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Subject: Re: sugar gliders and their diet
Posted by Jim on September 17, 1998 at 21:54:44:

In Reply to: sugar gliders and their diet posted by Jessi on August 30, 1998 at 17:45:23:

: I am very interested in getting a sugar glider. I have been reading a lot about them. What kinda confuses me is their diet. What do you feed them ?

Sugar Gliders need a wide variety of foods everyday. Most people give 1 or 2 different foods a day. They actually need several different foods and it is best if it is slurried togather. This way every bite they take, they are getting a variety of vitamins & minerals. We have been raising bottle-fed babies for 5 years. My wife even wrote the first book on Gliders*****On Sale Now for $6.95---Reg. $9.95. We also make and sell a mix that has Fruits, Nuts & Honey in an applesauce consistancy that has Colloidal Minerals, Organically grown fruit juice powder and powdered vitamins & minerals. It's called our "Supreme Blend". Vegtables can be added to this mix, blended in would be the best. We also sell a fruit, nut, veg. & seed mix called our "Sm. Animal & Bird Medley", which should be in a bowl for them to eat at anytime, along with a premium cat food like Iams or Science Diet.

:HOw often? How much? and When?

Gliders have a metabalism like humans, they need a variety of foods to obtain all the different vitamins & minerals on a regular basis. But what happens in a lot of cases is that people feed what is easy to feed, foods full of preservatives. Our Supreme Blend is home canned with no perservatives, yet still easy to feed. It works wonderful. It used to take me 2 hours or so to chop, mix blend, puree' all of our gliders food. So I know what it is to do this every night. It is not easy to keep the nutritional value up in the gliders. Gliders are not an easy animal to take care of, but with a little common sense and a love of animals, these little pets can be well worth the extra effort.

:I have also read that they are nocternal. I read that they can be trained to sleep at night and stay up in the day. Wouldn't that be unhealthy for them??

When you get one of our bottle-fed babies they are use to getting up throughout the day to eat and if you keep up this practice through treats and cuddle time, their internal clock will automatically change with no adverse effects.

:CAn they be litter box trained?

Not really but through time they will climb off you to go potty unless startled. But this will take time. But even if it never happenes, the bonding you have with a bottle-fed baby will be well worth the little accidents. If this offends you, then maybe pets are not something you should look into, because all animals go potty, somewhere or another.

: and my final question can they be neutered or spayed?? thank you for you time!!

Yes they can, but you need an experienced vet that works on sm. animals.

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Jim of WORLDWIDEPETS

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