Dear Jeff,
Last year 2008 at America's Fair, my daughter Jessica and her boyfriend Andy purchased 2 Sugar
Gliders from Pocket Pets, I felt it necessary to contact you and let you know what a great
experience we have had with the Pocket Pets Company.
Right from the 1st day, Pocket Pets educated Jessica, Andy and myself in how to care for there
new babies. While at the fair, before we took the 1st baby home, one of the educators spend at
least 2 hours with us answering a ton of questions, then upon purchasing the supplies etc, they
spend at least another 90 minutes giving instructions and answering more questions. Upon arriving
home with our new baby within 24 hours we started receiving educational emails and had a website
to go to for online support. The educational material kept arriving for at least 6 weeks, and to
this day we have and will always have online support from Pocket Pets.
It was brought to my attention around the 2nd week in December 2008, that an individual that works
under my sisters at Modern Windows another vender of America's Fair, thought he could do better and
save money by purchasing a baby Sugar Glider from a pet shop somewhere in Buffalo. He did and he did
save a little money but the tragedy is that he was not fully educated or given the proper supplies
to properly take care of his glider. This lead to the man not only not feeding the baby (Oliver)
properly or having the proper cage, and toys to enlighten the habitat of the baby glider, he was not
told to purchase a heating rock to keep his baby warm, considering we very cold winter months.
Sadly because this man was not educated properly in how to bond with his baby or properly care for it,
Oliver never bonded with him and resorted to biting him and became a very nasty Sugar Glider, which also
lead to this man never touching the baby and making a very unhealthy and unhappy Sugar Glider. I advised
this man that I would take him into my home, free of charge of course to at least try to rehabilitate
Oliver and hopefully give him a better home life. On December 27th 2008 we brought Oliver home.
Upon doing so, without going into more of a long story, I realized just how terrified of people Oliver
was and sought help from Adam at Pocket Pets, I emailed Adam to please contact me by cell phone, not
knowing how long it may take or if he would be willing to give advise and help on a glider that
was not purchased through Pocket Pets. Within 24 hours of my email, Adam called me, and was more than
willing to help me with all of my questions, he spent no less than an hour advising me how to work
with Oliver to help to rehabilitate him. To date I have had email contact with Adam on our progress.
Oliver is now taking food from my hand and allowing me to touch him.
Pocket Pets are and exceptional company, without them, I do not know what I would have done. They not
only educate they care about the homes that there gliders are going to. I would highly recommend doing
business with them in the future and hope to see them back at America's Fair this year and years to come.
More companies should learn from Pocket Pets on business ethics. You would think that a pet store would
know how to conduct business and be sure a person purchasing a live creature understands how to take care
of it, obviously not.....
Thank you for your time.
Kathleen Dick