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Re: Single Gliders May Self Mutilate
[Re: KarenE]
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12/11/13 05:22 PM
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sugarlope
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Signs can differ from glider to glider. But the big red flags that I have heard of are lethargy (reduced activity level), loss of appetite (and loss of weight), sleeping too much (or more than usual), overgrooming, unusual crabbiness, unusual hours of wakefulness (like being awake during the day). I have also heard of some gliders circling in their cages (literally just running around in a circle, usually at the top of their cage) or showing repetitive behaviors like climbing to the top of their cage, then jumping down, back up again...over and over.
~Gretchen
If we never loved, then maybe we would never feel pain. Love anyway. It's worth it.
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Re: Single Gliders May Self Mutilate
[Re: KarenE]
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08/02/15 09:30 AM
08/02/15 09:30 AM
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Posts: 38 Houston, TX
SuggieSamantha
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Houston, TX
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Fact. The title says May, not will. They MAY out of loneliness or depression. A glider can survive on it's own, usually with a shorter lifespan on average than a glider kept in a colony, but there is a definite possibility of them becoming depressed. Even if they are not depressed, they greatly benefit from having cage mates. People will try to compare gliders to dogs and say dogs do ok on their own but dogs don't live the majority of their lives in cages. They are highly domesticated animals that don't spend the majority of their waking hours alone. Gliders are exotic, barely domesticated, and hardly any owners are going to be up with them all night and sleeping with them all day.
Loki Billy Skittle Wheezer
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Re: Single Gliders May Self Mutilate
[Re: SuggieSamantha]
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08/02/15 10:44 AM
08/02/15 10:44 AM
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Srlb
Glideritis Anonymous
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Glideritis Anonymous
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A glider can survive on it's own, usually with a shorter lifespan on average than a glider kept in a colony, but there is a definite possibility of them becoming depressed. I think there is a possibility of a glider becoming depressed even within a colony. I have a single glider here who is over 7 years of age. She has been a single glider for over 5 years now. Not only is she by herself, she has no cloaca. She has never shown any signs of being depressed or lonely. The key thing is to offer many different ways for mental stimulation. We often think because we place gliders together in a cage and create a colony, be it two gliders or more than two, they are happier. This is not always the case, and certainly not always the case for long term. In the wild gliders change up colony status every two years. We do not offer them that in captivity. For some reason, somewhere down the road, we have been lead to believe gliders are monogamous and they are not. I often times stress, not only is the diet a key factor to having longevity in your animals but mental stimulation is also a very very key role. It does not matter if you have one or a thousand of them.
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