Single or More

    Sugar gliders are highly sociable animals and live in the wild as colony animals. Although it may be okay to own just own glider, it is better and highly recommended to own at least a pair of gliders.

To my knowledge, it has not been 100% proven a single glider cannot survive. There are people who own only one and they seem to do just fine but since they can't talk, they can't tell us if they are depressed or lonely. Of course you can watch for behavior changes but what if you are a new owner and the glider has been alone its whole life? If they are already depressed or lonely, you wouldn't notice any change in their behavior and would more than likely think their behavior is normal. 

 Single gliders, if they become depressed and/or lonely can stop eating, over groom themselves and even self - mutilate. 

If you are a new owner and have a single glider, please do NOT flip out and think your glider is going to die! You should absolutely try to find a cage mate for him or her but in the meantime, it is important to spend as much time with your fuzz butt as possible. Talk to your glider, sing to them, walk around the house with them, put them in a bonding pouch, do tent time.... whatever you need to do in order to spend as much time with them as you can. Your lone baby could do perfectly fine for days, months and even years but would would you want to spend all that time alone? Would you want to be around others who only spoke foreign to you and couldn't understand you? Do you think your glider wants to? Probably not.

~ Happy Gliding Everyone 😙