First, let's take a look at this kind of pet
It is called honey bag shrew (wu) is not called honey kangaroo, nor is it called honey mouse, let alone honey bag shrew!
Generally many people say that flying squirrels are right, but there are two kinds of flying squirrels as pets, one is the honey kangaroo, and the other is the big-eyed flying squirrel.
Big-eyed flying squirrel
Honey bag shrew
Both will glide, both are weasels. But the essence and the method of breeding are very different!
The honey marsach is a marsupial (marsupial warm-blooded animals like kangaroos and wallabies) The honey marsupial has a body like a ferret and has a long but unable to catch a tail. The honey bag shrew is about 27 to 61 cm long from the nose to the tail, and its teeth are only once in a lifetime, and it cannot be extracted at will. [Ziwei don't go]
The honey bag shrew has round and large eyes and thin ears, which are the characteristics of nocturnal animals, which are completely nocturnal animals and irreversible.
Honey bag shrew originated in Australia, like heat does not like cold, suitable living temperature is about 25 to 30 degrees, the lowest can not be less than 10 degrees, less than 15 degrees, honey bag shrew body function began to decline, less than 10 degrees into a dormant state, curled up a lump of limbs hard sleepiness, and then low will die. So be sure to keep the temperature in winter.
merit
1. Cute, with a pair of big and round eyes, making you cute when looking at you
2. The volume is not large, and there is also a nickname called pocket beast.
3. Novelty, this kind of pet is also quite rarely raised, take it out can arouse the curiosity of others, frequent side-eyes.
4. Sticky. When you deliberately drop it and run away, it will rush to you from a distance! Don't feel too good about being stuck by a pet!
shortcoming
1. When the honey becomes an adult, the glandular body emits a taste, and many people abandon it because the taste is too heavy to accept! PS: Bathing is also useless.
2. Glass heart. The owner needs to accompany them often, if you keep one alone but do not often accompany them, it will often cause the honey bag shrew to have depression, the light hunger strike, the heavy self-harm.
3. Food is more complicated than other pets, and it needs special to learn, what calcium and phosphorus ratio, and what kind of care is needed for xiaomi in the full moon.
4. The cost is high, Xiaomi also has requirements for the living environment, and it is necessary to buy a large iron cage to let it have activity space. The monthly meal costs are also very expensive.
5. Honey bag shrew will not pull urine and defecation at a fixed point, and will often pull urine and defecation on the body. But it is also possible to train, as long as there is enough patience.
6. Male honey bag shrews will appear bald in adulthood, baldness, some people think that it is not cute and then abandoned, but this is no way to change, unless neutered.
7. The honey bag shrew is a nocturnal animal and cannot be forcibly reversed, so it will be very noisy at night. She can climb cages, turn over, chase and fight, and occasionally learn to bark (one of the types of barks of the honey bag shrew, similar to the puppy bark, is not really learning dog bark).
8. Honey bag shrew bites or does not bite depends on its individual personality and feelings with the owner, but scratching people is certain.