What do you need to know about sugar gliders?
Normal sugar gliders groom their soft fur regularly but if this routine grooming turns into excessive over-grooming you’ll be able to notice. You may notice bald patches on your glider begin to appear, tufts of fur in the cage, and eventually chewing of various body parts including their own tail, feet, hands, arms, and even genitalia.
What can I give my sugar glider for treats?
You can start to offer a few treats after the first day, such as dried fruit or freeze-dried vegetables. You can even put baby food, applesauce, or plain yogurt on your finger. Offer it to the glider to lick, and let it come to you. It may not come over in the first couple of days or even weeks.
Do you have to amputate a sugar glider?
Yes. Your glider may go from pulling hair to creating wounds on themselves. These wounds will need medical attention from your exotics vet to avoid infection and to obtain safe pain control. Sometimes wounds are so bad that amputations need to be performed on toes, the tail, and male genitalia.
What should I do if my sugar glider hurt herself?
Elizabethan collars (e-collars) may be recommended to keep your sugar glider from continuing to hurt themselves. Antibiotics, pain medications, anti-inflammatories, fluid therapy, and other medical support could be necessary depending on the severity of the wounds. Sometimes behavior-modifying drugs may even be used.
Normal sugar gliders groom their soft fur regularly but if this routine grooming turns into excessive over-grooming you’ll be able to notice. You may notice bald patches on your glider begin to appear, tufts of fur in the cage, and eventually chewing of various body parts including their own tail, feet, hands, arms, and even genitalia.
When to take a sugar glider to the vet?
Take your sugar glider to a veterinarian immediately, and change its feed. Small, hard, dry droppings, or none at all, may be a sign of constipation. Possible causes of constipation are not enough liquids or fiber in the diet, poor overall diet, stress, lack of exercise, or digestive system problems.
Can a sugar glider be a pet pet?
Self-mutilation is often observed in pet birds such as African greys and cockatoos, pet cats, pet dogs, and even humans—and sugar gliders are no strangers to this disorder, either. In some species, there are many reasons for this self-inflicted trauma to start, but in sugar gliders, it is almost always due to one reason.
Yes. Your glider may go from pulling hair to creating wounds on themselves. These wounds will need medical attention from your exotics vet to avoid infection and to obtain safe pain control. Sometimes wounds are so bad that amputations need to be performed on toes, the tail, and male genitalia.
