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09/02/2022

Big news everyone! Gypsy Gliders is BACK! Within the next few months there will be beautiful sweet bundles of joey joy! Stay tuned for updates and pictures.

20/05/2021

Thank you to everyone who has been following my page. After a lot of thought and some big life changes I am going to be discontinuing the breeding of sugar gliders. It breaks my heart to do this but I have to do what is going to be best for the longterm care of my animals. So, over the next few weeks I will be selling my breeding pairs, remaining joeys, and a whole tonne of fleece and toy making supplies. My priority is finding the best carers for my babies. If you are interested in any of the above please contact me. Thank you.

19/10/2020

My apologies to anyone who has messaged, or has been waiting for posts of available joeys. I've been busy tending to family matters. However, I am back and will soon be posting 5 joeys!! 1 platinum girl will be ready for adoption soon, and 4 newly OOP babies(2 boys, 2 girls), just waiting for their eyes to open so I can take some cute pictures! Thanks for your patience!

23/07/2020

A wee platinum female just OOP last night. She will be a cutie for sure!

19/05/2020

***Sold*** This sweet Platinum girl was OOP May 1st and will be ready for a new home July 10th. Pm me for details or to reserve her :)

19/05/2020

***Both SOLD*** Hello my lovelies! Sorry it has been so long, things have been busy here. However, I return with good news, there are 2 joeys ready for new homes in about a week! Pm for details :)

28/02/2020

We have 2 new babies finally! Their eyes just opened this week, an adorable little classic grey girl and what looks to be BB boy (we'll have to see how that chinstrap fills out). Pictures to follow this weekend!

24/02/2020

Sale on pre-made bonding bags!! $15 this week only from a great Canadian Vendor. Check out their albums for premade fleece, flannel and cotton bonding bags!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/867798346607536/

30/01/2020

**Update: at least one of the joeys is a girl😍** Somebody looks comfortable! New joeys coming soon! You can only see 1 tail, but there's 2 joeys in there!

11/01/2020

A quick glance at what's necessary to own sugar gliders. I will continue to update as necessary.

THINGS TO KNOW:
-they are nocturnal
-they can live about 10-15 years, owning them is commitment!
-they can make many noises, some much louder than you would expect and often while you or others in your house are sleeping
-they can not be litter trained, they will "mark" you with little dribbles of p*e, that's how they say I love you. Do not attempt to put any sort of diaper on them
- they can NOT be put on a harness or leash- this will cause them a lot of stress and potentially harm their gliding membrane.

HOUSING:
-a large cage
-height is more important than width
-large doors on the front to make cleaning and adding/removing items from the cage easier
-bar spacing no wider than 1cm
- horizontal bars are prefered over vertical bars but both are acceptable
-a cage with a drop pan that can be pulled out will make cleaning easier

WHEELS:
There are several safe models of wheels available online. Unfortunately it is highly unlikely that you will be able to find a suitable wheel in a pet store. Sugar gliders have long tails and a wing like membrane that stretches between their front and back legs- these can easily be caught up in gaps, rungs and centre bars that most hamster type wheels have. Gliders also do not really "run" they jump from one side of their wheel to the other,straight through the middle, and ride it back around to the mid point to jump again.

CAGE SETS, BONDING POUCHES:
Cage sets are sets of several items like fleece vines, hammocks, sleeping pouches, hanging cubes and tunnels to hang in the cage for gliders to sleep and play on. Cage sets and sleeping pouches should ideally be made of anti-pill/blizzard/polar fleece to prevent the gliders nails from getting caught in loose fibres. Although cotton or flannel can be used, they require a little more work to make them safe.
All sewn items for sugar gliders should be made with small, tight, hidden seams to prevent their nails from getting caught and lesson the chance that they can get to the thread and cut it with their teeth. Exposed, loose stitches or loose threads pose and serious risk to gliders, a thread can easily get wrapped around a toe or tail and cut off circulation, get caught in teeth or entangle them- and they around known to chew off limbs to free themselves.
Bonding pouches are similar to sleeping pouches but have a zipper to close the top and often a little window made of plastic hardware mesh or airholes made with grommets. A bonding pouch allows you to safely carry your sugar glider around with you during the day at home or out and about (without the risk of them escaping) to help them get to know your voice and smell while they sleep. Bonding pouches can be made in a bag style, scarf style, sewn into the pocket of a hoodie etc to allow you to bond with your glider whatever way works best for you. **note: if you are taking your gliders out in the bonding pouch for more than an hour or so be sure to offer them water often, and give them apple slices or other juicy fruit to avoid dehydration. If temperatures are fairly high or low it's best to leave them safely at home. **

TOYS: will be updated shortly**

DIET:
There are many recommended diets like TPG, BML, OHPW etc. Most of them involve items you can find at a grocery store, and then order some special vitamins/supplement online. A straight pellet diet is not suited for them. I feed the TPG diet and that is what I am most familiar with, if you are interested in feeding a different diet don't hesitate to send me a different message and I will connect you with someone familiar with that diet.
I prefer the TPG diet as I feel it provides more variety and the ingredients are easy to find in grocery stores. The vitamin supplement is necessary and needs to be ordered online.
Although pellets are not to be fed as the staple part of their diet, you may choose to offer a very small amount during the day a couple times a week or use a few pellets each night as foraging treats. Offering quality pellets or monkey biscuits occasionally is also beneficial to dental health.

