Petaurus breviceps is a new pet that has become popular in China in recent years.
In fact, as early as ten years ago, Japan and Taiwan had a shoveler who raised honey bag shrews, but at that time, there were very few people in mainland China who knew about this animal, and the honey bag shrew really became an Internet celebrity about five or six years ago, when there were several videos on the Internet that became popular, the content was that the honey bag shrew jumped from a high place, propped open the wing membrane and glided into the owner's hand.
Coupled with the fact that the honey bag shrew has a pair of large round eyes in black and translucent, a small and exquisite plush body, many netizens suddenly have two eyes after seeing it: This small animal is so cute! Raise it!
A few years ago, I used to combine the research data paper of the honey bag shrew, the relevant theoretical achievements of the pet gods at home and abroad and my own breeding experience, wrote a "Honey Bag Shrew Novice Breeding Manual", which was shared and reprinted by many netizens, but even so, it is still impossible to ensure that all the people who raise the honey bag shrew have sufficient understanding of this animal and then raise it, and for several years, some people have been asking me various questions about the honey bag shrew in private letters.
So I decided to start from now on, every three to five minutes to introduce and share the knowledge of raising honey bag shrews for friends in need, ensuring that they are all dry goods.
According to my habit, before introducing a new pet, I will first give everyone "pulling grass", that is, to explain the shortcomings of the pet first, and first persuade everyone to give up, after all, compared to the cuteness and advantages of animals, their shortcomings are the more important factors that determine whether the shoveler can stick to it.
The cuteness of the honey bag shrew is obvious to all: small, plush, long tail, large eyes, gliding, lively and agile, is a visual healing pet.
For shovelers who already have breeding experience, the honey bag shrew is quite a worry, but for those who are new to it, or who do not know them, the honey bag shrew is definitely not such a good pet.
After all, feeding is one thing, raising well is another, many novices who raise honey bag shrews find that they can't accept some of the shortcomings of honey bag shrews after a period of time, so there is abandonment behavior.
Generally speaking, the following five characteristics of the honey bag shrew are the most easily unacceptable.
Many novices have found that after raising honey bag shrews for a while, the smell of such a cute animal can be so strong.
This is mainly reflected in the male honey bag shrew, male honey bag shrew has a developed odor gland, there is no taste before sexual maturity, but once it reaches the first estrus period, it will ignore the breeding period rules that most animals have, and the smell is strong throughout the year (from pheromone secretion, bathing is useless), especially the smell of urine, which is enough to make many people collapse, but it is used to it for a long time.
Moreover, male honey bag shrews also have odor glands on the top of their heads and chests, and after sexual maturity, they emit pheromones all year round, and these two positions will become bald. So many novices may find their honey bag shrew slowly balding and turning into a Mediterranean hairstyle.
Don't be nervous, it's normal.
First of all, let me tell you that although the honey bag shrew has a shrew in its name and looks like a mouse, it is not a rodent of the real beast, but a more primitive, posterior marsupial, native to Australia, and koalas, kangaroos are relatives, so it is absolutely not possible to raise honey bag shrews by raising hamsters, they have no teeth that keep growing, and they do not have cheek sacs.
The main diet of the wild honey bag is arthropods, nectar, petals, leaf buds, sap, and fruits.
But just like pet cats have cat food, pet dogs have dog food, pet honey bag shrew also has a special honey bag shrew staple food, mostly powdered brewed food, according to different raw materials can be divided into hpw, tpg, bwl and other different types.
In addition to the staple food, the shoveler provides the honey bag shrew with fresh vegetables, fruits and live insects to eat. Live worms are necessary for raising honey bag shrews, which can be barley worms, bread worms, crickets and Dobia, and cannot be dried with dried bread worms, which makes no sense.
And live insects can not be replaced by food such as boiled chicken breast, because the type of protein is different, and the meat also lacks chitin for honey marser shrew to ingest.
The honey bag shrew looks cute, right? But whether it's its big round eyes or its thin round ears, it's typical nocturnal animal features. They sleep during the day and are active at night.
Unlike cats, the body structure of the honey bag shrew tends to be completely diurnal and nocturnal, and the "jet lag" will only bring them irreversible damage.
That is to say, the honey bag shrew can not be modified by the method of "not letting it sleep during the day, so as to reverse the sleep habits", which will cause the body and mind of the honey bag shrew to be damaged, and over time there will be stress disorders, nutritional imbalances, self-harm and other conditions.
So a qualified shoveler must let the honey bag squirrel sleep during the day and play at night. Moreover, when the honey bag shrew is active at night, it will run cool in the cage, and it will also make a sound, which will affect the sleep of the shoveler, which must be understood in advance.
Although the brain-taking index of honey marsappers is not as good as that of cats and dogs, each of them also has their own personality and behavior habits.
"Honey bag shrew bites?" " Honey Bag Shrew Relatives?" "Does the honey bag recognize the owner?" "These are the kinds of questions that almost anyone who plans to raise honey bag shrews asks.
But there is no fixed answer to these questions, because individual differences are universal, and other people's honey bag shrews are very sticky and docile, which does not mean that all honey bags are like this.
In fact, the proportion of honey bag shrews with not very good personalities in the market is more, especially the honey bag shrews obtained through online shopping, the bumps along the way will cause them great psychological harm, and the progress of the shoveler to cultivate feelings with them will be more slow, and some honey bag shrews are even afraid of people and hate people for life.
Honey bag shrew is a social social animal with social behaviors and needs, so it is not suitable for solitary breeding, otherwise there may be serious mental illness and self-harm behavior, such as biting off its scrotum, plucking its own hair, excessive licking, and gnawing on toes.
However, raising honey bag shrews of the same sex has a great chance of interspecific suppression, so the most suitable breeding number is one male and one female or one male and more female.
But then there is a new problem - the honey bag shrew breeds very quickly. In order to ensure the reproduction rate, the honey bag shrew has evolved an embryonic diapause mechanism, which we will describe in detail later.
This problem can be solved, because "age-appropriate sterilization" is also suitable for honey bag shrews (mainly males, female honey bag shrews are too difficult to sterilize), otherwise they will continue to breed.
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