I think it's pretty sad of you to say that all glider owners are unemployed! No WE'RE NOT! MANY of us have jobs and the few who don't I'm sure have other jobs such as being a mom, or taking care of their little sug's like YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN!
You should not even have the little guys if you can't devote enough time to them to care and love each of them in their own special way! And that means doing EVERYTHING you possibly can to care for them and care for their well being! OBVIOUSLY YOU MISSED THIS PART IN BEING A PET OWNER!
If any of us on Glider Central, or any of us Glider owners would have been the owner of Moxy, she'd still be alive!
But it's clear to all of us other glider owners that you are FAR TOO caught up in yourself and ANN TAYLOR to own pets! You're a sad representation of a glider or pet owner and you shouldn't have anything living with you, even a child because it's clear your well being comes first!
PATHETIC!

You KNEW there was a problem and purposefully ignored the situation. Your whole second paragraph makes that point clear. That is total, complete, and utter blatant animal neglect. I am appalled at the lack of action on your part to do anything but go to sleep that night! Having animals is accepting responsibility for their lives, which you so callously ignored. It makes my heart sad indeed to hear how the lil guy was crying and clinging to you.

If a captive animal breeds and the offspring are rejected, we have a few more options at our disposal than a wild animal would have. Should a blind or three limbed joey not have a chance at life in captivity? Aren't those things we can compensate for? I had a stray cat that I fed that had babies. She abandoned them without even opening the sacks. I had to raise them from day one. I took them to the vet, who was supportive but told me that the odds are about 1 in 4 that they would survive. Well, I tipped the odds because all four survived and were so healthy.

Yes, it was tough to feed them every two hours but it was worth it. Maybe this you may not have had the time that I did, but you didn't even try to find help for him! If you would've put a post on www.sugarglider.net (or any other sugar glider website; there are many out there) and said, "this glider is going to die tonight if someone doesn't pick him up", your front door would've been crowded with people willing to help this poor joey no matter what it took.
Two words:irresponsible and despicable

Redeem yourself and research more into the proper care of animals and get your suggies neutered so this never happens again or give your animals to more responsible and compassionate individuals.

I agree with the comments left by MacKenzie & Leisl, so I won't repeat it.
I just want to tell you again that sugarglider owners are not unemployed but if you choose to own and breed a glider you are making a commitment to that animals that you failed to honor! I will have you know that I have 3 children, and 3 gliders, along with 6 other animals and it the day came when a joey was rejected, I would make time to help it!
You let that poor joey be eaten alive unnecessarily!
If you truely do not have the time, Call me! I will take the joey and hand raise it myself!
-Krys
KrysKritters.com

Mental illness?! Your telling me! Get over yourself and try to think more about the animals needs instead of how saving a life will affect yours! Do you not understand that animals in your care need excactly that, care, regardless. Unbelieveable.

I'll refer all of you to my newest post on the subject, which is the top post on my homepage.

I have a full-time job, three rental properties which I own and manage, and I’m a full-time mom. Yet I have close to a dozen gliders, including two breeding pairs. Your comment was quite erroneous. I simply have accepted the fact that if any of my pets were hurt or ill, I would take the time, and spend the money needed to bring them back to full health. That’s the decision you must make when you purchase or adopt a pet.

The difference between owning gliders and deciding to breed gliders (or any animal) is making the decision that if something goes wrong with the mating, pregnancy, birth, baby(s) development or anything else that you WILL accept ALL the responsibility. That means you go without sleep for awhile, you pay vet bills to have emergency care, and you most certainly don't step back and simply let them suffer and die without even trying.

You really need to have your male(s) neutered and realize that you are not in a position to breed right now. In fact, you may want to consider that since a vet visit wasn’t even an option for you, pet ownership is probably not a good idea right now. Maybe in the future, when you have more money, or time, or whatever it is that you felt prevented you from taking action to prevent the death of your baby. But you’ve proven to yourself that you really don’t want that responsibility right now, and a baby has had to die to prove it. That should be enough.

