Suggies At Home

Well, today is the 27th of May…. ok, I guess I was slacking off with this blog. It’s time for me to add some stuff for now.

ON the 31st May and 1st of June 2008, there will be a pet event. I was invited to give a talk on sugar glider care. Wow, I feel nervous just thinking about it but I hope I won’t get anything wrong. Will be getting a crowd from lowyat.net forum and also help from 2 other senior sugar glider keepers. We are hoping to educate the public on sugar gliders as there have been many pet shops around Malaysia that are selling terribly underage joeys to new owners. Many newbies who have bought these cute but young joeys end up experiencing sick and dying joeys. Pitiful as some of them only lived for a day to 3 weeks. Lucky ones manage to keep them alive for less than a year. The main problem that we are seeing here is the lack of information and research, as well as proper nutrition. I will touch on nutrition later on.

Like my title, I was wondering if people would accept my name card… I remember going to the Pet World 2008 event at MidValley MegaMall with my gliders. A few of us glider keepers brought our lil suggies to have a small get-together. By just standing in a small little group, we attracted many visitors. They would stop, ask us all sort of questions about gliders as well as even asking us if they are for sale. We had to remind them that “They are our pets!”. We had a splendid time educating some people and making new friends but I remembered that I kept getting this question, “Do you have a name card?”, then I would stare at them back with a little sigh and said no. Then I could see the disappointment in their faces.

So, this time, I thought, why not have a name card? I’m still in the midst of designing it but I think it turned out pretty ok. I still think I should minimize the words and give more space to the design but it was hard. Hope to see some comments here.