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Sugar Glider Sugar Bear Pros and Cons 3

 

As an animal lover you are bound to find sugar glider sugar bears to be excellent pets, but if you are not, you may find them terrible, which means that sugar glider sugar bears, just like any other pet, are not for everyone.

 

Sugar glider sugar bears need constant love and attention, are playful little creatures that like to spend time with their owner, sleeping in their pockets. They are thus great pets for people who live by themselves, but on the flip side, you will have to spend time with them otherwise they become dull and gloomy. They are no less or more easy to raise, but are certainly one of the lowest maintenance house pets. Like most animals, they never bite unless they are scared or fear getting hurt. However, their teeth aren’t designed for hard biting, so a rare bite is only a hard pinch.

 

Sugar glider sugar bears are extremely clean animals, but cannot be trained to use a litter box. However, these are intelligent animals and their behavior can be predicted by simply studying their body language, so it is safe to carry them around the whole day in your pockets without a single accident. A balanced diet for a sugar glider sugar bear consists of 75% pellet food and 25% fresh fruits and vegetables sprinkled with multivitamin. The diet is simple and cheap, costing about $10 a month for one healthy sugar glider sugar bear.

 

The smell of a sugar glider sugar bear is strongly dependent on what you feed it. Excessive proteins, meat and live foods such as mealworms and crickets induce a strong smell in these pets. Unneutered males tend to mark their territory strongly, so they too smell strong, but neutered sugar glider sugar bears smell like puppies. From an owner’s point of view, sugar glider sugar bears are quite like dogs, living for 12-15 years, requiring love and attention, spending time with their owners and performing tricks, being intelligent animals. 


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