sugar gliders as pets

I'm sure if you have seen them you can tell that they are very cute and sweet looking and probably fell in love at first site, but as they are cute, they have some other thing to consider before buying one as a pet.

Sugar gliders are a hard to keep pet specially because of their diet. Unlike dogs, they don't eat food that you buy at your grocery store, they cannot survive on a simple pellet food. Rather, they need to follow a somewhat complicated diet that involves eating a variety of different bugs such as grubs, meal worms and crickets.
This creatures also need bigger cages than other animals like hamsters or ferrets because when they are free they glide over long distances during the nighttime in order to feed.

Sugar gliders can be smelly animals. Although the smell is not as strong as other animals like ferrets and skunks, it can be irritating. They have glands that mark their territory and their cages with urine on a frequent basis, which means their cages can get quite messy and smelly in a short period of time.

So if you can afford their food choices, spacious housing and smelly glands, go ahead, they are sweet and they like to play (and jump); but don't buy these in a shopping impulse because you have great chances of regretting your decision if you don't know what you are getting into.