In Reply to: Cats and Sugar Gliders? posted by Aimee on February 05, 19100 at 14:46:54:

: I have two female cats and might get two female gliders. Dose anyone know if they would get along?

I feel very lucky. I have read many stories of where the cats have killed the family glider. I share my home with two cats. Both have been declawed but are still excellent mousers whenever a field mouse finds it's way into the house. I would never allow my cats and gliders near each other even supervised because both are quick and it only takes an instant. However I just have to share. Forgive me. One day our little dog, Killer, came to get me. He was trying to tell me that something was up. He insisted that I go into my room mates room which I really didn't want to do. It is like an obstical course in there. Anyway I did go in and I saw Sport the tom cat laying across the track of my room mates train layout. I tried to tell Killer that if I ran him off the track that he would just get back on it but Killer wouldn't leave the room. I kept looking and on a lower shelf there was Peake. One of our gliders and he was playing with the remote control. This control is very sensitive and if my room mate had left it on Peake would have run Sport over with an engine. Peake had not only escaped his cage but also my room. I asked Peake what he thought that he was doing and he looked up at me and glided to me as if to say we are playing trains, wanna play? I took him to his cage. Another time I could not find Peake anywhere. He is my escape artist. I came out of my room and saw the two cats on the back of my recliner. I said, "Sport, Tabitha, have you all seen Peake?" One of them jumped off the front of the recliner and one off of the back of it and there was Peake. He had been playing hide and go seek and hid right between both cats. That is what I mean by lucky. It only takes an instant for disaster to strike. Just because they did not harm my Peake doesn't mean that I couldn't have lost him forever simply because he not only escaped his cage but also my room. Just because you have bars between a glider and a cat does not ensure safety.

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