Hi, I was wondering if any suggie owners had hard time to rent house or apartment with them? I got my babies we're already in renting town house and the least is coming up and looking for house to rent ring ht now...
but should we claim Sugar gliders as pet like dogs and cats??
I have 3 small dogs and that is already harder for us to find rent house... my husband think we don't have to claim as pet like dogs.. since they live in cage but they are still exotic pets right?/

any suggestions ?? thank you.

I would still claim them. A pet deposit is a pet deposit, and your potential leasor should be aware of what you have, cage or no cage. Rental properties can range from no pets at all to whatever you have bring it, to a deposit per pet, and anything in between. I would suspect many leasors do not know what a sugar glider is, so it might fascilitate your search to explain their needs as being similar to a bird's for them to grasp the size of the cage and potential size of the mess. Much easier to be up-front about it than to have an eviction notice later for violating terms of lease. If I were leasing property I'd be much more concerned about damages a dog could do to a property than a pair of gliders. Gliders don't rip up carpet, make huge stains, chew doorframes to shreds, or tear up fences. (Not that your dogs do but I've seen the damages that can happen.)

We rented a house while we were building and I flat out asked the property manager if we needed to pay a deposit for them and she told me we only needed to worry about the dog and cat. I tried to be really conscious of the carpet and walls around their cage especially and had the floors cleaned and walls painted when I moved out. It was never an issue, but I wanted to make sure they knew so there weren't any issues later on.

Absolutely tell a potential landlord about your gliders. It's a lot better to be passed up for a lease than to be evicted after you're settled in. I would expect any landlord who will accept dogs will accept gliders too, and if he doesn't know what they are, bring him here and let him look at our photo albums.

My opinion would be to claim them up front, educate the landlord about their care and show pictures of your cage and the gliders.

Being honest up front and allowing the landlord the opportunity to think it over is the best policy. This way when you do rent and the lease is signed no one can make you get rid of your precious babies before the lease is up for renewal.

Yep, I agree it would be better to be up front about it. Easier to deal with before you move than after.

I have had my suggies in a rental house and an apartment. I was very up front with them, they asked if I had pets and I explained that I had sugar gliders which were small animals that lived in a cage. For most places I checked with they did not count small animals for pet deposits because they were mostly worried about the damage/messes that could be done by larger animals.

Hi every one thank you for great advices!!! please wish me a luck!
Thank you

mtcoco