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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/27/08 09:20 PM
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Tinkerbellesmomm
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No they don't let people know when they will be there. We got a baby recently and then decided to get a mate (before I came here) I emailed them and asked and they couldn't give me any info for anywhere let alone my area. I am grateful at this point for that but still they keep it very close to the chest.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/27/08 11:37 PM
09/27/08 11:37 PM
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Thats awesome girl!!! I am going to print that off and offer it to any of the teens that my daughter shows our gliders to. I know of several teens right now that are intending to ask their parents for a glider as a Christmas gift! This will either help them decide against a glider, or at elast give them some good info to get them started! YOU ROCK!!! Thank You :blushes: Also this is Pocket Pet are they the same as PPP? Yes, Pocket Pets = Perfect Pocket Pets = (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/27/08 11:56 PM
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GoGoGliders
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couldn't agree more.....that hard work has stopped a few impulse buys at our local pet store......
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/28/08 12:33 AM
09/28/08 12:33 AM
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peace
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Who sent the MOJO? Not one glider sold in 4 hours. A fight tryed to break out in front of me the last 30 minutes of the fair so I decided to move and get closer to one of the exit gates. Oooh I think their was about 30 teenagers getting ready to hook up but the police where their as they tried to swing. Anyhow I was wrong on the cage size they are 18X18X24 inchs. The wodents do not have gaurds on the wheels and they sell sprinkle fresh powder for in the bottom of the cage to cut down on (fruit flys???). What ever it is the gliders can reach it through the bottom. Also the frame going around the door will rust I saw it. The wire is not the heavy wire and is thinly plastic coated.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/28/08 10:40 AM
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BelladonnasMom
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Good luck in the struggle today Peace!!! You are wonderful!
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/28/08 11:00 AM
09/28/08 11:00 AM
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peace
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Good luck in the struggle today Peace!!! You are wonderful! Thank you very much. I will start later today because of people going to chruch. Also it was very hard yesterday to park so I just want to do it one time today.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/28/08 02:15 PM
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suggiemom
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Michelle - please don't think of it as you didn't save 4 babies, you EDUCATED FOUR PEOPLE who will educate ten more, and so on. Word of mouth advertising works BOTH ways!! With our wildlife group I always end up at the same events as these people. I hand out information and in the past six months I KNOW I have stopped many of their sales and educated many people If I reach one person, I've had a great day. People now come and say "Ok I've listened to what they had to say, now I want to hear what you have to say". I hand them my flyer on why NOT to purchase an animal at a fair, festival or trade show and I say "I don't expect you to believe me, but I want to give you some places to go in order to research on your own and make an informed decisioin based on the information you can find". First I send them to GC, then USGN and SESG. I tell them to google "sugar glider" because then, they have the option of reading information that I didn't provide to them. 9 out of 10 email me and thank me for steering them in other directions. I always offer to help them find a rescue or a local, responsible breeder at no charge to them and they know that my only reason for doing so is to help the gliders. I have nothing whatsoever to gain by helping them as I don't even charge an adoption fee for my rescues so it's a win-win for them. I have a lot of info that I can send to you as well that we have good success with and you're welcome to use whatever you can. I'd also like a copy of that video if you wouldn't mind. You have done an AWESOME job!!!!
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/28/08 02:18 PM
09/28/08 02:18 PM
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suggiemom
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Oh and peace, I have one of their cages and the wire has in fact, rusted. They also use galvenized wire to hold the cages together. The little clip rings or whatever. The cage was so small, to make it suitable to even hold a joey I had to cut the shelf out of it as there was only a four inch or so gap with a ladder so as tiny as the cage is, their construction actually cuts it in half. There is NO ROOM for a glider to uhm, GLIDE.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/28/08 02:42 PM
09/28/08 02:42 PM
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peace
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Thanks for all the suport I am off to the fair again.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/28/08 08:52 PM
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Taylor422
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I wish you the best of luck.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 07:33 AM
09/29/08 07:33 AM
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peace
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Thanks I pleeded again at the Fair office to do something. I think I am coming across as a nut case to them.
I only handed out 20 pamplets Sunday. I am so tired and sunburned now. I will go back again today to see if anybody follows up on my complaints. I am also thinking that maybe somebody did talk to them and maybe that is why fewer are being sold now. Another thing I think might have happened is people are going home and RETURNING to buy their suggie joeys. I never did step foot into the building this time I know they have got to be wondering why I keep going back by now. The only thing I feel I can do at this point is wait at one end of the building and wait for the cages to go by.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 08:21 AM
09/29/08 08:21 AM
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Michelle you are doing all you can with your "one woman show". You can only do so much alone and you are either persuading people not to buy or at least getting them the RIGHT information if they do buy. I wish I was there to help you out but remember we are with you in spirit helping you get though the day.
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Friendly Reminder please have an e-collar ready before you need it......
