I received 5 sugar gliders (3 cages) today from the nearby wildlife shelter. They will accept abandons directly or from the various animal control facilities around the area and then I eventually get hold of many of them for inspection, care and rehoming.
They almost never get the sexes right so I run them through a grueling hand inspection. I had a very hard time with this last batch determining their sexes. Turns out that each pair was m/f but the males had each received the typical "snip" neuter which leaves behind no trace of obvious maleness. The remaining male "area" looks very much like a young female pouch and can be rather misleading. So I say that the only way to truly tell sex these days is to open the pouch. If you cant, then it is prolly a snip neutered male.
So it is a half blessing here. I received neutered males for the very first time ever; YAY! But this time around I was hoping for all females so I could try to build an all female misfit colony to experience what that would be like. I have heard stories... I wont split the m/f pairs, so I guess I'll just have to rehome them as such.
This leaves me with the single female. Shes sweet. I believe I received her at the beginning of HLP syndrome, but shes getting all the nutrients and exercise that she needs now so she's looking better. Id love to keep her for myself but I keep enough cages already and I just dont have one to merge her into.
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