Today my girlfriend and I picked up our first sugar glider.
We've been researching for months and were very excited.
Our little girl's name is Maggie and she's adorable!
However, she looks a good deal younger than I expected her to.
The fur on her tail still conforms to the shape of her tail,
which is one of the signs that a glider is too young to be
taken from its mother, according to Caroline McPherson.
Our breeder said that Maggie had been weaned from her mother
only this morning. I myself didn't want to pay the $4 to get
into the stupid pet show (four dollars!! can you imagine!?) so
I didn't get to speak to this woman or see the glider before
my girlfriend picked her up.
To make a long story short, she makes a noise quite often that
we thought was crabbing at first.. now we think it's barking,
but we can't tell for sure. C.M.'s book suggests that "barking"
is a calling out to other gliders to find their location. I
hope this is the case and that she is only adjusting to her
new and familiar surroundings after her first day away from mom.
Worst case scenario -- my girlfriend proposed the idea, which will
probably keep me up tonight, that it sounds disturbingly like
the glider is having trouble breathing.. short, ragged, raspy
breaths in her throat...she even seems to do it while sleeping.

Please, any replies and advice would be appreciated..
Thanks for putting up with the lengthy post.
Happy to have joined the club.

Wes, Gabrielle & Maggie

Follow Ups:

• Sound page Mary 18:20:22 04/17/2000 (0)
• Re: Finally, a proud glider owner. But is she crabbing...? Bourbon 12:30:11 04/17/2000 (0)
• Re: Finally, a proud glider owner. But is she crabbing...? T.J. 11:44:58 04/17/2000 (0)