HELP! yesterday I notice a little read string coming out of my 1 un neutered male suggie named mango today I had a friend over and we notice a red string hanging from my other suggie diesel I live with my parents and my mom is a human physical therapist so she knows her way around body parts she put on some gloves and pulled gently at the string (we had thought it was dead tissue) when she pulled it out a bit more we had realized it was internals! we are very scared about them we have him back in the cage now but the worse thing is before we have looked for vets and there are no exotic vets near us PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! :"(

the inards have retracted we think the cause might be because he was pooping quite hard

That's not his innards, that's his man parts tell Mom not to pull it anymore and research glider male genitalia, they don't look like human parts.

I'm sure you all were pretty worried and it's not the first time someone panicked and pulled on it to see what it was

It should go back in all on it's own and as long as its pink/red all is fine. If it ever looks black that is when there is a problem and it will need amputated.

I don't know it looked like inards its hard to explain

Lol poor Lil guy he must feel a bit violated. Leela mentioned to look it up. I'd do that if I were you lol I can't stop laughing they have "bifurcated genitalia". It's totally normal but I wouldn't pull on it. Lol

I had a pretty good giggle over it last night too lol I'll see if I can post a pic of one, last time I tried the site wouldn't let me

These are normal, healthy looking man parts...

This is NOT healthy and is about to be amputated. Amputated genitalia on males is not that uncommon. They have more reproductive procedures done than females do.

Females reproductive systems are very complex and spaying or any surgical procedures on reproductive organs are rarely done on them because it's so invasive and damaging. There has to be a medical reason for a surgical procedure to be done on reproductive organs on a female like cancer and even then it's debated on very heavily before doing it.


But males, have neuters done routinely and genitalia amputations almost as commonly. They recover just fine usually, and continue to have a thriving happy life.

Things to watch for , discoloration, out for extended periods of time with out being retracted, severe dryness. If it's dry it can get stuck while out, you can use some Ky water soluble gel on it to help it go back in. Buttttt if there is any dark discoloration he needs to goto a vet.
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0k thnx but I had only saw 1of the things

and it was coming out of his but hole

Gliders only have one hole called a cloaca

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Originally posted by JLR

Gliders only have one hole called a cloaca

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ok thnx good to know

I sure am glad for topics like this. I'm still in my research/collecting necessities phase, before I purchase my little fuzz-butts. Would save me some money on a vet visit for sure.