Here at The Sugar Shack, our sugar glider family lives in Glider Grove.

        Glider Grove is a glider-proof area right in “the suggie mama’s” own home.  In an effort to offer the proper amount of environmental stimulus to our sugar gliders, this room has been equipped with a custom 5-story play gym, glider swings, sisal bungies, red lighting, and an extensive rope network that covers the entire ceiling. All of our sugar gliders receive time out of their cage inside Glider Grove on a daily basis, along with plenty of human interaction.

        Both ionization and HEPA filtration methods are used to purify the air within our Glider Grove. To provide ease in sanitation, we use easily laundered blankets and rugs during playtime to soften the sealed porcelain tile floor.  The walls of the room are painted in soothing forest tones and coated with a scrubbable polyacrylic finish.  We even made sure that the surface of each ceiling panel was cleanable.  "The Grove" was completed in late December 2003 and opened to rave reviews by the toughest of critics...  our gliders!

Nutritionally speaking, either monkey biscuits or glider cereal is supplied to all Glider Grove gliders 24 hours a day as a staple.  On a nightly basis, our sugar gliders are fed a varying combination of exotic fruits, common vegetables, and specific protein sources in conjunction with live mealworms and other insects.  Here in Glider Grove we choose to feed 4 nights of The Sugar Glider Exotic Diet with rotating protein sources and The Pet Glider Multivitamin.  However, every fifth night we choose to offer Darcy’s Diet with its Ensure vitamin supplement as a special treat for our gliders.

        A veterinary check up is provided for each of our Glider Grove gliders on an annual basis or more frequently if necessary.  Our veterinarian of choice is Dr. Edward Spindel, MS, DVM, Director of The Animal Ark Veterinary Hospital in Baldwinsville, New York.  Dr. Spindel is a 1984 Cornell university graduate and has returned to lecture at Cornell on the subject of exotic animal medicine and surgery.  He is a field associate for The Burnet Park Zoo, in addition to holding the position of President of the Board of Directors for the Burnet Park Zoo.  Our thanks go out to Dr. Spindel and his staff for the wonderful care he has offered our sugar gliders and for the prompt service that his staff has offered to us.