Timeline Photos

As the breeder who cares for these guys every day, there is nothing better than receiving photo updates of my joeys from their new adopters. *happy sigh* Isn't Echo just phenomenally handsome! Look at those cow spot ears. Echo is a mosaic colored sugar glider, who was born at Sidekick Sugar Gliders, and came Out of Pouch on 6/5/16. His parents are Abra (pied female) and Satchmo (mosaic male).

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Help me welcome the newest joey to come Out of Pouch, a beautiful standard grey boy out of Stetson and Shine, their very first joey, who came OOP earlier this evening, 8/27/16. This joey has a naturally sweet temperament and I think he is going to make a really great friend for his adopter. He has already been spoken for by Dakota, pending deposit.

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UPDATED: This joey has been spoken for by Dakota, pending deposit 8/31/16. ---- I have a beautiful, sassy standard grey female available for adoption! She was out of pouch on 7/26/16 and can go home on 9/20/16. She is crabby and opinionated and feisty. She has wonderful lineage, but is available to a non-breeding home only, due to her spitfire attitude. I suspect this girl will bond very strongly to a single owner, and want nothing to do with anybody else. Please let me know if you think she is the one for you, and we can schedule a time for you to come and meet her and put a deposit down on her.

Photos from Sidekick Sugar Gliders's post

My pied boy, Barry, now versus then!"

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(SOLD) Meet Abra and Satchmo's brand new baby boy, who came out of pouch on 6/5/16! He is an absolutely gorgeous mosaic, and it's no surprise given the tame temperaments of his parents as older sister, this boy already has an outstanding naturally tame personality. He almost never crabs or calls for his parents when I am holding him. I am just delighted to be his caretaker until he is old enough for his awesome human parents to take him home. He is going to be a spoiled glider with two older (neutered) brothers to show him the ropes! So happy for this boy, and I will post his name as soon as Trish and John settle on what to call him. :)

Cityfair booth brings up the question: 'Should you buy a sugar glider?'

Sidekick Sugar Gliders was on KATU news! Shown in the video are Esme (mosaic girl, retired breeder), Brighton (one of my mosaic dads), and Satchmo (another one of my mosaic dads). http://katu.com/news/local/cityfair-booth-brings-up-the-question-should-you-buy-a-sugar-glider

Don't buy a Sugar Glider at the Rose Festival

Excellent post, please read! Do not support Pocket Pets! They are a huge broker for glider mills (just like puppy mills)! https://m.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/4lq5d8/dont_buy_a_sugar_glider_at_the_rose_festival/

