Hi! I've been around the forums as a lurker for a while, and I should probably come out of the woodworks and introduce myself!

As you can amuse from my username, my name is Sami. :) For a really long time I refused to get into sugar gliders, as adorable and fascinating they were. I was told they their were extremely high maintenance and hard to take care of. I've raised, bred, handfed, and endlessly doted on everything from dogs, cats, rats, chinchillas, hedgehogs, rabbits, mice, and even the all allusive Kinkajou. Back in July I started to look into gliders after my mother's urging to how cool they were, and I wanted to know what my mother was trying to get into.

I was pleasantly surprised how easy they were to take care of. The first website I stumbled across, yes was the PPP care guide. I thought it was a LITTLE too good to be true. However, being the polished and very good researcher I am, I prefer looking into forums such as this, and to be honest once I came in I never left. This place has become my bible for glider care!

I got my first glider from a petstore about.... two hours from me. I had three gliders coming to me; it was arranged from a breeder that I would get two girls. One was 4 months, the other just OOP. The glider from the store was a little male, just 9 weeks old. He was cute, curious, despite being a little crabby. However, not even 24 hours after I got him, he died on me due to a wound on the outside of his right wrist. I was devastated and I felt like a terrible glider mommy. :( I didn't know that he had a wound, and the local vet just told me to give him wound care, rinsing it with a saline rinse 2x's a day and to put neosporin on it. His little monster hand was all puffy, and I've affectionately called him Hulk. Lol!

We fought with the store for a replacement, their guarantee covered 3 days, and 24 hours was DEFINITELY under those 3 days. They claimed it was MY fault, and that they would reduce it half price. This is also the same place that claims that sugar gliders don't have bones, that their bodies are made up of completely cartilage(I haven't found scientific evidence to support this, so I think that's a load of bull). I cut my losses of $250 and got my female a week or so later.

This little female is just too much.

She discovered my conure's hanging playstand.

She came to me named Kaluha, at 4 months, but once I get her 8 week old sister this friday, I think I'm going to be renaming them to something more appealing to me. He has bonded to me in such a way that she calls to me every night at the same time that I've affetionately called, "food time." I take her from her cage and walk downstairs to the kitchen, where we pick out her fruit for the night, as well as her daily liquid diet. Just tonight she decided to steal a grape off the counter and run off with it and hid in my hair while she ate it!

She goes everywhere with me in her bonding pouch. Class, babysitting, store, or even just to sit with me on my computer, if I offer her the pouch, she'll gladly run in as quick as possible.

I'm very happy I have gotten to take care of one of these creatures, and I just CAN'T WAIT to get more!!

 

Samibec
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