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Sugar Glider Sugar Bear Other Pets 3
Sugar glider sugar bears did not get a grand welcome when brought in United States for the very first time in 1993. They had to struggle a lot to surge the common skepticism that they could not be raised as a companion pet and that they cannot go along well with other common house pets like dogs and cats. The credit goes to the fact that sugar glider sugar bears are social and colony animals and they do fit into any family with ease. This attribute appears especially true when the animal is introduced to a new family at an appropriate time, which is ideally between 7 to 12 weeks out of the pouch.
Introducing sugar glider sugar bears to other pets in the house involves care and patience. The confluence takes some time but must be done slowly. The first step is to let the animals, both the older member of the family and the newbie sugar glider sugar bear to start smelling one another because animals bond mainly through smell. This is done by rubbing a piece of cloth on each animal and presenting it to the other one so that they start getting used to each other’s smell. After a few days, an introduction between the pets can be arranged.
To be cautious, it is better to keep the entrant sugar glider sugar bear in its cage and allow the other pet to smell the cage. The process can be a bit entertaining for those watching it, with the tiny sugar glider sugar bear trying to ground dominance over the other pet with some of its tough poses. After few such sessions, if everything looks fine, the two animals can be brought together through hands or bonding pouch to smell each other.
Sugar glider sugar bears go fine with pets like cats and dogs, but may take some time to go along with birds since some birds prey on them. One the same ground, rodents like hamsters, mice, or guinea pigs too may take some time, sugar glider sugar bears being their natural predators. Snakes, reptiles, and insects like spiders never bond with sugar glider sugar bears, hence better to be kept away.
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