CARING FOR KREFFT’S GLIDERS: Housing, Feeding, Health, habitat, ownership and Breeding Tips

By Vincent Wright

Caring for Krefft's Gliders: The Complete Pet Keeper's Handbook is a realistic, welfare-first guide for anyone who wants to do more than just admire "sugar gliders" in a cage and is ready to meet the full physical, social, and emotional needs of Petaurus notatus. It takes you from understanding who these nocturnal, gliding marsupials really are in the wild to giving them a safe, enriching life in your home.

You start by meeting Krefft's gliders in their natural Australian and New Guinean habitats-colonies in eucalyptus canopies, patagium-powered glides, sap-feeding, and tight family bonds-so you can see why cage size, height, and companionship are non-negotiable. The book then walks you through choosing a healthy, captive-bred glider, evaluating breeders, rescue options, and red flags so you avoid wild-caught, poorly socialised, or neglected animals.

Step by step, you learn how to design a proper "mini forest" tall, secure enclosures, safe branches, pouches, nesting boxes, wheels, and foraging toys, plus temperature, light, and humidity that match their biology. Feeding and nutrition chapters translate complex wild diets of nectar, sap, insects, and pollen into simple, repeatable menus with clear guidance on safe foods, supplements, and the mistakes that lead to obesity or metabolic bone disease.

Dedicated handling and bonding sections show how to build trust using scent, bonding pouches, tent time, and gentle routines, turning crabbing and fear into curiosity and affection. A full health toolkit covers early warning signs, parasites, injuries, stress behaviours, emergency red flags, and how to work with an experienced exotic vet, while behaviour chapters decode vocalisations, scent marking, play, hierarchy, and what boredom or loneliness really look like.

For experienced keepers, an optional breeding section explains courtship, pregnancy, pouch life, joey development, and ethical decision-making so you never produce more gliders than you can responsibly support. Woven through every chapter is a clear message: Krefft's gliders are not starter pets or toys, but long-lived, intelligent colony animals. With this handbook as your roadmap, you can offer them the space, diet, companionship, and calm, consistent care they need to thrive for many years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4BRBFH8
• ISBN13: 9798274954044
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"