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It's not considered to be routine practice to ever need to trim your sugar glider's nails.
Sugar glider toes, feet and their nails are important adaptive features that enable them
to climb around, to get through their environment, and also to allow them to function in their
environment on a normal basis. So it's not normal for them to need routine or regular
nail trims. And generally, it's not something that we feel most people should attempt on
their own.
There are certain unique circumstances where a sugar glider may need the nails groomed
on periodic times. This may be an animal for some reason where the nails overgrow. Where
they're in an environment where they tend to be sedentary. They don't use their feet
and they don't climb as much. So the nails become extremely sharp, somewhat overgrown,
and they may require some minor grooming just to take the points of the nails back. But
in general, nail clipping and nail trimming, nail filing, are all generally not normal
aspects of sugar glider maintenance and sugar glider care.
Should you have concerns or problems, or feel your sugar glider's nails are too long, have
overgrown or are causing a problem, take them to your veterinarian and have them evaluated
and examined. And should they need any type of nail grooming or nail trimming, this should
be done by your veterinarian or veterinary staff.