~HOW TO BONDING UR SUGGIES~
Bonding with your sugar glider is a very rewarding experience.
But it will take time for your sugar glider to learn that he or she can totally trust you.
It will most likely not happen overnight. It can take 1 or 2 months to learn that it can trust you, but you are really in turn earning their trust as they are very smart loving souls.
The first thing that you have to do is to put yourself in that little sugar gliders place. Or try to visualize their world from their size and view of our world that they have been placed into.
Look at your size and picture their little size. Now imagine a HUGE, strange (thing to them) hand coming toward you and try to grab you, You would stand up and scream and do everything you could to keep that hand (thing) from grabbing you and doing who know's what to you!
That is what they are thinking and feeling when they see your strange face looking at them in their pouch that has been changed all of a sudden from what they have known when they wake up one day. The day that you have purchased your first glider(s) to love and care for.
They are scared and should be left alone for the first 2-3 days just to settle in.
They have new scents all of a sudden, new faces, surely not their breeders face that they once knew, and new sounds in their environment.
You can of course feed them, leave on a soft night light until you go to bed so that you can sit quietly and watch your new little pets explore their new life.
You can speak softly and lovingly to them, they may even come just close enough just to get a sense of who this new being is that is talking to them.
They rely on the scent of their surroundings. You will smell weird to them and they will not like it at first. They will make a huge strange and very loud noise called "crabbing" at you and it will scare you and make you feel bad as all you want to do is to let this little animal know that you will not hurt it.
The crabbing noise kind of sounds like an electric pencil sharpener. They will also bark at night, they sound like little mini dogs.
They will also make a "PSST" type of noise. Some people think that the glider is sick when in fact it is a "location" noise to locate other gliders or even their new humans. You can even do it back to them and they will know that it is you.
You will wonder why it is making this awful noise at you when all you want to do is hold it, and assure it that it is safe and loved. But it is only doing this because of being in a strange new place.
Do not bring friends over right away as this will only frighten it more. If you just have to show them something purchase a sugar glider book and read it together and show the pictures as you will have many years to have your new pet meet all of your friends.
You should have the cage pouch hanging inside the cage and the sugar glider will find it and curl up to sleep. This also helps with the first step of the bonding process.