Sugar Glider University

This article is a follow-up and clarification to the Self-Mutilation article written late last month.

It is Glider University's position that, especially due to the current overpopulation crisis sugar gliders face in America that heroic measures should not be taken in the case of ill sugar gliders.

Why is this our position?

Sugar gliders were illegally introduced into the United States in the late 1980's, which is quite unfortunate for the species as a whole, as the history of captive sugar gliders in the U.S. begins with ignorant animal smugglers.  Unfortunately, the ignorance that began the buying and selling of sugar gliders in America continues to persist today in nearly all aspects of glider care, the most glaringly obvious being the minimum cage size or enclosure requirements by different state governments, as well as the minimum sizes endorsed by various breeders.

Why do so many supposed lovers of sugar gliders endorse or support small cage sizes?  The answer has to do with two things most glider caregivers and breeders seem to have little of: time and money.