How To File Sugar Glider's Nails

How to Cut a Saccharide Glider'southward Nails

Learn how to cut a sugar glider's nails from veterinarian Anthony Pilny in this Howcast video about these funny animals.

Transcript

It'south not considered to be routine practice to e'er need to trim your sugar glider's nails. Sugar glider toes, feet and their nails are important adaptive features that enable them to climb around, to get through their environment, and also to let them to function in their surround on a normal basis. So it'southward not normal for them to demand routine or regular smash trims. And more often than not, information technology's non something that we feel nearly people should endeavor on their own.

There are certain unique circumstances where a sugar glider may demand the nails groomed on periodic times. This may exist an animal for some reason where the nails overgrow. Where they're in an surroundings where they tend to be sedentary. They don't use their anxiety and they don't climb as much. So the nails go extremely abrupt, somewhat overgrown, and they may require some minor training just to take the points of the nails back. But in full general, nail clipping and blast trimming, nail filing, are all generally not normal aspects of sugar glider maintenance and saccharide glider care.

Should you accept concerns or problems, or feel your saccharide glider'due south nails are too long, have overgrown or are causing a problem, take them to your veterinary and have them evaluated and examined. And should they need any type of nail grooming or smash trimming, this should exist washed by your veterinary or veterinary staff.