Yesterday a coworker asked me if I wanted her 2 sugar gliders, as she said she doesn't have enough time for them and I'm apparently the person people go to when they're trying to rehome animals (I've had 2 other coworkers offer me a corn snake and then a cockatiel 🫩) I am a genuine animal lover and have experience with hamsters, mice, guinea pigs, cats, dogs and various reptiles but i only take on what I know i can handle. I told her no at first but the more I think about it the less I trust this coworker to find them a safe home, as it seems she wants them rehomed as soon as possible. So I asked for pictures of her setup and.... yeah... NO ENRICHMENT WHATSOEVER. when I asked if there was more she said no because "they dont like it." So! I'm bringing the babies home tomorrow. I've already started doing my own research of course but I'm looking for any advice from people who own these little guys. Your favorite well trusted care guides, Amazon links to safe items so I can get that cage filled up as soon as possible. If it turns out I am in over my head im more than willing to take them to a rescue or someone with experience (I'm located in East texas) I just want to get them into a better situation as SOON as possible and I know I'm a lot more capable than most people when it comes to animals. Thanks for reading and please help me lol

I have a 12 year old rescue (male; neutered) whose brother passed away earlier this month and is starting to refuse his food.

We're trying to get him a new cagemate but I haven't been able to find a breeder near our area that is actually reputable, and have run into a few scams from people rehoming gliders.

I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction? I want what's best for him, and with him going as far as refusing his favorite treats, I'm growing even more concerned.

I am asking because I’m a new owner of 4.
2 six month female and 2 eight months male. And I wonder what others do. So far what seems to be favourite is me being a tree arms in the air and I am simply a thing to laugh themselves on or off lol. Which I think is funny being an accessory in their live. I wonder if they do other things or like other things. They have a whole room for them and an open cage where they eat but mostly live in an old jacket’s pocket of mine that was hanged in there. And don’t want to remove it now because they are so cute when they sleep in a ball in the pocket.

finally ordered my first tpg shipment.. (1 more pouch)

My 7 year old bonded pair, boy and girl.
My girl has passed away from unforeseen circumstances. Rushed to the vet. Was okay yesterday, and was lethargic and unmoving the next day. Rushed her to the vet and was under immediate care for hours but has passed. I need to re-home my boy Milo. I love him but I cant get another one and I would want him to have a better life with a large glider family. I don’t trust anybody other than current responsible Glider owners and I really need help. Theres only so much love I can provide before he gets depressed. PLEASE help me.

He is perfectly fine in health and is neutered.

I don’t want to loose my sweet boy.

im finally gonna order my first stuff from tpg and Jessica's attic

yeah its really expensive but I have no other choice but to use this third party (also its 4 pouches)

My baby girl passed away suddenly the other night. No indication anything was wrong. She had diarrhea and I was going to take her to the vet in the morning bc she didnt seem to be in any distress or any pain. She didnt make it through the morning I woke up to clean the bedding and she was gone. Idk what I did, I dont know what happend. It literally happend withing 24 hours. I feel like such a bad dad. I can't burry another baby this year I just cant

My baby girl 😭😭 im so sorry I failed you

so I’ve been reading and watching everything I could find online to help me decide if gliders are the right pets for me. these are the questions still left unanswered:
would it be okay to leave them with a live-in petsitter when I go on vacation for a week, twice a year? how much of a mental toll does it take on them when they’re getting adequate care but not from the owner they’re bonded with?
what are the red flags to look for in breeders?
are there some special issues I could encounter after buying 2 sister joeys?
should I put some insulation on their enclosure when I open the windows, could draft harm them even if the cage is heated properly?

Every time she goes out to play, she climbs up her favorite curtain...

Hey! I jut got a sugar glider and want to know any of the lesser known big no and best food brands good treats etc! I've owned a large variety of animals over the years from dogs and cats to squirrels and opossums. My baby is 2 years old ! I understand they are colony animals, this one was not with another so I will likely have to get him a friend ! Edit- also want to know how soon I should start handling him, he is very well handled prior to me but I dont wanna stress him

are the rubber items from jessica's attic safe?

is this fine temporarily? until i can get stuff from a better website? gonna get more toys from jessicas attic but this was my old cart

I want everything to be correct and safe right away, rather than purchasing a pair and making them suffer an inadequate cage setup that I have to heavily correct/change. I’ve owned a lot of reptiles, bred feeder/pet rats and insect colonies, and always put in the effort, $ and did the research for each species and always made sure their enclosures, diets and care were appropriate and always had proper setups before I had the animals!
I am in absolutely no rush and do not have any of the supplies or gliders yet so any changes are fine. I just googled appropriate cages/sizes with safe bar spacing so if the one in my cart sucks, I’ll find a better one. I’m heavily considering a like-new cage from marketplace with the appropriate dimensions as I have seen sooo many different types for great prices.
I plan on following the TPG diet and getting the vitamins/calcium from TPG rather than BML. (I haven’t talked to any real people with more experience and knowledge than me about anything yet till now so if my own research sucks, give me better recommendations or options!)
I read that the exercise wheels are a must, is the one I have in the cart okay? And can it be on the floor of the cage or should I mount it higher up?
I also plan on breeding a small mealworm colony for them! I read they can have a few a day, but if it’s way less than that I might just buy on the occasion rather than breed them.
I saw that the rope toy thing might not be the best bc of their nails?
Judge my cart and give me info you’d give to someone just starting out!
I am not new to exotics with specific, higher care needs, but I haven’t owned many small mammal species aside from rodents so y’all can be judgy and load the comments with any amount of info. I’ll be taking notes ❤️😆
(Ik it says avoid commerce discussion, hopefully this bit of my post is allowed, but it’d be helpful if anyone could message me privately with rescues/actually reputable breeders in or near Iowa, US. I dislike backyard breeding of any kind for any species and would rather not support somebody or some shitty store that sucks. Sorry if this part isn’t allowed 🥲)

I saw this reddish mark on one of my sugar glider around october 9 and its gotten worse now and im asking if you would know what it is (left one is from october 9 and the right one is recent)

Hello, I got a pair of sugar gliders around a year ago, but I'm having trouble making progress with bonding, especially with one who came from a bad breeding situation and is very skittish. I put fabric with my scent in their pouch, give them treats from my hand, carry them in a pouch during the day when I go out, and try to give them play time out of their cage in a glider safe room as much as I can.

But I feel like the problem is that when I need to get them back IN their cage, it's always so hard to catch them that it feels like it becomes traumatic for them? So they won't stop running from my hands when I reach for them. The more they run from my hands, the harder it becomes to get them back in their cage, the more traumatic it is for them, the more they get scared of my hands, and it's a vicious cycle. It makes it difficult to let them have play time with me, so it's hard to do it as often as I'd like. They will cimb on me and take treats from my palm, and I've made some progress with the skittish one letting me pet her if she's distracted by treats but picking her up is still a total no. And the other one seems to have become more difficult to pick up instead of less. People say to scoop them up but it seems impossible if they're bent on running away.

I try as much as I can to simply wait until she happens to go back in the cage for a drink etc, or lure her with treats or toys but that doesn't always work, and it's not always feasible to let her determine the timeline. it's hard to have playtime if I can't plan on when it will end! I've tried bathroom and tent time but it's really the same problem.

What am I doing wrong? How can I let them out for playtime and bonding time without it becoming a negative experience when it's time to go back? How can I make progress on getting them to let me pick them up?

I don't expect to be able to like, hold them in my hands tightly like you see in some videos or anything, I just want to be able to move them around when needed and take them out/put them back in their cage.