Betweem college years my oldest daughter worked at a pet store. They liked each assosiate to be an expert on one particular animal and since they recently had an employee who was the sugar glider expert quit, this job was kind of handed over to my daughter. She very quickly learned about this little animal and sold many of them. Of course we bought a female. One day someone called the store asking to speak to the sugar glider expert, he had a male and all of the cage and equipment that he wanted to give her! So now we had a bredding pair! Those little boogers like to get it on.
Another one of the policies at the store was that if anyone had stray or injured animals just to bring them in and some employee would take them home and nurse them back to health. There are an awful lot of orphaned baby rabbits from lawn mower accidents. So we hand fed a lot of baby rabbits! We also had baby birds that fell out of trees. That didn't work out as well. You can nurse them only so far but you can't trach them how to fly.
As she sold her sugar gliders, some of the owners wanted her to take the babies home and train them before they took possesion of them.
We even had several domeestic rabbits. Did you know that some people actually try to potty train theur domestic rabbits? Trust me, it doesn't work. All in all we had about 50 different animals that summer. That was in addition to the two snakes that she bought and our own dog.
Buddy was a Shelty. He would be so funny when the baby rabbits would get out of thier cage. He wouldn't stop until he had them all herded back where they belonged!
Of course she kept her own sugar gliders but she went back to school. Where did the sugar gliders go? No, they didn't go back to school, Mom and little sister took care of them. They pop out an average of 3 babys a year and they seel for anywhere from $100 to $250 a piece according to where the market it. That breeder pair made 'her' a lot of money. But they were fun.....if you could train them. untrained and they are a nightmare.
After Buddy died we waited until my husband felt ready, I was immediately ready, to get another pet. I wanted a cat. So several years ago my youngest daughter bought me a cat from the local humane society for Mothers day. Adora is the love of out life, she just doesn't like our grandchidren
