Peggy, it very well could be the opposite: If (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets did not broker gliders, then the suppliers would not likely be raising gliders. (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets is not the only animal broker to help people get set up as suppliers or the people who actually raise the animals while the broker promises to buy all of their production.

Some puppy, reptile, and small animal producers work the same way. They would not be raising that animal if they did not have a broker to buy their babies.

And I think that this original post may not actually be anything other than a way to gather comments about (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets in a concise way so that (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets can use that info. Why would someone who is not interested in gliders, w/a friend who bought a glider from (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets, know so much about it or even know that perhaps their info is not the best?

sounds very fishy to me.

Yeah, you're right. After all, why would anyone ever bother to do research for themselves beforehand on a subject that a friend asks them for advice about? Obviously any normal person would offer advice without knowing anything about what they're talking about first. Clearly a conspiracy is afoot!

Feel free to consider me a (PPP) Perfect Pocket Pets mole if you like, I don't really care. (By the way, I work for the CIA and KGB as well - yes, both simultaneously because I am that sneaky.)

On a more serious note, in general I think this thread so far has turned up a fair amount of good information. Of the recent posts I in particular would like to thank HeatherB, her post was exactly the sort of info I was hoping people would share when I started this thread.

I would really like to know about the information, if any, that we have from inside the breeder mills. When I first started breeding, I was thinking about getting into hedgies as well... and I found a mill breeder who happened to be breeding them both. This individual was having a "breeder sellout" because he finally had made enough money on the gliders and hedgies to finance his bird breeding.
I have e-mails directly from that individual about the cage sizes, food, and cleaning.
I think I may have tried to post it on GC, but I couldn't without cutting and pasting. But it is still up on GG: http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17191
The thing that stuck with me the most was that he said that I could fit 20 cages of gliders in an airline dog kennel.

Now please understand my perspective... I am with only suggies now, and I will only buy from breeders that I trust and joeys that have great lineages. I realized that you always get what you pay for when you go cheap.