New Product Announcement: Original Bonding Potion ===================================== By Lisa You might not know this about SunCoast, but we are not the kind of people who refuse to take calls from glider owners who did not purchase from us, and we always try to help people the best we can. Many new glider keepers are intimidated; …
Temperament Changes in Breeding Sugar Gliders ============================== By Lisa Hi Lisa! I have finally finished reading ALL of the GliderVet newsletters and I was right about them answering most of my questions. I still have a few though so I’ll start with one of my most important. I read in the newsletters that sometimes when gliders have …
Fun Animal Videos by Lisa I get some of the coolest links sent to me of some really awesome animal videos and I’m sure you do too. Most of them are not about sugar gliders, so I never really thought they would be appropriate to share in the newsletter. As video websites like You Tube …
Why Do Gliders Hiss? =============================== by Lisa Just yesterday I got a call from a brand new Glider Mama who was concerned that she heard her gliders hissing. She had read on the internet that when gliders hiss, it means they are constipated. In my observations, this could be true or false. Sugar gliders that …
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 new house and thar’s sum new two leggers here that we dunno. Dey constantly staring at us and chasing roun our new habitat with …
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 …
Diabetics Smell Like Fruit by Lisa I had an interesting visit with a married couple coming to pick up their first sugar gliders and a thought occurred to me during that meeting. The wife is a nurse, so as the thought came, I had someone quite knowledgeable in the health field that could enlighten me …
Sugar Glider Product Testing ===================================== by Lisa Product safety is a philosophical pursuit that we take very seriously here at SunCoast. Testing products is something that goes on year round here at the Sugar Shack. For every 15 products we test, only about 1 makes the cut. In order to make it on our website, …
Feeding Greek Yogurt =============== Over the last couple of years, the amount of grocery shelf space devoted to yogurt seems to reflect an evolution in the yogurt industry. What used to be just a few choices and a few flavors has exploded to such a wide variety of yogurt choices. As such things develop in …
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 …