Our beautiful Guinevere, our youngest sugar glider at one and a half years old. She is what they call a platinum white face blonde. She is absolutely gorgeous with silver markings, grey ears, and little black whiskers. Guinevere took a little longer to be comfortable with us but she took to Leopold right away and loves spending time with her sister as well. She does also like to be alone sometimes and is the only one you will find doing her own thing every once in a while. She is curious, sweet, and the bonding is coming along nicely. Both girls had to be quarantine for longer than normal due to both of them coming to us with worms that were highly contagious to all our pets. They got the vet care they needed, got treated for the worms and were introduced to Leopold once the vet cleared them both with a clean bill of health.Guinevere's favorite things are mirror toys, the monkey in a barrel toy, and unlike her buddies she enjoys spending time foraging through the toys and items on the bottom of the cage. More pictures coming soon.
Sugar gliders are exotic pets, they are sold under pretense of being simple, easy, and cheap to care for. This is NOT true, they require a lot of daily work, a huge cage or room, a special diet, and most importantly an exotic veterinarian. If you run across people selling them at conventions or fairs Buyer Beware (don't be fooled like we were). Please do your research, they are incredibly cute but require a ton of time, work, special accommodations, and no matter how hard we try, humans are unable to recreate their natural environment or their diet. However, now that we have them we will never stop trying to get as close as possible. Me and my husband built a huge custom enclosure so they have sufficient space. They require warm temperatures so they have their own bedroom that is temp. controlled, and I spend a minimum of an hour a day preparing their food, cleaning, doing their dishes, and more. I also have hand made all their pouches and toys by hand because a lot of the "safe" toys were indeed not safe at all. They also have a strong odor if fed a correct diet, the sales people will try to tell you they have very little smell but that is also untrue. So if someone tells you they are easy, please do not believe them.