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There are many reasons to neuter your male glider, some of the most common 
reasons are:
  
  
1. They are generally less stinky. Not all gliders owners experience this a
pungent smell but some of them many do. To keep their odor down neuter them
before their scent glands have time to develop (about 4.5-6 months out of
pouch). pouch) or a neuter may be done to reduce smell.
  
2. Some males have been noted that they are calmer less aggressive towards the
handler and are more well behaved toward other animals. cage mates afterwards.
   
3. The bald spot and other scent glands on the male goes go away; however, if
the male marks often it may reappear. This means that the bald spot might not go
away, depending on how often the male marks
   
4. Babies : Female gliders can have babies in her pouch, be pregnant pregnant,
and have a baby outside of pouch simultaneously. Having a glider with joey's can
be complicating, sometimes the mother will abandon the joeys leaving the owner
to care for it, which is no easy task. Pregnancy is taxing on the body, keeping
your animal as pet only will likely lengthen her life span.
  
Some reasons that some people may not think to neuter a glider:
  
5. A male will sometimes, especially if he is absent of a female, try to please
himself often he can obtain overactive glands, thus leading to an infection that
will be expensive to diagnose, treat, and will result in the end a neuter is
still necessary. necessary neuter.
 
6. They will bark less at night.
  
7. If a non sexual mature female is placed with a sexually mature male and that
male is not neutered there is a more likely chance that the male will try to
forcibly mate with the female. The female when may then have babies before they
can really handle them and a rejected or cannibalized joey is commonly found. If
the male is neutered he may try to forcibly mate with the female but there will
be no rejected joey, joey.
  
8. Another reason to lessen occurrences of forced mating is to lower the
female might show aggression to the male afterwards.
  
   probability of mating wounds.
  
== See Also ==
  * [http://www.sugarglider.com/gliderpedia/index.asp?Neutering#preview
Neutering]
  * LaserNeuter
  * AfterTheNeuter
  * [http://www.sugarglider.com/gliderpedia/index.asp?Risks%20of%20Breeding
Risks of Breeding]

 



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