Sugar Glider Central

So my girlfriend and I got 2 gliders a male and female that are about 8 and 9 months. We have had them about 3-4 weeks. They eat from our hands let us pet and touch them as much as want and the male even jumps ony hand or arm when I put it in the cage, but if we put our fingers in front of the female she will reach out and even grab our fingers and bite them. When I try to pick either of them up they bite my fingers. They don't make any noises before just bite. But than rite after we can still pet them. Are we doing something wrong?

I am curious if she also does this while you are holding her. Get her on your hand and see what she does. If not, I wonder if it is a pouch-protective kind of response. When you invade her home space, she protects it.

I suspect there are a lot of different ways to work on this. I have had biters in the past that cannot be "cured".

Perhaps you will have to work on repetitions of instigating the behavior and giving her an alternative course of action, instead of biting your finger she goes for the meal worm or honey or other treat. Sooner or later when she sees your fingers she will associate it with a treat.

Its in and out of the pouch. Last night I put my and in the cage she ran over to it jumped in my had and bit not hard e rough to bleed or leave a mark just enough to let me know she's there. She loves being petted though I can pet her all day long but if I let her see my fingers she bites. Last night the male also was jumping in and out of my hand but as soon as I tried to grab and hold him he chomped down. Again didn't draw blood or leave a mark.

It sounds to me like you are doing the right things. One thing I have picked up over the years is that it takes a long long long time and endless patience to work with sugar gliders. So keep at it. Maybe someone else will chime in and offer some suggestions.

I have a blind boy who bites me. I have been working daily for a long time getting him out and giving mealworms by hand and he is very used to that. When hes eating a worm I can hold him and scratch his belly and anything like that, but as soon as he stops eating, he will simply find a finger tip and bite it. He is an abandon and had a really nasty life in a shelter with lots nad lots of other loud animals like large birds, monkeys and so forth. I think this guy was simply terrorized and it is not going to go away.

Sometimes you have to just accept what you have in hand. After all, life isnt about perfection, it's about what you do with the crap you find along the way... heh.