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Sugar Glider Sugar Bear Pros and Cons 2

 

If you are an animal lover, you will find sugar glider sugar bears great pets, but if you are not, you may find them to be terrible, so sugar glider sugar bears, like any other pet, isn’t for everyone. These animals are playful and loving, wanting constant attention from the owner. Thus they form great pets for people who live by themselves, as they tend to spend time with their owner and love to sleep in the pockets all day. The flip side is they will require constant love and affection, and if you are unable to provide it, they will be gloomy and depressed.

 

Though sugar glider sugar bears are not more or less difficult to maintain than other pets, they are certainly one of the lowest maintenance pets around. Sugar glider sugar bears don’t bite unless they are scared or fear getting hurt, like any other animals. The good thing is, their teeth are not really designed for hard biting, like a hamster or gerbil, so a rare bite only feels like a hard pinch. Sugar glider sugar bears cannot be trained to use a litter box, but they are extremely clean animals, and they are intelligent with predictable behavior. This means it is easy to understand their body language and you can carry them around in your pockets the whole day without a single accident.

 

Ideally, their balanced diet consists of 75% pellet food and 25% fresh fruits and vegetables sprinkled with multivitamin. It is a very simple and cheap diet, and will not cost you more than $10 per month per healthy sugar glider sugar bear. What your pet eats has a direct impact on how it smells. Excessive proteins, meat and live foods such as mealworms and crickets in the diet causes sugar glider sugar bears to smell pretty strongly. Also, unneutered males smell strongly as they mark their territory.

 

A well balanced diet for a neutered sugar glider sugar bear means they smell very little and quite similar to a puppy. Sugar glider sugar bears are a lot like dogs to raise as pets, living for 12-15 years, playing and spending time with the owner and being intelligent. 


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