Bonding with sugar gliders might take some time and patience, but it the most rewarding and wonderful part of owning a sugar glider as a pet.
To make your sugar glider become your best pal and really familiar with you, what you need is spend some quality time with it. If you have a sugar glider that has been bred in captivity it might take you a lot less time to bond with it, mostly because they are already familiar with humans and are not afraid of them. The simple rule here is not to force anything.
Take your time and be patience. Don't worry if your bonding will take a little more time than you thought before, usually it takes somewhere from instant bond to up to few months. To speed the bonding process what you can do is take some piece of cloth that you've been wearing for quite a while and that has your scent on it, and put it inside your sugar gliders nesting box. This little trick will help your sugar glider get used to your scent a lot faster.
If, however, you have a sugar glider who isn't completely tamed, don't wear gloves (as some people might want to do) while handling them. This is mostly because of the fact that sugar gliders will get used to the smell of your gloves, instead of your own scent.
Now, I know that these little suggies can bite when they get mad and it actually does hurt, but what I would suggest is just sticking it through. Don't try to jerk them around, mostly because it will hurt you even more and returning them to their cage once they've bitten you is also not a good idea. That's because your sugar glider will start to think, that every time it bites you, you put it back and leave it alone.
So what to do?
Stick it through, be brave and continue handling them. It might take a huge amount of your patience and another dose of pain-killers, but after a while your sugar glider will start to understand that even if it bites you, you still continue to handle it.
Make sure to keep children away from your sugar glider. That's because most of the kids, even love animals, show that love by squeezing too hard, which causes suggie to bite back. You can also use Pocket Training trick. Carry your sugar glider in your shirt pocket throughout all day, giving it treats from time to time. Just make sure that you don't lean to something and injure your suggie.
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