How horrible. Thoose little sugargliders should eat YOU alive.
Don't start what you can't finish. Give the suggies away to someone who can take care of them for the rest of their lives "NO MATTER WHAT". Suggies live for too long. They become like your children, you should treat them as such.
You are nasty.

I will refer you now to the discussion on this matter that continues on my homepage. My response specifically to you guys is here:

http://trouble.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/2007/04/geez.html#comments

Just like I thought, you are not a true reporter! You don't even comment back on anything that any of us have said! REAL REPORTERS, read the comments left in reguards to one of their articles! You probably haven't even read any of these! Or you have and you don't comment back because you know that we are ALL RIGHT! Either way you're still pathetic and a sad excuse for an aninmal owner! I never thought I'd hear myself say this but I think I have more respect for backyard breeders than you, and that is a HARD PLACE TO GET WITH ME, but you've managed it! I will give you props on that! The only thing that you HAVE accomplished!

dang people, cut the woman a break, you people are a bunch of bleeding heart fools. I have pets and I love them, but in the end they are still animals. you people are the type of people who take everything a little too seriously and paint everyone in the hobby with a patina of lunacy

Although I feel that you may haave been capable of doing a bit more with the baby, I feel the need to remind all present that people are pretty delicate, too, and the author isn't just some heartless monster that kills baby gliders for fun. She obviously was very fond of it and felt SOMETHING strongly enough to keep her from trying everything. It's regrettable, and very sad, but in my point of view, it would've turned out the same way in the wild, right...?

Luan, I'd refer you to this

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0901-04.htm

She took the responsibility and failed to try to take care of her. She put her job above a LIFE that she created. By breeding those animals it's as if it was her own baby, and she may as well have killed her own baby.

Sometimes in nature hard choices have to be made.
To kill the young that will not survive, but rather suffer for what short life that manage to have.
Obviously the auhor cares about the poor things wellbeing, but was resigned to the fact that sometimes nature has to take it's course.
You people who wanna take a stab at her are the real animals here. And it is you I question as to how you sleep at night?
Somewhere in being part of the human race their is empathy, obviously you creatures of pure hatred and filth of the soul have forgotten that.
Think about it.

Wow... you people are worse than PETA, give her a break. She even explained why she didn't too... man...

Rofl at all you people pissed off. Thats what would have happened in nature. Hell, I would have eaten the damn thing

Those of you taking up for this woman are obviously NOT Sugar Glider owners. You probably have no experience with Sugar Gliders and probably have no clue as to what kind of a commitment that it takes to be a RESPONSIBLE Sugar Glider owner.

Personally I feel that clueless people should not even be allowed to comment in the first place because you clueless people have no idea of what it is like to be a RESPONSIBLE Sugar Glider owner.

To give you an idea of what it takes go watch this video I made.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7469723554658231938&hl=en

Some of you people are rediculous. How would you like to try and hobble around on 2 limbs for the rest of your life? There is a reason that the parents rejected the underdeveloped joey and kept the other one. They have that instinct for a reason. If you want to be technical, these animals should have never been taken from the wild and kept as pets in the first place. She said she sought an opinion and no one would give her an answer. Some people are alot more limited in recourses than others, and as is the case with many small or uncommon animals, information obtained from the internet or the local pet store, or even that from a vet can not always be deemed reliable.

All you people on here acting all high and mighty give me the giggles. She did what she knew to do. It's called natural selection. She learned something in the process, even if the thing she learned was not to post a blog on a public forum if she didn't want to get attacked and harrassed by a bunch of people who show more compassion to animals than thier fellow human beings.

I can't believe how cruel you people are! what makes you think you can take something like a sugar glider out of its natural habbitat. Someone should take you and lock you in a dark 5X5 room and play with you when they feel like, IF they feel like it. LOL, and most of you apparntly can't read...she said "Are a high number of sugar-glider owners unemployed?" See begining a sentence with "Are" and ending it with a "?" indicates that its a question and not a statement in the English language. haha, you guys are silly.