IMPORTANT SUGAR GLIDER CARE AND SAFETY INFORMATION. PLEASE READ: Someone just asked me whether I use Wodent Wheels with the nail trimming insert to keep my sugar gliders' nails healthy. Here is my reply, with safe information about exercise wheels and how to trim your glider's nails at home: If you have a Wodent Wheel, please remove it immediately! That type of wheel has been known to amputate the tails of many sugar gliders. I trim my gliders' nails once a week with a regular human baby nail clipper. When your glider is sleepy in the middle of the day, take the cage pouch with the glider still inside of it, out of the cage, and pinch the top closed. Then reach in with your pointer finger and thumb, and pull one glider arm out at a time, to the top of the pouch, so that the only thing showing is your glider's single paw, and the rest of the pouch is still gently but securely pinched closed. Hold the paw with the pointer finger and thumb of your left hand (if you are right handed), and also keep the rest of the pouch closed with the rest of your left hand. With your right hand, clip only the tiny sharp points off each nail. Sugar gliders have 5 nails on each front paw, and only two nails that are sharp and need trimming on the two hind paws (they also have two "grooming claws" on the hind paws, but these are soft and usually don't need to be trimmed unless they are extra long and getting caught on fleece--they won't pierce your skin). When you are done with the first paw, let your glider take it back into the pouch, and then fish out the second paw, and so on, just one paw at a time until all four are trimmed. Make sure you softly baby talk to your glider the entire time, and let them know you aren't going to hurt them. I recommend keeping a jar of Quick Stop available any time you trim any animal's nails, to stop any accidental bleeding and to numb the sting if you do cut the nail to the quick on accident. With sugar glider nails, you barely have to take off a fraction of a millimeter per nail, much less than on a dog or cat. The goal isn't to shorten the nail; the goal is to take just the tiny sharp tip off so that the nails don't cause itchy hives on your skin when you are handling your glider. To prevent these itchy hives, the nails should be trimmed every 7 days. For the health of your glider, if you aren't worried about your skin, you just need to make sure you check their nails once a month, and any time they look too long or you see your glider getting his or her nails caught and stuck in the fabric of their cage fleece, those are times your glider needs their nails trimmed for their own safety and comfort. Here is a link to some pictures of the nail trimming technique I described above. I am not affiliated with any of the links I am providing, but I only provide links to information and products I believe are safe: http://www.suzsugargliders.com/nailtrimming.htm Onto safe exercise wheels, since the Wodent Wheel is so dangerous for sugar gliders: Please read my following care information, paying special attention to sugar glider nutrition and safe exercise wheels. I have provided links to help you find safe products for your gliders. Please let me know if you have any more questions I can help you with! Here is some information about the optimum care of sugar gliders, including links of where you can buy supplies. ------- Number of sugar gliders: Sugar gliders are colony animals who are very social with their own species as well as with the humans they are bonded to. If you decide to adopt a sugar glider from me, I require that you have at least 2 sugar gliders who will be living in the same cage together. You have until the sugar glider is 6 months old, or 4 months from the day you bring your sugar glider home, to adopt a second sugar glider. You are welcome to obtain the second sugar glider from me if I have one available, or from another breeder, Craigslist, etc. I don't require you buy both sugar gliders from me; just that you make sure your sugar glider has a glider friend to live with, by the age of 6 months or within 4 months after you bring the first glider home. Sugar gliders who are kept alone will become depressed, and may even die of loneliness. ------- No Breeding: By adopting from a Sidekick Sugar Gliders, you agree to not breed any sugar glider that I sell you. All male sugar gliders will be neutered prior to going home with you, and the neuter cost is already included in your adoption fee. Because female sugar gliders cannot be spayed, due to their unique anatomy, any females I sell are sold with a strict no-breeding contract, which states that if she is ever bred, you must relinquish her, and her mate, and any joeys they have had, back to me at no cost to me. If you choose to adopt a female sugar me, then you agree to these terms. ------- Parasites: When adopting a sugar glider from any source besides Sidekick Sugar Gliders, I strongly recommend you take the new sugar glider to an exotics vet for an exam, a fecal test, and a giardia snap test, BEFORE you introduce your new sugar glider to your sugar glider from Sidekick Sugar Gliders. Sugar gliders can carry contagious parasites, some of which can be passed to humans and your other pets. All of my parent gliders have fecal tests at least once a year, to ensure they are negative from any intestinal parasites. This ensures that your sugar glider from me is healthy and worm-free ------- If you ever have to rehome your sugar glider: The other cause of major depression in sugar gliders is if they ever have to be rehomed. Sugar gliders who are bonded to their humans become very attached to their people. It is dangerous for their health to be rehomed. However, I realize that sometimes people can't keep their sugar gliders anymore and need to rehome them. IMPORTANT: I require that if you ever have to rehome your sugar glider, for any reason, and at any time in their life, you MUST return the sugar glider to me. I will take back any sugar glider I sell, for any reason, for the entire duration of their life. That is part of being a responsible breeder. By adopting a sugar glider from Sidekick Sugar Gliders, you agree that you will never sell or give away your sugar glider, and if you cannot keep your sugar glider, you agree to return the sugar glider back to me at no cost. ------- Food: This is a link to several different diets. I recommend you choose one of the following that you can commit to preparing every night for your sugar gliders: BML, Priscilla Price's The Pet Glider Diet, ORIGINAL HPW (NOT HPW-Plus or HPW-Complete which are not nutritionally adequate), or Darcy's Ensure Diet, which is what I feed my gliders. Here is the link to the diet directions: Here: http://eternalniche.wikidot.com/system:sugar-glider-diet ------- Wheels: Your sugar gliders will need a safe exercise wheel to run on every night while they are awake. I have the Raptor wheels which are awesome and last for years, and are very safe and well made: http://www.mygliderwheelsandmore.com/shop-for-wheels.html The other kind of safe glider wheel is the Stealth wheel: http://atticworx.com/1Stealth%20Wheels.htm Do NOT use a Wodent wheel, which is what Pocket Pets sells. Those wheels have been found to amputate sugar gliders' tails. ------- Cages: This is a link to the exact cages I have, from Exotic Nutrition. (The Brisbane cage.). This is the minimum size I recommend for cages as well. Bigger is better if you have room in your house: http://www.exoticnutrition.com/brsuglca.html This is a link to a larger version of my cage, made by the same manufacturer, very high quality long lasting, the only difference from my cages is that it is larger, which is much better. If I had a bigger house all my cages would be this size. (this bigger cage is called the Congo): http://www.exoticnutrition.com/costsuglca.html Make sure you don't buy the "full setup" from Exotic Nutrition, because they sell the "Wodent Wheel" which is that bad scary wheel that amputates sugar glider tails like I told you about.) Alternatively, you can watch Craigslist for a large used cage, but you have to make sure the metal is POWDER COATED, NOT GALVANIZED, and has NO RUST, both of which are highly toxic to sugar gliders. And of course clean it really well before using it because there are contagious diseases out there such as worms and bacterial infections. ------- Toys & Fleece: For toys, small plastic kids toys are awesome once washed. Make sure there is no hair or ropes/fibers on the toy, which can cause a choking and strangulation hazard. I like to go to Goodwill to buy kids toys for my gliders. Small toys can be carried around the cage by your gliders, and larger toys can be zip tied to the inside of the cage to make a fun hide out. You will also need a zippered bonding pouch and a couple of sets of fleece cage pouches/fleece vines, etc. Three of the vendors on Facebook who sew safe and quality cage sets, whom I personally buy from, are Cheryl Lancello of Exclusively Exotics, Tammy Hayes, and Judi Scanlan Seegebarth: https://m.facebook.com/JudisSuggieShackOutfitters Just tell them I referred you to them, and they will help you out. ----------- Heat rock? No! If you already have one, please remove it immediately and throw it away. These are not safe for mammals, and veterinarians don't even recommend using heat rocks for reptiles. Heat rocks are not safe and they aren't necessary in any way. The normal room temperature inside your home is fine for your sugar gliders, especially since they spend much of their time sleeping inside warm fleece pouches anyway. Heat rocks can cause burns, and can even cause death by electrocution and house fires if your glider chews the cord. Plus, they take up valuable space inside the cage that could be used for a fun interactive toy that is safe! ------- That's all for now, I hope that helps! This care guide was written by: Jessica Lundgren Owner/Breeder @ Sidekick Sugar Gliders in NW Oregon Licensed Certified Veterinary Technician Copyright 2011-present All links are owned by their respective sources Please feel free to share, but please link back to this page: Sidekick Sugar Gliders

