Our sweet little gliders explored a new cage tonight while we cleaned their old one that will soon be the travel cage! I need to make a cage set of fleece for this cage, a toy is being made by a wonderful women who makes sugar glider toys and I hope to soon get it and put it in this cage as well. The white food containers will be taken out and the wooden perches will be as well as wood soaks up glider urine and you can never really get it clean.
They enjoyed jumping all over this cage and checking it out.
Petal specially loved the sugar glider “Ball Pit” I put together for them, that I hid meal worms in (Ewww) So much so that she would not let her love come play too. She hung out in this almost all evening and it was adorable watching her hold a puff ball in her paws and rub her face into it! I need to make sure to get another one of these for the new cage too!
There is a pet expo going on a city north of here and I am betting that the mill breeders are there with their gliders and bad information, poor pellet diet, and too small cages. (They sold cages in 2011 that had been toxic and killed many gliders)
Just yesterday there was a new glider owner who went to the boards because her new baby Joey that she had gotten from an expo mill breeder had passes away after only 7 days. She did everything they had told her too and refused to help her further when she lost her sweet little guy. She went to the board to figure out what maybe happened. The first advice was to put the poor thing in a plastic bag and into the fridge till she could take it to the vet to find cause of death. The mill breeder said they only refund before 72 hours and after that they will only replace for another $100. Who would want another Joey from them? The poor lady feels lied to by the company, by the you tube videos from the vet they have in their “pocket” that is sharing bad information and selling food that is far from natural for these animals and I can not blame her. She is thinking about getting another pair of gliders from a reputable breeder. I hope she does not use that crappy cage for them.
A glider cage should be at least. 32″ x 20″ x 36″ and the mill breeder ones they want you to buy on impulse are not even that big. They give excuses, and they warn not to talk to other glider owners even.
A big cage is important. So if your reading this and want a sweet little glider pair, please know they need a large cage and you normally can not buy them big enough at pet stores! (Never get them alone, it is not good for them!) You can find many online though that will work great though!
I got this one from Ebay. Better photos of it to come soon! Getting another one too!
