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Okay /an/. My mother has two sugar gliders about 4 years old now. They're never played with or let out and she keeps them in a basement laundry room closed off from a wide open space and next to a water heater and central air heater/cooler. Other than stressing the little guys out from the sounds of the laundry machines going what is this doing/what can it do to the sugar gliders?
>> Anonymous
hello? Anybody?
>> Anonymous
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Nothing. Really, sugar gliders are wild animals, and any form of domestication would've been wiped off by now. They're also nocturnal, so they probably prefer the dark surroundings, and would have been killed off already if they were kept in a bright area.
>> Anonymous
Never been played with? What's the point in keeping the flying rats then?
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Well, they are probably unsocial. And not bonded with anyone (which kinda defeats the purpose of having one) and with that why dont YOU play with them, bond with them. They are really cool pets as you might already know.

What sucks is though, giving them away probably won't help and since they are already around 4 years old they will be antisocial and almost impossible to bond with anyone new.
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If you seriously want to socialize them take an old washcloth and stick it in your shirt several nights in a row to get your scent on it, then get an empty crown royal bag, you know, the purple velvety ones put the old washcloth in the bag and hang it in the cage, then remove their old bag. They will be super pissed off but sugar gliders get pissed off at everything and anything, very touchy little animals. Anyway, let them sleep in the crown royal bag a couple of days to get used to it and such. After a couple of days you can take the bag out of the cage with them in it and just hold them, IN THE BAG, for a few hours each day, they are going to bitch and growl up a storm. It is easiest to do this in the mornings when they are tired because they will be too tired to growl and bitch tooo much. So after a week or so of just getting the used to the idea of a human handling them you can try to give them live meal worms when they poke their heads of out the bag. They will not be happy, they WILL bite you, and they WILL scratch you, it will take 6 months to a year of attention every day to get them to the point where they wont come out of the bag only to bite and scratch you.
>> Anonymous
After about a year they will become accustomed to you, they will sleep in the bag while you're holding them, and they wont try to hurt you. They will still bite, that's just how they are, sugar gliders bite, if they like you they wont bite hard, we have one that likes to chew on fingers, it doesn't hurt, bad, but that's just how they operate. They will always prefer the company of their own kind to humans. I strongly discourage people from buying sugar gliders, I thought they were super cute animals and I wanted one, I found an animal rescue that had 3, a momma, pappa and their baby boy, little did we know she was pregnant with twin girls, now I have 5. Sugar gliders do not make good pets for a multitude of reasons, they aren't like dogs or cats, or even rodents. They're actually related to opossums. If you already have them, all you can do is commit yourself to keeping them in a responsible manner, and keeping them healthy and happy, if that's not possible, then animal rescue is always an option.