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Message: In Reply to: Re: Two Gliders? posted by Sugarglider3 on August 05, 1998 at 09:09:22:
Well, yes I have jumped and even apologized when I was wrong, however; this time no apology is owed by me. You have started posting and asking peoples opinions on a public board. When you get a response you really don't like to hear you jump both feet, You must remember that each post is someones OPINION. The idea is to get different peoples opinion and make your decision from there. Now I must say (knowing I will offend some people this time) that your responses are showing your age. If everytime someone posts something with the word teen in, you jump. does that mean you have a problem with being a PRE-TEEN? We all on this board love the species and we care very much what happens to each and every one of them. Some of us have had our gliders for years, and many times we are in total awe as to posts made by people that have not even had a chance to learn to grow as we have with our gliders. Reasearch is very important to the preparation of getting a glider. But once you get it, things will look a little easier. Reasearching the past posts even the achives lets you see what owners have gone through to get their glider to where they are. It is like driving a car. You can read all the manuals, and hear about accidents, get into the car and think it won't happen to you. These things people write about are FACTS, they are things that happen in real life. Your getting upset with everyones posting in answering your questions makes me and several others wonder what is going to happen to that glider if you find out he isn't what you want him to be, when he bites you and I mean hard, so hard that his teeth are stuck all the way to the bone, how are you going to respond? What will happen if you can't get him to stop biting? Are you going to pass him on to another? As Betsy said the breeder shouldn't tell you to get another glider, unless that breeder has reason to believe that he is out of control or that you won't or can't spend the time needed to work with him. I am experienced with gliders, and I have heard the horror stories of getting a glider and having an aggressive one killing it. Some people have lost bonded, loving, sweet gliders to gliders that they were told just wasn't wanted anymore. Not necessarily biting or aggressive. There is a reson THIS male has been passed from person to person and given away as free. I know of a 15 year old that took on the responsibility of getting an aggressive glider for free, but he was well aware of what he was in for. He had already been around and worked with gliders for awhile, he has a support unit that he can call on, and most of all he had the PATIENCE and understanding to work with him. He is a homeschooled teen that allows him the time needed to spend with him. We are not against ALL kids getting gliders, there are many kids out there that spend a lot of time and making many sacrafices for their gliders. Then you have some teens and adults that seen them in a book or magazine or they seen someone elses that were already bonded, and they think that is the way it is going to be for them. They don't take the time to read and learn to expect the worst. And be prepared for that. Too many times it is the "I WANT" rather than "Can I do this for 15 years". You need to get off of the "ME" thing and get on, what the posts were actually saying. Everything is not a slam to you. It is very hard to get the time to write to people who really want help, when we are all so busy defending ourselves, This will be the last post I write to you. If you really wanted help you would heed what is said and give others a chance to post as well, but if you are going to JUMP each time someone says something you take personal then fewer people will waste their time with you.
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