Differences for “ Bad Diet Before And After Pictures ”

  
original thread: 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29199&whichpage=1 
  
Before (on a pellet diet) and after (no pellets). Unfortunately, it was too 
late by the time I got him and he only lived 5 months with me. Per the 
necropsy, the damage to his liver was irreversible. All I did was prolong his 
life by a few months.
  
This was the day I got him:
  
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/2997/sugars%20055.jpg
  
This was about 2 months later:
At the time, I was feeding 25/25/50 but I feed LGRS Suggie Soup now.
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/2997/sugars%20096.jpg
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Pellets:
  
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/8396/DSC00403.JPG
  
HPW:
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/8396/DSC00426.JPG
  
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This is Trinity shortly after I got her about two months ago. Not sure what she 
was fed. She had lots of cracking in fur and flat tail, bad BO.
  
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/9174/100_1691.JPG
  
This is Trinity now.
  
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/9174/100_1715.JPG
  
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Here is a picture of Chester when I first got him in May. The people before me 
only had him a short time, but they were feeding him pellets, fruit fluff and 
cheetohs. 
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/8557/Chester%205-15-10%20003.JPG
  
Here is a picture of Chester I just took an hour ago. He's been on the HPW diet 
since I got him.
  
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/8557/Chester%20and%20Dixie%20Sept%204%20004.JPG
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Elodie on the 25/25/50 diet
 
Elodie on BML rehab. She's even whiter now that she's on Priscilla's, but I 
haven't been able to borrow my mom's camera to take pics since the above pic 
was taken.
 NOTE:unable to get pictures account banned. pictures are still in original 
thread.
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http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/9574/016.JPG
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/9574/Kiwi%20on%20cup.JPG
  
Not as dramatic but definitely a difference. Kiwi was brown with flat tail. Now 
she is gray with big fluffy tail.
They were on pellets & now they are on Pricilla's Diet.
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v682/Tevina/Untitled-1-7.jpg
  
This is my little boy, Suggie. I acquired him from a woman who kept him on a 
diet of fruits, pellets and parrot biscuits. A day after I got Suggie, I went 
online, ordered his rep-cal vitamins and got him started on BML asap. Now about 
half a year later, he's got a healthy, non-cracked coat!
  
Aussie was fed cat food, pellets and nuts... She occasionally got fruits or 
veggies
  
This her then
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/7296/19657_315857781876_516906876_3443056_3472505_n.jpg
  
And this is her now on BML with lots of mealies and fresh foods.
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/7296/SAM_0197.JPG
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/7296/SAM_0158.JPG
  
Then there is Nova.
 
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/7296/PICT0023.JPG
  
I unfortunately cannot provide an updated photo's, she passed away, but I feel 
it's important to put her in the thread. 
  
She was fed pellets, nuts and whatever else they had. She suffered from 
long-term malnutrition and developed a protein allergy. There was nothing I 
could do to save her that I didn't do but the damage was done. 
  
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http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/8909/all%20021.JPG
  
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/8909/all%20032.JPG
  
http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/Photos/8909/all%20044.JPG
This is Faith she fought very hard to make it but sadly did not she spent the 
last 7 days of her life with me after living for more than a year being fed 
pellets & hamster food and also had Gardia and HLP she had a bald spot 
above her eye from lord knows what as well as part of her ear was missing! 
Faith was a fighter through all the fluid injections the antibiotics liquid 
calcium etc. but she lost her battle after learning what love was!
  
  
  
  
  : {DB}__**Stories**__{/DB} 
  
  
{R}·{/R}All four of my first group looked like that. After I got them home 
and compared them to gliders on here I was really mad. But it all turned out 
good they are all gaining weight and all are fluffy butts. I can even feel more 
body heat coming off them now. When they first came home and would jump on my 
back I could not tell where they were. Now when they jump on me I know they are 
there.
  
{R}·{/R}I am just in shock to see how much moe has changed since he has 
been on the priscilla diet. 4 years on pellets and now just 3 weeks on the 
right stuff has made such a difference, still has a way to go but a huge diff 
will have to post before and afters soon 
  
  
{R}·{/R}        I had two males I rescued from pelleted diets.
One was on pellets, blueberries, peanut butter, nuts, and superworms. When he 
came to me, I didn't know how he normally acted so there was no way of me 
telling something was off about him. By the time I noticed, it was too late and 
he was gone in less than an hour. He died after a little under 4wks in my care, 
though I have a feeling that he may have had other health problems as well. A 
necropsy could not be done because my boyfriend had already buried him by the 
time it was mentioned to me.
  
