Posted By: Kitkatt1216
Overweight sugar gliders... - 10/11/11 03:46 AM
What are the best ways to encourage weight lose in a sugar glider?
Murphy is actually quite overweight, and despite all my efforts I cannot get him to lose anything. He's always been big, but now this is going beyond "fluffy". Everyone else in the cage is normal weight. We've tried changing diets, and cutting back on portions. I've tried putting him in places to encourage more jumping, but he won't do it. He use to be my big jumper, but seems to slowly get lazier and lazier. I'm worried about his health if we can't do something about the weight issue.
We are currently feeding HPW complete. He gets out of the cage for at least two hours at least three times a week, and for a shorter amount of time one or two other nights. He has a wheel in his cage that he use to spend the whole night in, and now only spends a few minutes in.
I'm reluctant to keep changing diets or cutting back portions when everyone else in the cage is healthy. Does anyone have any other ideas that I might not have tried yet?
Murphy is actually quite overweight, and despite all my efforts I cannot get him to lose anything. He's always been big, but now this is going beyond "fluffy". Everyone else in the cage is normal weight. We've tried changing diets, and cutting back on portions. I've tried putting him in places to encourage more jumping, but he won't do it. He use to be my big jumper, but seems to slowly get lazier and lazier. I'm worried about his health if we can't do something about the weight issue.
We are currently feeding HPW complete. He gets out of the cage for at least two hours at least three times a week, and for a shorter amount of time one or two other nights. He has a wheel in his cage that he use to spend the whole night in, and now only spends a few minutes in.
I'm reluctant to keep changing diets or cutting back portions when everyone else in the cage is healthy. Does anyone have any other ideas that I might not have tried yet?