Dragonrain
Well-Known Member
Wasn't quite sure where to put this, since it's more of a sugar glider question than it is about rabbits. Sorry if it's in the wrong place.
I worked with sugar gliders for 4 years before I moved to NJ. I use to live in MA, where gliders are illegal to keep as pets (I worked with them as educational animals). I fell in love with them at work, and have wanted a pair of my own ever since.
I've been thinking a lot about adding a pair of them to our family sometime in the future. It probably won't be for awhile still, but I've been doing a lot of research and am starting to plan out where I would keep their cage and stuff like that. I'd like to start buying supplies a little at a time, even though it very well may be a year or more before I actually get any gliders. I asked online on a sugar glider forum before about having both gliders and rabbits. One person told me that I shouldn't keep them in the same room, preferably not on the same floor of the house, as my rabbits. She said that it's because rabbits can carry Pasteurella and that it can be passed on, and be deadly to, sugar gliders.
But I did a case study on Pasteurella in college and learned that other carriers for it commonly include dogs and cats. And yet I see pictures of people who let their sugar gliders interact with their cats and dogs, or at least let them hang out in the same room.
I originally wanted to keep my glider cage in the same room that my rabbits are mainly housed in, or in our bedroom - which is the room right next to the bunny room. If that's a problem, I can keep the gliders in a different room, but we live in an apartment so I can't keep them on a different floor.
Does anyone have both sugar gliders and rabbits? Have you ever had any problems keeping both? How far apart do you keep them or how do you otherwise prevent disease transmission between the two species. If I keep them in a different room with no access to each other, do I still have to worry about carrying germs between the two species on my hands or clothing?
I really want this to work out. But I don't want to make any decisions, based on what I want, that will make any of my pets - new or old - suffer.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
I worked with sugar gliders for 4 years before I moved to NJ. I use to live in MA, where gliders are illegal to keep as pets (I worked with them as educational animals). I fell in love with them at work, and have wanted a pair of my own ever since.
I've been thinking a lot about adding a pair of them to our family sometime in the future. It probably won't be for awhile still, but I've been doing a lot of research and am starting to plan out where I would keep their cage and stuff like that. I'd like to start buying supplies a little at a time, even though it very well may be a year or more before I actually get any gliders. I asked online on a sugar glider forum before about having both gliders and rabbits. One person told me that I shouldn't keep them in the same room, preferably not on the same floor of the house, as my rabbits. She said that it's because rabbits can carry Pasteurella and that it can be passed on, and be deadly to, sugar gliders.
But I did a case study on Pasteurella in college and learned that other carriers for it commonly include dogs and cats. And yet I see pictures of people who let their sugar gliders interact with their cats and dogs, or at least let them hang out in the same room.
I originally wanted to keep my glider cage in the same room that my rabbits are mainly housed in, or in our bedroom - which is the room right next to the bunny room. If that's a problem, I can keep the gliders in a different room, but we live in an apartment so I can't keep them on a different floor.
Does anyone have both sugar gliders and rabbits? Have you ever had any problems keeping both? How far apart do you keep them or how do you otherwise prevent disease transmission between the two species. If I keep them in a different room with no access to each other, do I still have to worry about carrying germs between the two species on my hands or clothing?
I really want this to work out. But I don't want to make any decisions, based on what I want, that will make any of my pets - new or old - suffer.
Thanks in advance for any replies!