About Sweet Sugar Gliders

Find out about Sweet Sugar Gliders. Who are the people behind Sweet-Sugar-Gliders.com website?

Misty - Suggie Slave

I go by IowaMisty in the forums. I live near Des Moines, Iowa, with my husband Ben, our Shih Tzu (Jameelah) and our two suggies (Vash and Rikku). I work at Principal as an IT Application Analyst. When I was younger, I thought it would be neat to have sugar gliders as pets and fell in love again with them in early 2008. I did LOTS of research and found the perfect pair of gliders to own me. Vash and Rikku are a pair of leucistic hets that we are currently allowing to breed, so you may occasionally see our babies posted here for adoption. Vash and Rikku had their 1st litter (2 beautiful boys) on October 25th, 2008. The joeys are so fun to have around!

In my glider research, I have noticed that I never can seem to find everything I am looking for all in one place. I wanted to make a website to compile all of the great information I have found and give people kind of a "one-stop shop" to learn about sugar gliders.  Also, I am noticing that sugar gliders have become kind of a fad, with the mill breeders pushing them as "perfect pocket pets" at flea markets, state fairs, home & garden shows, etc.  My goal is to educate people.  As a "normal" person with just one pair of pet suggies, I thought I could also give people a realistic view on what it is like to care for these exotic pets. So...I have enlisted the help of both my husband and my best friend Arren to get this website going.

Ben - Suggie Slave

I go by IowaBen in the forums.  As Misty said, we live near Des Moines, Iowa , with our Shih Tzu and our sugar gliders.  Since early 2008, we have spent much of our spare time to learning about sugar gliders and now we're dedicated to teaching others about them.  Misty's focus is doing the research and creating much of the content, Arren's focus is getting our site to the top of the search engines and taking care of a lot of the "business" aspects, and my focus is the design.  All of the design work that you see on our website (logo, banners, etc) were designed by me.  We wanted to make our website look both professional and fun.  I am having fun creating all of these 2D graphics and am actually a 3D artist by trade.  I am currently working on starting up my own company called Trini-D Animations, where I will make animations for pastors to use in sermons.  I do not yet have my Trini-D Animations website up and running, but if you would like to view some of my work, you can check it out at www.bendorman.com.

Arren - Suggie Slave Wannabe

If you found this website, I am achieving my goal to help the sugar glider community find out about sweet sugar gliders. Please contact us if there is something you are looking for and can not find it here. I say this with all sincerity, "We are here for you!"

Misty and I have been best friends since 1996. Together, we formed MA'Friends based out of Iowa. We have been searching for the right business doing something we love. Our Sweet Sugar Gliders website is the perfect venue where we can collectively use our knowledge, talents, and skills to make this a successful website.

I live in New Jersey and have been salsa dancing for over 8 years. Its through the love of salsa dancing that I created my first website - www.salsa-dancing-addict.com. My website has consistently grown since 2005 and has made a significant web presence in the salsa dancing community. It started as a hobby, but over time, it also became a business of internet advertising and product promotion. In November 2008, I formed Salsa Dancing Addict, LLC.

I am excited to use the same techniques I learned from creating my Salsa Dancing Addict website, to make Sweet Sugar Gliders the number 1 resource for sugar gliders. This website was started January 1, 2009 and has quickly risen in the search engine rankings.

Right now, I do not know much about sweet sugar gliders, but I know I will learn a LOT about them from Misty's expertise. One day, I hope to become an expert in sugar gliders like Misty. I must admit, these little guys are cute.

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