The other was on just pellets. He had a total of 4 cagemates who all died off 
one by one until they finally decided to re-home this one. He was in my home 
for 3wks. I thought he was doing great, always left his bowl polished clean. My 
mom walked in the room to find him dead sprawled out in his favorite sleeping 
spot (I had just seen him [alive] 2 hours prior). He was sent to Val for a 
necropsy, but due to a delivery delay, the dry ice melted and he decomposed 
quickly. Definite cause of death is unsure, but he was fed nothing, but pellets 
for 4 years of his life. 
  
My current male was at one point fed pellets until he was rescued by an 
acquaintance of mine who then put him on BML. I didn't see how poor of a 
condition he was in then, but he looks fine now. He's is in my care living 
happy and healthy with my female Sweetness.
  
I am sad to say I have no pictures of either of the rescued males in the poor 
condition they were.
  
{R}·{/R}        I don't have pics of my guys to compare, but they are all 
looking better. 
My first glider was fed hamster food and hummingbird nectar. When I found out I 
was horrified. I had contacted this guy through craigslist and he just said he 
had food and gliderade left. Theres a petstore near where he lived that sells 
gliders and feeds a terrible 'insectivore' diet (you could see bits of corn in 
it) and gliderade. I'm pretty sure thats where he got him, and decided he 
didn't want to pay more for real gliderade and opted for the sugar and dye mix 
that is hummingbird nectar, and cheaped out with hamster food instead of the 
insectivore diet. He also lived in a tiny bird cage with nothing but a pouch in 
it. He didn't even have a water bottle! It's one thing to be ignorant of what 
an animal needs, and another to not care.
Surprisingly, he had really, really nice fur, and still does. Fluffy and full 
and soft. But his underbelly was completely yellow. The guy only had him for 4 
months. His belly fur is a lot better now, about 6 months later, but still has 
a bit of a yellow tinge to it. 
My two girls I got from a woman who rescued them. For the first 4 years of 
their lives, they were fed beans and baby food (and who knows what else). They 
lived in a tiny cage in a back room with no toys or anything. The woman I got 
them from had had them for about a year, on Leadbeater's and 
fruits/veggies/mealworms/crickets the whole shebang. They wouldn't touch 
anything she offered other than fruit or chicken baby food for months. It took 
them a long time to eat fruit on a regular basis with me too. Their fur is a 
little cracked even now, but it's improved a lot since I've gotten them, and I 
can't imagine what they looked like when they were first rescued!
  
Last month or so, I contacted a woman on craigslist about a cage she had. I was 
looking for a travel cage for my gliders and the one she had seemed to be a 
good size (30" tall 18" wide/deep). I got to her house and she tells 
me she had two gliders living in the cage, and that they had mysteriously died. 
She then offers me the rest of their food and gliderade. She hands me half a 
can of Sunseed Sugar Glider formula and 1/3 a jar of gliderade. When I picked 
up the cage it was dark out, so it looked okay. When I got home, I saw that it 
was covered with rust head to toe, not just thin surface rust but deep rust 
that had eaten under a lot of the coating. I know in this case the gliders 
(assumed since they died of unknown causes) condition has to do with more 
general husbandry issues, I just think it's worth mentioning. I didn't think 
much of what she said at first, but looking back I was like Oy, another person 
taught by a petstore that shouldn't sell animals
  
{R}·{/R}I'm still crying as I write this....and feeling so lucky that my 
babies came to me in WAY better health than some of the gliders in this thread. 
My girls came to me with minimal cracking, my boy (approx 1y/o) had some 
cracking and his tail was a little skinny/flat. Mr was fed mostly pellets and 
some fruits/veggies, the girls were being fed a combo of baby food, fresh 
fruits/veggies and special kitty cat food from walmart. After a week in my care 
(Kazkos diet) Mr's tail is filling in nicely and his fur looks so much more 
plush/sleek now. The girls have been in my care for about a month and show 
MAJOR improvements. I soooo wish I'd thought to do before and after pics with 
them. They were 3, 4 and 5 y/o when I brought them home. At first we could tell 
them apart at a glance, Belle was by far the largest, Bree by far the smallest, 
Bess was just a bit smaller than Belle. Just 3-4 weeks in my care and the 
cracks have virtually disappeared, tails are fluffier etc. But the most amazing 
difference is how they've filled out/grown, they are all virtually the same 
size now. The easiest way to tell them apart now is by personality. I was 
shocked at so much growth in older animals. So much so that I called the lady I 
got them from (not the original owner) to see if she could verify their ages 
for me. I'm still not convinced she was told the truth by the orginal owner. I 
could understand if it was just a case of them filling out a bit more, I could 
almost believe that's the case with Belle, but Bess and particularly Bree 
clearly show a marked size difference. Bree's head even looks larger/broader!
  
{DG}**NOTE**{/DG} things that need to be added the videos and replace links 
with pictures. if anyone can help organize this a little better that would be 
great!