Abra and Satchmo have a joey in pouch! And Silhouette and Sinatra have a joey in pouch too! Abra's joey is about a week younger than Silhouette's. I expect to be able to see color and gender of the joeys in approximately a month to five weeks from now. I am super excited about these joeys! Abra is a true WOW pied, and the only other joey she has had was a pied girl who I kept for breeding! And Silhouette is a Black Face Black Beauty from Elvis lines, paired to an outstanding ringtail mosaic black beauty. All four of those parent gliders are extremely docile, hand-tame bra babies, so I expect their joeys will be extraordinarily naturally tame as well. <3 If you are hoping to add a joey to your family, I have a waiting list for joeys, of people I have pre-screened as good potential adopters, so those people get first dibs when I have joeys available. If you would like to be added to my waiting list, please email me at ryark@hotmail.com & I will send you more info & an important questionnaire for you to fill out & send back to me. Thanks! Jessica @ Sidekick Sugar Gliders

How to Bra Train Your Sugar Glider by Jessica Lundgren, Owner of Sidekick Sugar Gliders (I bra train all my joeys prior to them going to their new homes.) ------------------------------------- It is easiest for the breeder to train young joeys, but you can train them at any age. Make sure their nails are trimmed first, so that you don't get claw marks and hives all over your sensitive chest. Then just make sure you are wearing a sports bra under your shirt, and pick up your gliders and put them in the sports bra, and then hand them a treat that they love (such as Yogies). Then just let your shirt close and start walking around the room. They will either settle in just like they do in a pouch, or they will want to climb out. If they want to climb out, let them, tell them they are very good, and let them go back in their cage or in a pouch. Never force them to stay in the bra if they want to get out! That would traumatize them and make them hate the bra. By walking around rather than standing still, that will make the bra seem like a bonding pouch to them (you don't just stand in one place when you have them in the bonding pouch, you walk around doing things). Only give them their favorite treat when in the bra. Reserve that treat for bra time only. Put them in the bra once a day during the day time (not close to their active hours) and always hand them a treat right after you place them in the bra. Act like it is the same as a bonding pouch. Don't peak in too often at first, because that will disturb them and they may come out looking for more treats. Be patient! Even if they are only in the bra for two minutes a day while eating a treat, that is still a win! You are making a very positive association with bra time. Eventually they will decide that bra time is awesome and will snuggle in for the day. Let me know how it goes. :)

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Brighton and Briny's joeys are getting so big and beautiful! They are both bra trained already. SOLD. ****DISCLAIMER: I do NOT recommend most glider owners holding their sugar gliders outside except in a zippered bonding pouch. These joeys are very clingy to me, and I am a professional. Most of my adult sugar gliders I would not hold outside in the flowers. Escapes are just too easy and heartbreaking. Safety first. :)

Timeline Photos

I can't resist this little face. <3