Sugar Glider Owner's SurveyCurrently the
Gliders @ UNSW Research Team
is collating and analysing the results of our recent survey of the experiences of Sugar Glider owners. This survey covered many
aspects of Sugar Glider ownership, including:
- caring for Sugar Gliders;
- health and veterinary problems that owners have encountered;
- how people house their Sugar Gliders; and
- how suitable they found Sugar Gliders as pets.
To look at what questions were in the questionnaire,
click here.
Perceptions of Sugar Gliders as Pets
One of the questions asked in our recent questionnaire related to the perceptions of
Sugar Gliders as pets. Sugar Glider owners were asked to rate each of eleven characteristics about their pets on a scale
from
"Very Favourable" to
"Very Unfavourable."
We found that carers found the asethetic appeal, companionship and playfulness of Sugar Gliders to be the most
favourable characteristics of owning Sugar Gliders. The graph below sums up our results on this question, show the
mean response for each question, and error bars to represent the variationin answers to each.
Stand tuned as our full results should be published soon.
