Can sugar gliders get along with cats?

Answer 1

It would be taking a huge risk to put them together to find out. Sugar gliders are small marsupials and cats and dogs would probably consider them prey and first kill them then perhaps eat them.

Even if the dog or cat did not attack the sugar glider immediately, sugar gliders are fragile animals physically and emotionally. Stress can kill sugar gliders and putting one with natural enemies could well be fatal to it. Avoid putting any of them in unnatural, threatening, or frightening conditions.

Cats have evolved over the millennia to be independent hunters and most will kill anything small and defenseless if given opportunity. Some do it for fun, and it matters little what training or upbringing they have had nor how well fed and loved they are when the predator instinct takes over.

It is also in a dog's nature to prey upon smaller animals. Some dogs, however, (more so than cats) can be trained and trusted to restrain their prey drive, but others, and especially some from specific breed groups like terriers, can not have the predator instinct trained away.

Answer 2

I would not recommend sugar gliders along with ferrets. Even if they were compatible, ferrets play very rough with biting behavior. Ferrets have a very strong bite and sharp teeth which usually does not hurt other ferrets when playing, because they have tough skin. But a sugar glider is smaller with a much more delicate skin.

from another contributor:

Only if you're prepared for the sugar glider to become food for the ferret, which are carnivorous creatures and will happily eat small mammals, among other things.

Answer 3

In their natural state, sugar gliders and dogs are prey and predator.

Dogs are instinctive hunters, and sugar gliders are small prey that, in the real world, should have never even come into contact with dogs. They are native to Australia, where dogs are introduced, and where dogs have helped cause extinction of many species. You might try and bring up your pets together, but bear in mind that sugar gliders were never made to be domesticated, and whenever nature is interfered with in this way, tragedy almost inevitably follows when instinct takes over.

Answer 4

Although some might claim that their sugar gliders and cats "play", it is incredibly dangerous and stressful to the sugar gliders.

My personal recommendation is to not introduce your sugar gliders to your cat at all.

Answer 5

In the same cage? No.

In the same house? Yes. But I would recommend placing them in separate rooms.

Answer 6

no.sugar gliders hardly ever get along with other animals.most likely,the hamster would be killed.

Answer 7

No. Sugar gliders communicate only with their own species and other members of the glider family.

Answer 8

Yes.