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 08:38 AM
09/29/08 08:38 AM
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YEAH Michelle!! I hope you are feeling great today. You SHOULD be. You have done everything you can, and that is more than most people do (OK, people on GC are usually an exception to this rule) As Suggie owners we feel we need to educate people on the Sugar Glider, and I think that is the correct stand to make! Like all animals, and activists, GOOD correct information is the real weapon, and you seem to be fully armed. The first week I had my gliders, I saw (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets at a fair here in SC, and I was running around giving my phone number to strangers. I get it! Another good deed you are doing is to motivate those other people on GC to do the same when they see (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets at their local festival! So, I digress... I hope you feel GREAT today!! Love, Sari
*Whatever I said, I said it with a Smile* Sari Sugar Nibbles Destiny Rapid Runner *Sold Out! Suggie Smart Mart *Home of The Hippie Pouch & Suggie Chandelier
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 10:11 AM
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Ooooh Sari, I wish I knew you then. I almost got arrested at that fair! And, I didn't even DO anything, but the cop kept telling me to shut up and I kept saying, But, isn't this a free country? I have a right to speak with whomever I choose to speak to whether you like it or not. He kept threatening to arrest me and I kept saying, explain to me what I've done WRONG and I will correct it. He finally told he he was going to throw me to the ground!! I was like, calm down Barney....no need to get violent....LOL
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 10:15 AM
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Laurie, sadly, money can buy protection for these mill breeders. I am so proud of everyone that goes out and tries to get the word out about these people......(guess there is one good thing to living in place they won't be able to sell in.......)
Timmy, Gidget(RIP), Bandit, Petey(RIP), Phoebe, Jake (RIP) Piper(RIP), Pru(RIP), Paige, Cole, Molly(RIP), Oliver, Wyatt, Roo(RIP), Romeo, Pennie, Mandy(RIP), Madison, Garth, Kikipoo, Stasia, Bella, Petunia(RIP), Helen, Sydney, Kizzy and Sweet Pea's mom, Mary
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 10:18 AM
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suggiemom
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Yep, you got a point there. Until recently, GA was an illegal state and the minute they changed the law, they set up shop. I'm already hearing of gliders in rescue.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 10:29 AM
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I've said it before, will say it again. I am so on the fence on the law changing. I LOVE suggies and think for the right people, they are wonderful.....but they are so cute, it is way too easy to impulse buy them. I don't want them to be 'the new cute critter to have', to be dumped 6 months later, wild and scared. It is sad.
Timmy, Gidget(RIP), Bandit, Petey(RIP), Phoebe, Jake (RIP) Piper(RIP), Pru(RIP), Paige, Cole, Molly(RIP), Oliver, Wyatt, Roo(RIP), Romeo, Pennie, Mandy(RIP), Madison, Garth, Kikipoo, Stasia, Bella, Petunia(RIP), Helen, Sydney, Kizzy and Sweet Pea's mom, Mary
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 10:40 AM
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peace
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Ok off to the fair now. wish me luck.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 11:02 AM
09/29/08 11:02 AM
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SariYappa
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GOOD LUCK COMING YOUR WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. Do some shopping while your there, and calm down. We don't want to hear anymore about "chest pains"... ok????
Last edited by SariYappa; 09/29/08 11:02 AM.
*Whatever I said, I said it with a Smile* Sari Sugar Nibbles Destiny Rapid Runner *Sold Out! Suggie Smart Mart *Home of The Hippie Pouch & Suggie Chandelier
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 06:23 PM
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peace
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Ok I am back early today. WHY? Because they are not selling them today . Ok now they say they are out of pouchs and will not sell without the bonding pouch,but I also heard they had no more . Sold out So I do not know whats up . But they will be selling tommrow . I went to the office again and said hey nobody has got back to me yet and I wanna know why. Well again I give my name and info. Karen which is some how involved did talk to me and assured me that her and Mark (the CEO of the fair) would check it out as soon as his meeting was over. Any how I went ahead and left because they are in fact not selling the gliders (I will go back tonight late to be sure)before leaving I went back to the office to see if any thing had happened. Reseptionist (sp) said no. I said well I will be back tommrow see ya. So for 6 hours no gliders where sold!!!
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 07:00 PM
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Larchan
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I hope something is done. It's so sad that the people who run these state fairs don't know/don't care about who they allow to be vendors. Would they allow a known puppy mill to set up a booth? I kept my eyes open at the Missouri State Fair back in August, but I didn't see any glider booths or hear anyone talking about gliders. I hope they feel like it's small enough so that it's not worth their expense to come.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/29/08 11:21 PM
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets
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09/30/08 08:08 AM
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SariYappa
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Michelle, maybe that was just their excuse? They probably weren't making any money because of some angel that was educating people, so they took the rest of the day off!
*Whatever I said, I said it with a Smile* Sari Sugar Nibbles Destiny Rapid Runner *Sold Out! Suggie Smart Mart *Home of The Hippie Pouch & Suggie Chandelier
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets UPDATED
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09/30/08 08:48 AM
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets UPDATED
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09/30/08 09:57 AM
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Michelle, is there anyway that you can find out how they recieve these gliders? I know that is asking a lot, but it would help because there are laws about how animals can be shipped. Some states require inspection of animals shipped into the state. Some don't. I have no clue how to find out. I am gussing they will arrive by vehicle. Oklahoma has no requirements.
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Re: Tulsa State Fair & Pocket Pets UPDATED
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09/30/08 10:20 AM
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Poor little joeys!!! I am just sick over this...
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