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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: tournesoul] #1089921
03/24/11 08:22 PM
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Thats horrible Hannah! Im sorry you had to go through that! But I can feel where you are coming from. People thinking my suggies are rats, or im crazy i want a colony. They think im going to become a hoarder. They dont understand these fuzzbutts have something different about them. WHen it comes to pets, some people just dont understand. I recently had to bury our 17 year old cat. We gave her a nice place to rest and a headstone. People at my work and some extended family think im weird for doing all of that. Its sickening that I have to diffend anything I do that doesnt hurt anyone else. They become family!!

On a side note, I def agree with the toddler comment. I just tried to clip buttons nails this afternoon after work. She didnt crab one bit (for once) but wouldnt sit still no matter how hard I tried. Lil stinker smile

We need to make some videos for Lindsay showing her the life of a suggie owner. That way she knows what its like smile


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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: tournesoul] #1089925
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Well, mine are "the monkeys" through and through. Everyone knows that's what I call them and it's because that's what they remind me of and have from the moment I laid eyes on them. My uncle had a pet monkey - so smart, so cuddly, so quick, so fun and naughty! My monkeys, to a T.

Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: IslandGliders] #1089980
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Originally Posted By: IslandGliders


Thank you! Oh how I loved them. Each one had their own personality. And they were so many different colors, fur types, ear types. I had some "plain" ones and some rarer ones... loved 'em all the same.

What made me switch? You basically answered the question yourself. cry I would bond with these amazing little creatures and then I'd lose them usually at or around their second birthday. You never get used to it.

I also made the big mistake of having a large colony of girl ratties that were all about the same age. Losing one pet = hard, losing four pets in a month = I couldn't even get out of bed in the morning.

So lifespan was about a third of the reason, another third was that my husband developed allergies to rats, and the last third would be, as Mastiff_Mama said: you just get tired of defending them. It is so pleasant now to talk about my gliders and have people be intrigued instead of repulsed.

I have a Doberman Pinscher (a breed with a completely unfounded bad rap), so you'd think I'd be immune to the nasty comments, but I'm not. It's really painful to have people put down your pet, make jokes about poisoning them or trapping them, or their cat eating them. It was ridiculous what people felt they could say to me just because I had rats. It got to the point that I NEVER mentioned my rats around people I didn't know extremely well.


I cannot imagine (losing the four...) I couldnt function when I lost Andi, my black lab. I have had three labs I have had to put to sleep but b/c she was younger and looked like a puppy still with a colic on her nose, it was esp hard!! I had people tell me to "get over it! just get another dog!"
Some people just dont get it... Dogs become what they are taught to become. M Vicks pits were fighters mostly b/c its what HE wanted! They so badly want to please!!

Thanks for sharing that with me!

Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: xSwtxSugaX] #1090529
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Originally Posted By: xSwtxSugaX

We need to make some videos for Lindsay showing her the life of a suggie owner. That way she knows what its like smile


That would be FABULOUS!!

Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: tournesoul] #1090545
03/26/11 12:38 PM
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I found this when I first started researching suggies and this has been pretty much the way I describe ours...

With the face of an opossum, the stripe of a skunk, the tail and ears of a squirrel, the fur of a rabbit, the body of a flying squirrel, the fingers of a monkey and the thumb of a frog, how can you possibly resist the strange and compelling allure of these small creatures?


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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: Vona] #1090782
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Originally Posted By: Vona
and the thumb of a frog,

I dont think I have paid too many frogs that close attention smile




how can you possibly resist the strange and compelling allure of these small creatures?
I am having a hard time doing just that :):)

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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: tournesoul] #1091663
03/28/11 04:33 PM
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I always compare my suggies to flying squirrels but only because they look so much like one...actually more like a chipmunk, however their personalities are very different than any animals I've owned. They have some of the cat personality...love to snuggle, play with feathers and balls, and sleep all day and be petted, yet then u mix in a bit of racoon...they playful miscevious side, add the fur of a bunny and the wings of a bat and you have yourself a suggie.


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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: lilangels] #1091873
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Originally Posted By: lilangels
however their personalities are very different than any animals I've owned.....


I think that is what has me so captivated!! Though they certainly are adorable too smile

Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: tournesoul] #1092432
03/29/11 10:21 PM
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Oh Hannah! I grew up being part of a fancy rat breeders club and had many rats and they are VERY intelligent! They DO remind me a lot of suggies in terms of bond. I used to bring one rat in particular out on my shoulder in high school.

Despite how much I LOVE rats; though; I am going to have to go with monkey. Rats are SUPER laid back. Suggies are just, busier; quicker reflexes, etc.

Monkey because of the way they move and play. They really do act alot like monkeys; not like squirrels. However, their likeness to a flying squirrel is undeniable; so I always tell people they look like a flying squirrel and act like a monkey smile

But lately I have been noticing how much their faces look like bears. Really, look at my little picture on the left; does that not look like a finger sized bear? I know it is uncouth to call them sugar bears; so I will not, but I am finally getting why anyone called them that. And the hands. I didn't get it at first; people talked about their hands and I kinda thought they looked big and ugly. But now those hands are what melts my heart the most; they look like ferocious bear hands on a teeny tiny animal! So cute!


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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: tournesoul] #1092438
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I have been noticing the bat likeness as of late; though. I may change my answer in a year smile


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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: tournesoul] #1092499
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I describe sugar gliders as a cross between a dog, cat, chinchilla, flying squirrel, monkey and a kangaroo.

They bark like a dog, play and hunt like a cat, they have fur like a chinchilla, glide like a flying squirrel, apposeable thumbs like a monkey and have their babies like a kangaroo does.


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Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: meri] #1092504
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Originally Posted By: meri
I have been noticing the bat likeness as of late; though. I may change my answer in a year smile


I liked your first answer but you can change your mind!!! ~ anytime you like smile smile

Re: what would you compare a suggie to? [Re: Feather] #1092507
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Originally Posted By: Feather
I describe sugar gliders as a cross between a dog, cat, chinchilla, flying squirrel, monkey and a kangaroo.

They bark like a dog, play and hunt like a cat, they have fur like a chinchilla, glide like a flying squirrel, apposeable thumbs like a monkey and have their babies like a kangaroo does.


Well no wonder they are not the easiest pets to have... smile
I mean that in a loving manner, of course!! thumb

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