We started by taking in gliders with social issues like biting, not eating, and not bonding. This very quickly turned to gliders with health issues. We have had everything from vitamin deficiency to gliders coming to us ripped open. We have an excellent exotic vet we use if a glider is beyond our help. Now with all the FLY-BY-NIGHT Breeders, who sell as many gliders as they can with as few question as possible. We have come across too many owners who were not given enough information to properly take care for their sugar gliders. This has brought on the influx of owners needing to rehome their gliders, due to their inability to give the glider the time and care they need. 

One of the more common medical problems associated with sugar gliders is hind-leg paralysis, or HLP, which is typically easily recognized by a loss of function in your pet's back legs. 

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​Hind-leg paralysis is caused by a lack of calcium being supplied to your sugar glider's bones, either due to a poor diet or because its body is channeling resources elsewhere. Weakened bones, muscles, and joints make it difficult for your glider to move around as usual, eventually causing it to drag itself by its front limbs. The sooner you recognize this disorder, the better the odds that it can be treated and reversed. 

This is the same for everything. If anything is too large to exercise. It will have health concerns.

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This is caused from poor diets, and or too much food.