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| Name: |
Lily
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Age: |
One and a half years old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Sugar Glider
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| Home: |
League City, Texas, USA
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Lily
is very gentle and sweet. Our sugar gliders are a nocturnal
marsupial that is native to Australia and Indonesia. They are sweet
animals that are soooo very soft and love to be petted and loved on.
They have taught our daughters responsibility as well as showed them how
fun a pet can bring to the family. We are a family of 10, okay: Mom,
Dad, four daughters ages 18, 17, 11, and 6 yeasr old, as well as two
dogs Sadie, and Tiki and the Sugar Gliders Tiger and Lily. Lily is about
two years old and is a sugar glider that we adopted from a family that did
not have enough time to care for her anymore. The previous owners put
us thru an interview process and decided out of several (about 50)
emails. We received her right before Christmas, and it was a very
exciting night. We (our family) had a lot to learn! Sugar gliders take
a lot of responsibility and time to take care of but they are a lot of fun
as well.
Lily loves to eat fresh fruits and vegetables as well as organic baby
food, yogurt chips and meal worms. We have our very own mealworm farm
that has 4 levels: The beetle area where they lay eggs and produce
little tiny worms about the size of a hair, they get moved to the worm
growing station where once a bit bigger go to the big worm home, we also
let a few of the big "fatty" worms grow into pupas when we need to add
to our beetle population. We feed the worm farms weekly with banana
peels and apple slices. We also have to clean out the worms shedding of
their outer shells. We add uncooked rice and corn meal, and cardboard
egg cartons for the worms to eat and lay eggs on and in. It's a lot of
work, but it teaches us responsibility!
Sugar gliders love to be petted and their fur is sooooooo soft! They do
have a smell and we have a waterless shampoo that we use on them
sometimes. It smells like flowers. Lily loves to be rubbed down when we
wash her and she will push her body under our fingers like cats do when
they are petted. Lily also likes to be hand fed, we feed her meal worms
and yogurt chips that we cut into tiny pieces, these are both her
favorites! Sugar gliders remind us of tiny monkeys so we call them our
baby monkeys. They have tiny little hands that they grab food from us
and Lily is so gentle. She will gently grab the food and eat it.
Lily is the mellow and fun loving sugar glider, she does know her name
and will peek her tiny nose out to see who is calling her name. She is
still timid with our family, and we have just started taking her out of
her cage, but you have to be super careful as she will jump out of your
hand and glide to escape. They both love to burrow into couches and can
squeeze into tiny areas and we love her so much we do not want to lose
her. Sometimes we put up our tent and let her explore us and play in a
safe area where we can gain her trust. Lily's cage, which is quite
large, gets cleaned really good once a month and we rearrange her toys
and change out her toys so it's like a new adventure for her. She will
get so excited and it seems like she runs and has to check out her
domain inch by inch!
My family had first seen a sugar glider at a Houston Flea Market and we
all fell in love right away. Our mom kept looking into buying a pair as
they get lonely at night when they play, as they are nocturnal which
means they pretty much play and eat at night, so we feed them around 7pm
and then get to play with them for a couple of hours before we go to bed
at night.
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