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I want to hear from the people with pets like centipedes, prarie dogs, alligators, scorpions, vultures, octupus... What is taking care of your pet like?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to have 2 sugar gliders. Very high maintenance pets. They are very social and will get depressed without enough attention. They are also group animals and when you get them you adapt them to your scent as the "home tree". This means you being gone for let's say a vacation or something will stress them out to the extreme. Since they are basically wild animals they have a very strict diet you also need to maintain, on top of them being picky eaters, can't really give them the same food more than 2 days in a row or they won't eat it. They often take a bite or two of food before throwing it and going for a new piece.
All that being said they can be very fun and loving animals. They live a long time and are quite smart. Their little hands look like people's thumbs and all and they LOVE untying knots and anything plastic that crinkles. Had them through college and had a tapestry on every wall so it was fun letting them run around the apartment free and climbing where ever. Always a good laugh when someone was over and didn't know they were out. They would lead across the room to get back to me or the cage and seeing someone freak out as they saw something dive bombing them out of their peripheral never got old. My favorite thing about them was this demonic noise called crabbing that they make when they are scared or upset.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I had a sugar glider get stuck in my room from a hole in the ceiling. I was naked and afraid and so was it.

Ended up releasing them back outside but they were so cute.