This essay was written by Texas on WSGN.
There are many different types of bonding that can take place. Each help out with the over all bonding process.
This link is a wonderful link for 25 bonding tips to help new owners be able to start a successful yet slow bonding process. This also has some good tips for a reminder to the one's of us that already have sugar gliders and things that we need to be cautioned about.
http://www.gliderconnection.com/BondingTips.html
To me glider behavior and bonding play a special part in relation to each other.
This is an excellent website for understanding the behavior of your glider to help out with the bonding process. Once we understand what our gliders are trying to communicate to us, the better we are at being able to handle the situation and be able to slowly advance forward with bonding to our gliders.
http://www.crittervillerescue.com/bonding/
This site gives some great ideas as to lickey treats, bonding inside the cage, mealworms to help with bonding, and in pouch bonding as well.
http://www.sugargliderheaven.com/sgbonding.htm
Some of the lickey treats that I use personally are yogurt (which is their favorite) as well as organic baby foods. These both are a hit when it comes to my gliders. I also try to stay away from hard foods for treats for my gliders as it has a tendency to promote biting.
Along with bonding is another B word "Biting"
During the bonding process and when gliders are first brought home into their new environment, they do have a tendency to bite, and some bite more than others. Most sugar glider owners will explain that a bite doesn't count unless they draw blood. Unfortunately I have one that was wanting to go to work for the United Blood Services, and drew blood every chance he got. This was quite discouraging to me when I first started working with my little vampires ERRRR, UHH, gliders. It's very easy for an experienced glider owner to tell a new glider owner to just take the bite. Believe me, this is something that takes self control and a complete and total mind set in order to do. I know with my experiences it was everything I could do when I was bit (glider still attached to my hand with blood trickeling) to keep from shaking my hand furiously to knock the little snot off. But it is something that you have to learn to do. It's not impossible, just takes thought before it happens to know how to handle the situation. This website helps new owners to expect biting and how to take a glider out of a pouch easily with the least amount of pain possible. I would have given anything to know about this then. http://www.mindspring.com/~rezz69/sugar ... nding.html
I found this to be very informative as well as short and to the point, not to mention very important things to remember.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pets/sugar-gli ... on-13.html
Also a must have for all glider owners is the glider proofing CHECK LIST!!! Remember to NEVER take your little one out at play time without first glider proofing the room your little one is going to be playing in. This is for the safety of your glider and should always be checked before letting your little one out for play time EACH evening.
http://www.glidersociety.com/downloads/glider_proof.pdf
The next link is for a 4 part series from The Suncoast Gang. Part 1 of bonding has some very beneficial information in it as to how frustrating it can be starting out trying to bond with a new glider. It's comforting to know we aren't the only one's that have ever experienced such problems and that it will pass in time. Part 2 discusses as to why we sometimes have "behavior problems" with our gliders, that we might not realize at the time. Part 3 is one of my favorites!!! Although time and patience are a huge factor in bonding, this article best describes the amount of time the bonding process may take. Part 4 is the bonding tool I have used the most aside from pouch bonding and is on one of my favorite subjects as well. TENT TIME!! LET THE FUN BEGIN!!! All four articles can be accessed from this website posted below.
http://www.sugar-gliders.com/glidervet-14.htm
There are so many factors that contribute to bonding, not just one or two things. Also I don't know how many times I've heard someone say "MY GLIDER WON'T BOND" Well unfortunately this isn't something that's going to happen over night. Put yourself in the gliders place. You have a cage, nothing familiar around you, and a thing about 100 times your size staring back at you. When we try to look at things from a glider perspective, it seems so much easier to have patience with them and want to take their fears away. We know we won't hurt them, but that is only something they can learn through trust.
Last but not least, just to end on a positive note and reinforcing that time patience, love, and consistancy does pay off!
What to expect after bonding.
http://isc.faqs.org/faqs/pets/sugar-gli ... on-14.html
Happy Bonding