Education

How Do We Train Our Humans?; Keeping Sugar Gliders Warm; Tasting Bites; Coconut Oil

Dear Arnold: How Do We Train our Humans? by Arnold (with a little help from Lisa) Arnold Ole Boy, We’ze hope ya can hep us. We’ze just moved to a...

Taking Sugar Gliders To Work ========================= by Lisa Hi Lisa, Just a quick update on the bonding progress. I don't know if this is good progress or not but here goes... Every evening I separate them from the one pouch into two then spend a couple hours just petting them in the pouch and holding them in my hand (while in the pouch). They will take treats from my hand in the cage but still run away from me when I come towards the cage. I bought a small tent...

Sick Gliders Can Be Gentle, Injured Gliders Can be Grumpy ===================================== by Lisa Growing up around a lot of animals, I remember being warned often as a child to be careful around sick or injured animals. They may just turn on you! This makes some sense to me. I know that I am personally getting over a rather nasty sinus infection and if I were to be completely honest with you, I would have to admit that I had some grumpy moments during this episode. So if we get grumpy...

Thrive Versus Survive ================ by Lisa I hear continually from people who are confused and bewildered by the massive information overload one can experience when researching gliders on the internet. Everyone seems to have an idea on diet, cage size, environment, colony size, etc. But as I look at all of the different opinions and viewpoints, it seems most of these opinions fall into two major categories. There is the concept of survive - keep the animal alive, really a human-centric approach of minimal effort. Then there is the concept...

Greetings Glider Groupies, Glider Newbies and Glider Wanna-bes! Welcome to the August 2009 edition of the GliderVet News. I am very excited about this month’s newsletter! Over five years ago we were asked to participate in a study on sugar glider nutrition. The study has come and gone and the results were published back in 2006. This month we'll introduce you to the lead scientist in this effort, provide you a link to the study, and wrap up by introducing a new food product developed after the study. This product...

Animal Nutrition Experts and USDA Vets

Hi folks. Arnold the glider here. Meet the Nutrition Experts and USDA Vets that provide advice to us on sugar glider care issues. Not only do they help the Lisa tree with me and my glider friends, but sometimes they write about sugar glider care for the GliderVet newsletter! Animal Nutrition Experts Dr. Dierenfeld received her PhD in animal nutrition from Cornell University and has an impressive track record in both the business and academic sides of animal nutrition. For example, while with the St. Louis Zoo, she assisted in...

Glider Care

Sugar gliders do indeed make extraordinary pets. It is not, however, the best pet for every household. Gliders, like all exotic pets, have particular needs specific to their species. They...

Gliders with other Pets, Neutering

Keeping Sugar Gliders with Other Pets By Arnold (with a little help from Debbie) Hi folks, Debbie here. We often get asked how sugar gliders get along with other pets...