Posted By: Anonymous
Poor Tid Bit ..this is a long story - 09/18/03 10:02 PM
A while ago me and a friend saw an Ad in the paper about sugar gliders...she really wanted one and did a lot of research about them before finding the ad..I had already had one and wanted her to have a friend...but I wanted a girl. The had said twin boys...so I didnt think I would be getting one. We got there and the lady went into the gliders room (aka her kids' room a boy and a girl)....they turned out to be her daughters babys...they had a VERY dirty cage and they were I guess running loose in the very messy room. Well at first she couldnt find them!! We looked for like an hour..finally we found them in a pair of dirty jeans in a hamper!! Anyway after I saw their little faces I couldnt just let his brother stay there!!! We got them both and left. I never thought to ask the age of them..so I called and she said 4 weeks oop!! They still needed their mom for another 4 weeks!! She wouldnt let them come back so they could do that...so we had to hand feed them milk that an exotic pet vet said to get. They seemed to be doing great...hers became very bonded to her:) Then disaster stuck..about a month ago (Labor day) I got a call at 7am..my friend was crying..TidBit was barely moving or breathing. Just laying there...She had to go to work and couldnt get take him to the emergency vet..I rushed over there...by the time I got there he had died. We have no idea why this happened. She said he would shake (convolse) in her hands..and before he stopped breathing he shook really badly and then died. She thinks he ate some of the cage? I read on some other post here that he might have been low sugar??? Could someone help us out here.. I dont want this to happen to his brother <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
I wasnt going to post this but it might help someone else if it happens to their glider.
This is posted in loving memory of Tidbit who had crossed over the Rainbow Bridge <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crying.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/gliderangel.gif" alt="" />
I wasnt going to post this but it might help someone else if it happens to their glider.
This is posted in loving memory of Tidbit who had crossed over the Rainbow Bridge <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crying.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/gliderangel.gif" alt="" />