Commonly used treats are freeze dried crickets or meal worms, honey sticks, dried fruit(no added sugar), yogurt baking chips, dried fish stick snacks.
Insects like crickets, meal worms, super worms, horn worms etc can also be fed live and your gliders will probably love you for it, but be prepared for escap*e bugs. Offering live insects will often bring forth a totally new part of your gliders personality as they hunt, stalk, and attack their prey. That being said, having been domesticated some of them are totally weirded out by their snack moving!
** Treats are just that, treats. Meant to be offered occasionally, in small amounts. Just think of the size of these items in your gliders hand in ratio to a junk food of similar size in your own. A yogurt drop to your glider is like a big cookie or donut to you, fine here and there but you definitely should not be eating several of them a day.

You should also have multiple water sources in your cage incase one fails or becomes soiled, and you should check them once or twice a day. Rodent water bottle style is fine, but the ball can get stuck, and stay away from the ones with a spring loaded ball as they are often too hard for gliders to drink from or they can potentially pinch your gliders tongue.
The prefered way to offer water is with with a water silo, typically marketed for birds, but as a partially open water source they can be soiled so try to place them under a hammock or shelf to keep droppings out.
**leaving an air pocket in both of these water sources is INCREDIBLY important to ensure that the water is able to flow out. If you overfill them it will create a bit of a suction/tension that holds the water in, so despite having a full water bottle your glider will not be able to drink it**

CLEANING AND ODOR:
Sugar gliders are very smell oriented and have a sensitive respiratory system. Keep anything with a strong scent away from them. Air fresheners, scented candles and most essential oils should not be used around them. Some essential oils like eucalytus can be used in a diffuser if kept far enough away from them in area with decent circulation.
Sugar gliders mark things in their cage to make it smell like home. If you clean their cages too often are and remove too much of their scent at a time they will likely over-mark and make it smell stronger than it did before you cleaned. It is recommended to rotate which items you clean in the cage, wash the cage set 1 week, and toys the next or whatever works for you, just try to leave as much of their scent in there as you can. The bars of the cage itself shouldn't need to be done that often, probably once a month at the most often, maybe only only a few times at year. Trays/shelves/drop pans where urine and f***s collect can be done daily or every other day or so. Kitchens, food dishes, water bottles/silos should be cleaned daily to prevent mold, scum and fruit flies.

Simple vinegar and water or blue dawn dish soap and water are all you need for cleaning cages. Do not use any sort of chemicals.

When washing cage sets, using your regular detergent is fine, put the items in mesh garment bags to help protect them or keep small items like blankets and pom poms together. Air dry, or put them in the dryer on a low setting with NO dryer sheet.

They do have an odor-like any animal, but if you clean their cage fairly regularly it will not be an offensive odor. Intact males especially have a stronger, slightly musky odor, but nowhere near as bad hamsters, rats, ferrets etc. But if odor might be a problem for you, then get females or neutered males.

10/01/2020

***This little boy will be going to his new home at the end of the month! Congratulations Catherine on your new baby***
Coming soon! This little bundle isn't quite ready to go yet, but will be in a couple of weeks. Lineaged classic grey boy, very sweet with a lot of character. Pm me for details or to make a deposit so you don't miss him!

10/01/2020

These handsome boys are available! They are very sweet and social, good about having their nails trimmed and they are both tail carriers! They are lineaged classic greys pm me for more details!

05/01/2020

So my birthday is coming up on the 11th, and instead of gifts I'd really like for people to donate to organizations who are helping the wildlife in Australia. Or send donations to me as I will be putting my new sewing machine to work making pouches for joeys to send over to Australia, and I could use donations towards fabric and shipping. I hope to find some other people to work with so we can stretch that money as far as possible. Thanks everyone!💖

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24/12/2019

We have a new baby here at Gypsy Gliders ❤ He loves snuggling with his turtle

15/12/2019

(These items are not available for sale)

12/11/2019

This little hunk is still available(and so is his twin brother) they are lineaged and confirmed tail carriers 😉 pm for details!

14/09/2019

The Sugar Glider Nutrition System

This is a link the TPG diet for those of you who are asking. This is the diet that all my gliders are on and they are loving it!
https://www.thepetglider.com/pages/tpg-diet

The Pet Glider Fresh Diet for Healthy Sugar Gliders (To go straight to the recipe, please click here.) There are several different theories on what you should feed a sugar glider on a daily basis. But most sugar glider experts agree that these wonderful animals, when raised in captivity, require fre...

13/09/2019

These boys had their first big outing with me today and I was SO impressed with their temperament. I took them to the public school I work in for a few hours and they were nothing but pleasant! They only crabbed briefly a couple times early on. The kids didn't get to touch them today, but they put on quite the show running up and down my arms and across my back before crawling back into their pouch to go back to sleep for the afternoon. By the time we got back home they didn't want to go back in the cage. These boys are going to make such sweet pets for someone, definitely going to be "but mom take me with you" gliders!!! They would be great daddies too, they already help mom and dad out with their baby brother. And I'm betting they'll be tail carriers too :p

13/09/2019

These vendors and breeders carry a range of things from toys, treats, cage sets, bonding accessories, glider themed items and gliders! I have personally dealt with them all and have alway received great products and customer service :)