Sugar Gliders Make Fantastic Pets

Sugar Gliders are amazing pets. Some people find the most rewarding part of owning a glider is watching them grasp and play with their toys. Watching a sugar glider hold food and other objects in its tiny hands is very cute and fun to watch. Baby sugar gliders (called joeys) like to ride on their parents back, which is very cute and entertaining. Like people each sugar glider is different, they are very social and intelligent animals with distinct personalities. Sharing your house with a family of sugar gliders living with you is almost like a having a piece of the out back in your own home. Sugar gliders are very sensitive to light and should not be exposed to bright lights or sunlight as it may damage their eyes.. Gliders need human interaction and exercise outside of their cage everyday as they are very social, playful creatures and get bored easily.These pocket pets make a variety of sounds as a means of expressing themselves and communicating. Gliders may bark when lonely or bored, make a loud grinding type sound when they are scared, and a psst or hiss like sound as a means of locating other gliders. Male sugar gliders develop scent glands and a bald spot on top of their heads as they mature Female gliders are generally shyer than males and can be moody Sugar gliders make amazing pets. They are very curious, extremely intelligent, playful, loyal, relatively clean, and don’t require vaccinations.. They have a lifespan of about fifteen years in captivity which is also considered a positive aspect by many people, in the wild they generally only live six to seven years. Introduced into the United States approximately 20 years ago as domesticated house pets, Sugar Gliders are an extremely popular companion pet. The Sugar Glider is around 6.3 to 7.5 inches in length, with a tail almost as long as the body and almost as thick as a human thumb, and weighs between 3 to 5.3 oz. The fur is generally gray, with black and white patches on the underbelly and black or gray ears. Other color variations include leucistic and albino. The tail tapers only moderately and the last quarter of it is black, often with a dark tip. The muzzle is short and rounded. These animals make great pocket pets, are not difficult to breed where legal, love attention and human interaction, and are amazing physically as well as intelligent. Gliders (as the name suggests) can glide very long distances, recorded up to fifty five yards and manage to steer very well. They use there their back legs to push themselves away from the jump off point and when close to their landing push their legs down to parachute upwards landing with all four legs together. Sugar Gliders are truly a unique pet!