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Sugar Glider Sugar Bear Feeding 3

Improper diet and malnutrition account for over 90% of all the health problems in sugar glider sugar bears. This generally happens when well meaning owners start feeding treats to their pets on a very regular basis. Excessive treats instead of healthy foods can cause harm to your pet. Sugar glider sugar bears can act very much like human children in this aspect, in that they would prefer to eat something sweet and which tastes good instead of opting for healthier and nutritious foods. In fact sugar glider sugar bears just love to eat sweet foods and insects such as crickets and meal worms, both of which are those categories of foods that contain high sugar and fat content with little or no nutritional value. Therefore treats should be limited to a maximum of 5% of the sugar glider sugar bear’s diet and that too should be in small quantities, which should always be borne in mind considering their small size. Limiting the treats that you feed to your sugar glider sugar bear is essential to maintain its good health and thus should not be neglected. You should also not start feeding your sugar glider sugar bear treats when it is young, and only start them once it reaches an age of 12-14 weeks out of the pouch, because younger sugar glider sugar bears do no have a well developed digestive system and can cause trouble with strange foods. While beginning to feed your sugar glider sugar bear treats, you should start off the process in a slow manner, keeping tab on any signs that indicate trouble, such as diarrhea. Once you have made sure nothing of this sort has happened, that item can be deemed safe for consumption by your pet. Fruits such as a single blueberry, applesauce and a dab of flavored yogurt are generally acceptable foods. Dehydrated fruits in small chunks can be fed but it is always safe to prefer organic foods to make sure there are not even traces of toxins that can be very harmful to a sugar glider sugar bear.


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