Hello everyone!! I am a new member onto this website. I'm also a fairly new mommie when it comes to the sugar glider world!

I adopted a little boy on December 7, 2012. (greatest day ever!) I think he was a bit older than what they told me. They said 9 weeks, but he was rather a large little boy for 9 weeks. He crabbed a lot in the beginning, but now we only crab at each other sometimes. I don't think he had any real human interaction before I got him, and this may be why we're taking longer to bond. Leaps and bounds have been made since that first week, but I don't feel like we're still very close to bonding.

We do tent time often, which he loves, but I know not as often as I should. Everyday for about three or four hours, he hangs out on my chest in his bed pouch (which is shaped like a banana peel.)

I recently had him neutered because I was told this MAY help with the bonding process, and make him a little bit more calm. That was three weeks ago, and I think I'm starting to see results from that. My poor little baby now has a urinary infection, (probably a side effect of the neutering) but he's on medication and doing fine.

Now, I'm sure to recieve MANY posts about this, but I do ONLY have my little boy Reid. I am in the process of speaking to an owner about getting a little girl from them. I know they need to be in groups, being colony animals and all. And I've done some research on the process of the 30 day seperation for medical reasons and parasite testing on both of them.

I have seen some things on here about size mattering. He would be more than 6 months older than her. Is this going to be a problem? Being neutered, is he still going to try to mate with her, and in turn possibly hurting her?
I know I have to take my time with scent intros before face to face intros can happen.

Will getting a little girl also help with Reid bonding to me? If they bond with each other, and the little girl bonds with me, will he see that bonding with me won't be the end of the world?



Again, a million questions, but I'm a new mommie, nervous, concerned, over-protective, worry-wart and want to be a mommie of these little angels for many years to come.

I'm glad you are getting him a buddy....I think as long as they aren't too different in size it should be ok...like a 10 week oop joey with a 3 year old glider if they are too different then maybe the smaller one will grow some during quarantine...I'm sure someone who knows exactly what your looking for will be along soon....

So when he gets a friend in my experience through many others on her and my own he should become much more out-going and have a happier demeanor. This will give you the opportunity to get to know him more and him not having a friend is probably what is holding you guys back.

If his girlfriend is going to be a Joey then give her some time to grow so that their sizes are comparable.

They will still have sex even if he is nuetered. This is a great reason as to why she needs to wait and grow.

The time spent in a bonding pouch does not really count as time spent. During bonding pouch time the glider(s) are likely asleep and getting poor sleep at that. The bonding pouch is a tool to have them be near you but in a way that is comfortable for them. They get use to your giant bodies movement and scent which will hopefully help them during real free range play. So many people believe the bonding pouch is sufficient hangout time, it really isn't and they need to get out of the cage lets say 4 nights a week for 1-2 hours at minimum. For a new bonding glider this should be increased to possibly 5-6 nights a week for 3 hours and preferably in a close environment: tent, glider safe bathroom, closet, yadayada. To me it seems so people spend to much time with their gliders in a bonding pouch and the worst is when they lock them in the little bag during the hours they would be awake; evening, dawn, night, early morning. Both of these practices (forcing them and 12/7 wear) is a negative impact in the bonding experience and the gliders will likely be super pumped to find ways to evade you.


And Welcome!

So happy that I am getting such great advice! Thanks!!


Like I said, I know that part of why we are not bonded yet is my fault. I don't enable tent time enough. I have given him a break from that because of the uninary infection. Should I tent time with him anyway, and sanatize everything afterward like crazy?

The quarentine process is 30 days for medical reasons, but what I'm hearing from you is I should make it longer so she can grow some more? I have a "travel" size cage that he started with before he got his "man cave." I was just planning on using the slightly smaller one for her for a little while.

I live in a one bedroom apartment, and I've heard they should really be in seperate rooms. Since I don't have that option, can I just have them around corners and out of sight of each other?

I'm a teacher and I was hoping to get the little girl here in a few weeks so I have all summer with them for quarentine and bonding with each other and me.