Pet Sugar Glider

There are many reasons to neuter your male glider, some of the most common reasons are:

1. They are generally less stinky. Not all gliders experience this but some of them do. To keep their odor down neuter them before their scent glands have time to develop (about 4.5-6 months out of pouch).

2. Some males have been noted that they are calmer and are more well behaved toward other animals.

3. The bald spot on the male goes away; however, if the male marks often it may reappear. This means that the bald spot might not go away, depending on how often the male marks

4. Babies : Female gliders can have babies in her pouch, be pregnant and have a baby outside of pouch simultaneously. Having a glider with joey's can be complicating, sometimes the mother will abandon the joeys leaving the owner to care for it, which is no easy task.

Some reasons that some people may not think to neuter a glider:

5. A male will sometimes, especially if he is absent of a female, try to please himself often he can obtain overactive glands, thus leading to an infection that will be expensive to diagnose, treat, and in the end a neuter is still necessary.

6. They will bark less at night.

7. If a non sexual mature female is placed with a sexually mature male and that male is not neutered there is a more likely chance that the male will try to forcibly mate with the female. The female when then have babies before they can really handle them and a rejected joey is commonly found. If the male is neutered he may try to forcibly mate with the female but there will be no rejected joey, the female might show aggression to the male afterwards.