Sugar Glider University

A new children's book is about to be published about sugar gliders.  At GU, our goal is education--and this book is an entertaining, darling story of a sugar glider that teaches as it entertains!

We hope that everyone will think of Kimi Sue as a great gift during this holiday season for the glider lovers in your lives.  Especially for children, this book would be a much more appropriate gift than a sugar glider!

"Kimi Sue" is a fantastic story about an adorable sugar glider who learns manners and proper eating habits the hard way!  This comical tale, written by Tracy White, is full of colorful artwork and witty rhetoric.  Her story is bound to delight children and adults alike.

Click here to purchase your copy today!

It is with sadness that we receive emails on a regular basis from sugar glider owners who would like us to look into a certain breeder or pet shop, or a certain website.  These poor people have had horrible experiences which resulted in tragedy, and they want us to do something about it, or they see something they know is cruel or inhumane and want us to stop it.  We can't stop everything, nor do we have time to look into every instance of cruelty that is reported, but we do our best.

Recently, we came across a website that is widely hailed in some circles of the "online sugar glider community" as the premier source for photographs of sugar gliders.  We had visited this site several years ago, and we were impressed with the effort that the owner of the site must have gone through to get her photographs.  However, this last month our visit left us disgusted and sickened.

It is one thing to photograph sugar gliders who are tame and willing, as in our photos of our very sweet "Rotunda", who posed and helped us take some great photos of her joeys while they were still in the pouch.  We were extremely careful with this situation, and we would not have even attempted to take the photos with any other gliders with which we had experience (though they were all tame).  Rotunda was an experienced mother from a very good line, and had a special disposition.  She was very friendly and docile, extremely healthy, and very laid back.  She was (unfortunately for the rest of the captive species), not like other pet sugar gliders.  Most "pet quality" sugar gliders in the U.S. are from unknown or bad lines, are not even tame, and still have the same attributes as wild sugar gliders.  They are also not laid back with motherhood. We would not recommend trying to to photographs like that unless the glider was extremely healthy, happy and cooperative.  In that case, even then, we would advise caution and care. 

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