Posted By: Anonymous
Glider Lifepspan in Captivity - 06/04/07 08:07 AM
I have been curious lately. What's the oldest any glider in captivity that we know of has lived. And if you can give me any examples, can you also tell me their diet was? Lemme guess...catfood... 
( Just honestly curious. I've seen a lot of people who post here mentioning that theirs were 5-7 years but I've never see any who have lived longer...of course there may be many, I just may have missed it. I'mn still pretty new to this site as well as to gliders in general. But boy oh boy am I spending a LOT researching and learning...both from all of you here and on my own. Being owned by gliders is soooo much more than having a "pet". Not only do you get to see how wild animals instincts have not been weeded out so they still behave as if they were in the wild and that is VERY interesting to watch, but also...I have been dealing with depresion for years and it's got especially bad in the last year. After I got the gliders, my depresion started to lift. There's just something so pure about letting the crawl all over you and jump on your head only give you either face hugs or wet willies. I really consider being owned by them almost like a hobby. It give me something to do hobby-wise. I had all but given up on hobbies with the depression but now that I have so much to do with them, it really has become a hobby as well as a relationsihp. And on top of all that, it gives my 10 daughter and I something to work on together and that makes for special memories. Even my 5 yo son who was intially afraid when they crawled on him in the tent. Now he asks to go to the tent everynight and if they don't choose him to jump on he gets upset.
Wooo, didn't mean for this to end up so long. Really, the only question I had was...what is the oldest age anybody knows about (or more than one example) amd of you know, if you could please tell me what they were eating or if they were eating one of the "approved" diets or making their own. If they were using one of the aproved ones, whidh one? Thank you in advance for any insight you could provide.
( Just honestly curious. I've seen a lot of people who post here mentioning that theirs were 5-7 years but I've never see any who have lived longer...of course there may be many, I just may have missed it. I'mn still pretty new to this site as well as to gliders in general. But boy oh boy am I spending a LOT researching and learning...both from all of you here and on my own. Being owned by gliders is soooo much more than having a "pet". Not only do you get to see how wild animals instincts have not been weeded out so they still behave as if they were in the wild and that is VERY interesting to watch, but also...I have been dealing with depresion for years and it's got especially bad in the last year. After I got the gliders, my depresion started to lift. There's just something so pure about letting the crawl all over you and jump on your head only give you either face hugs or wet willies. I really consider being owned by them almost like a hobby. It give me something to do hobby-wise. I had all but given up on hobbies with the depression but now that I have so much to do with them, it really has become a hobby as well as a relationsihp. And on top of all that, it gives my 10 daughter and I something to work on together and that makes for special memories. Even my 5 yo son who was intially afraid when they crawled on him in the tent. Now he asks to go to the tent everynight and if they don't choose him to jump on he gets upset.Wooo, didn't mean for this to end up so long. Really, the only question I had was...what is the oldest age anybody knows about (or more than one example) amd of you know, if you could please tell me what they were eating or if they were eating one of the "approved" diets or making their own. If they were using one of the aproved ones, whidh one? Thank you in advance for any insight you could provide.