Sugar Gliders as Pets : How to Bond with Your Sugar Glider

Hi, my name is Elizabeth, and I'm speaking on behalf of Expert Village. We're talking about bonding with your Sugar Glider. To bond with your Sugar Glider, there's a lot of different methods. One of the number one ways is to just carry your Sugar Glider around. Obviously this little guy is fairly bonded with me; he will pretty much stay with me, he's not scared, he's calm and remaining on my body. More or less the way to achieve this is to have this animal with you for as many hours during their sleep time and some hours during their wake time. During the day you carry this animal on your body, they sell special pouches that you can carry them next to your body. You talk to them slowly, offer them treats; you can use things like meal worms, little yogurt drops. If you have a particularly scared or aggressive Sugar Glider and you can't reach in to touch them you can use a little bit of honey on your finger. I don't generally recommend using simple sugars, but when you're just bonding with this animal and using it just as a treat it is fairly safe to use in small quantities. Depending on how scared your Sugar Glider is when you get it, even babies, it can take anywhere from 4 weeks to 3 months to calm down and be really comfortable with you. A few other things that you can do, is you can take clothes that you've worn the day before that are dirty and place them over the animals cage while their active during the night. It will help them become accustom to your smell and they will start to recognize your smell as home and safe. Be careful to wash your hands prior to picking up your Glider, sometimes washing away your human smells on a scared Glider it seems to calm them some. Or you can rub your hands on the outside of their bag so you smell a little bit more like a Sugar Glider. Those precautions don't generally need to be taken after the animal is comfortable with you, but when you are just getting to know and bond with your Sugar Glider you?re going to want to take some of these steps.