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Diet:

Stress is easy to recognize if you use some common sense, such as an incorrect diet causing diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, picking at food, or loss of appetite. Things like tremors and shaking are usually caused by fear and stress, or even sudden grabbing or dropping, but incorrect diet will cause malnutrition or starving of the weakened sugar glider, with shaking and tremors both signs of its development. Research the correct foods to feed the sugar glider as an incorrect diet will kill them eventually due to their small size.

Disease is caused by stress, with the wrong type of food making it even worse. Together, the sugar glider stands no chance of survival. Incorrect diet will eventually wear the little pet's body down and cause things like hind leg paralysis. This is a potentially fatal disease, caused by low calcium to phosphorous ratios. Fresh diets with supplement can fix this, usually given by a vet. And if they do not like the food, they will not eat it. Monitor their food consumption, as they can easily starve. Low weight and lethargic behavior are signs of this sort of stress, eventually with them vomiting. If cat food is given to the sugar glider, their body will develop stress and things like lumpy jaw and intestinal blockage will occur, with death occurring from calcium deficiency and liver problems.

Behavior:

Stressed sugar glider will show a change in behavior, such as self-mutilation of their penis, tail, limbs or scrotum. They may also even attack another sugar glider or you. And because stress causes an increase in steroid production, another sign of stress would be hair loss in the little animal due to either chewing at their fur or too much steroids.

Normal behavior in a sugar glider should be something its owner eventually will understand with enough time and patience, the same as when they develop stressful behavior. The more time an owner spends with the sugar glider, the easier it is to recognize abnormal or changed behavior and signs of stress. Recognizing the basics of sugar glider behavior allows one to understand what they want and what they do not want.

A real biggie is to understand the vocalization of the little sugar glider, and how they communicate to you and each other. The most common sounds they make are crabbing, barking, hissing and sneezing. Feeling stressed usually accompanies crabbing, a loud sound which means they are frightened, angry, annoyed or nervous. But if you hear short little barks, they are

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