Please have the sense to say "no" if your son or daughter ever asks you if they can have a sugar glider. Sugar gliders are noisy, smelly and freak people out. They live part time in a pouch that is carried around your neck so you can "bond" with the creature. They look like a hybrid cross between a rat and a bat.
Kelsey called me several years ago, while on a trip to Utah. She wanted to bring home sugar gliders, two to be exact. She had everything she needed, the cage, the pouch, their food and a tent. All she wanted was our permission and stupidly, without much thought, we gave it.
The minute she walked through the front door of the house we knew we had made a terrible error in judgement. The cage was huge and the sugar gliders were scary. They had bulging eyes and brown fur and moved in jerks and twitches. They made a screeching sound followed by a gurgle. These animals were wild and you had to put them in a tent with you to play with them. They would run around and jump from person to person in the tent. They really freaked me out.
One of the foods they ate were mealy worms. Kelsey would feed them the worms and they would gobble them up. One time, only once, one of the worms got away and slithered into Addison's room. You can't imagine the screams that were heard bouncing off those walls.
They stayed in Kelsey's room and they made a complete mess of everything. They had a distinct odor that was not pleasant. They would climb on the side of the cage and poop which would then be slung on the walls. They were nocturnal and you could hear them jumping around in their cage in the dead of night. I would go in to check on Kelsey late in the evening and they would jump at me against the cage with wide, bulging eyes and send me into shock. I am begging you not to let your children bring home pets that you have not observed in action.
Only Roderick's make those kinds of mistakes.
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