Hill Haven Sugar Gliders

Thank you to those who came out to support us in the parade.

Chuckles the Sugar Glider charms the crowd at his first appearance ever today in the Illinois College Homecoming Parade.

As he pranced his way along the parade path children charged up to grab a quick hug. Talk about showing a sugar glider some TLC!

Wanna show your sugar glider pride? Then march with Chuckles at the next parade.

Two awesome suggies find a mother to love today.

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This new mommy will begin learning about how to care for them and start the bonding process next week. Scooter and Cleo can't wait to settle into their new home. 

Meeko and Ollie are on the look out for a new family. Might that be you? These twin boys are handsome and charming. What more could you ask for? If the idea of welcoming these buds into your family is interesting please contact us.

We enjoyed a weekend full of talking to people about our favorite subject sugar gliders at the Prairie Land Heritage Museum's Steam Show and Fall Festival 2009.

Our mission is to teach as many people as possible about sugar gliders and how to care for and love them. Thru this one event we were able to reach over 500 people.

Not only did the humans enjoy the weekend but...

so did this fur child.

The boys have found themselves a home on the east coast so they headed out on the Glider Railroad Express. They were very excited to meet their new dad in Williamsburg, VA today! We wish you well boys.

Today I met Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and Bell for the first time. These are terrific gliders looking for a loving home.

BEFORE you buy gliders ask yourself if over the next 10- 15 years will you be able to give a glider between 2-4 hours of time a day. Sugar gliders are not very hard to care for. They need about 1/2 hour a day in cleaning cage pan and feed cups. Feeding them frozen mixed vegatables, fruit, and pellets or mealworms, fresh water, calcium and vitamins daily only takes about 10 minutes. That kind of caring for them is easy. However, the time that sugar gliders really need from us humans is TLC TIME. In order to have a fantastic pet sugar glider YOU MUST SPEND BONDING TIME WITH THEM DAILY. They need food and clean cages but they also need your time.

Cleo and Scooter are the sweetest suggies ever. They are seeking a new mom or dad with time to spend with them.

Young Nic got one of his hind feet twisted up in loose string in the sleeping pouch and it severed his foot off. I played with him before cleaning cages in the morning and he was fine. When I put out food in the evening I played with him again and he was fine then too. However, when I went to play with my gliders later that night I noticed Nic wasn't moving around normally so I pulled him out to get a closer look and discoverd that one of his hind feet was gone. At first I thought maybe mom or dad had hurt him but that made no sense because his parents had never done anything like this before (Nic was their 8th litter). So I began checking out the cage to see if there was something that might have done this. Everything checked out and there wasn't any obvious reason for the mishap. Then I looked into the sleeping pouch and found that there were loose strings inside and by the looks of it this is where the accident had occured. I had heard about gliders getting caught in loose strings and dying because owners never checked to see if their gliders were actually coming out of their sleeping pouches. So I always check on my gliders after dark to make sure that everyone is out eating and playing. But I learned a hard lesson today not only should we check that gliders are out we also need to inspect their pouches for loose threads that they can get caught up in. Mom and Dad  have already been tending to his injury and are even more protective of him now so he should be okay with them but I'll be keeping a very close eye on them just to be sure.

I am pleased to announce that the 2 male brothers that were turned over to us have found a loving home to go to.

Thank you Morris family.