The Bonding Process

Bonding with your Sugar Gliders takes time and patience, but it is the best part of owning this little pet.

To get your Sugar Glider to bond and really familiar with you, what you need to do is to spend some quality time with it. If you have a suggie that has been bred in captivity it might take you a less time to bond with it, this is because they are already familiar with humans and are not afraid of them. The trick here is not to force anything.

Take your time, be patience and take things one step at a time. Don't worry if your bonding will takes more time than you thought before, sometime it takes somewhere from instant bond to up to few months. To speed up the bonding process what you can do is to take some piece of cloth that you've been wearing for quite some time and has your scent on it, and put it inside your Sugar Gliders nesting box or sleeping pouch. This little trick will help your Sugar Glider get used to your scent a lot faster.

If you have a Sugar Glider who isn't completely tamed, don't wear gloves (some people just do that) while handling them. This is because your Sugar Gliders will get used to the smell of your gloves, instead of your own scent.

Suggies do bite some time when they get mad or feel threaten, but what you should do is just sticking it through. Don't try to jerk them around, because it will hurt you even more and returning them to their cage once they have bitten you is also not a good idea. They are a smart creature, your Sugar Glider will start to think, that every time it bites you, you will put them back to safety and leave them alone.

Stick it through and continue handling them. The bonding process takes time and patience, but after a while your Sugar Glider will start to understand that even if it bites you, you still continue to handle them.

Make sure to supervise children around your Sugar Glider. That's because most kids love animals, they may squeeze them too hard out of love, and this may cause your Sugar Glider to bite back.