lilspaz68
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Kamali is one of my Maritimer sisters who came from New Brunswick on a 2 person rat train to Ontario. SQ drove them to Montreal (long long drive) by herself and handed them over to Jane at Small Victories Rodent Rescue. Jane was driving down to Bradford and her parent's place, so a whole pile of us met up there (jorats, Vanessa, Alice McMallis and myself) to go pick up our babies and a few other adoptee rats from Jane'
s rescue, and Clark's Angel Rat Rescue as well. Their mom and dad were bought to feed the snake but snakey wasn't hungry so the gf of the snake-owner kept them. Sadly the bf liked to torture them by letting the cat into their cage etc. As we all know males and females living together make babies and a SQ was called by the frantic gf. The 12 babies were taken out of there when the bf started saying he was going to feed the pinkies to his snake as a snack. At a week old Kamali and Kyrie and their siblings were saved and taken in by Godmother as their foster.
Sadly my sweet rats always seemed to have respiratory issues but they used to clear up with baytril/doxy. Eventually we had to bump it up a notch to baytril/zithro which has rarely failed me.
Unfortunately my wonderful, kind, knowlegeable vet Dr. Munn sold her clinic and was having her new one built. She has been MIA for over 5 months now. I have been forced to see a crappy vet who knows nothing about medicating rats, etc. He will give me baytril but no zithro.
Kamali started doing some hard rapid breathing and knowing her siblings have had issues with CHF I tried her with lasix and enalapril to see if there was any improvement. Nada
So my poor girl is getting every 2nd day sub-q injections of gentocin and dexamethasone (steroid) to make her breathing easier. We have an appt with my good vet (finally!!) this Saturday. Last night she took a turn for the worse. I am having to handfeed her and am going to buy Ensure tonight to syringe into her as well. I need to keep my sweetie going until my good vet can see her.
My neutered boy Dilbert has been nursemaiding her, when she wasn't feeling well, and ignoring her when she was feeling better. With a sinking heart I saw him lying under her as a patient pillow last night.
And a video of my lovely girl last night
s rescue, and Clark's Angel Rat Rescue as well. Their mom and dad were bought to feed the snake but snakey wasn't hungry so the gf of the snake-owner kept them. Sadly the bf liked to torture them by letting the cat into their cage etc. As we all know males and females living together make babies and a SQ was called by the frantic gf. The 12 babies were taken out of there when the bf started saying he was going to feed the pinkies to his snake as a snack. At a week old Kamali and Kyrie and their siblings were saved and taken in by Godmother as their foster.
Sadly my sweet rats always seemed to have respiratory issues but they used to clear up with baytril/doxy. Eventually we had to bump it up a notch to baytril/zithro which has rarely failed me.
Unfortunately my wonderful, kind, knowlegeable vet Dr. Munn sold her clinic and was having her new one built. She has been MIA for over 5 months now
. I have been forced to see a crappy vet who knows nothing about medicating rats, etc. He will give me baytril but no zithro.Kamali started doing some hard rapid breathing and knowing her siblings have had issues with CHF I tried her with lasix and enalapril to see if there was any improvement. Nada
So my poor girl is getting every 2nd day sub-q injections of gentocin and dexamethasone (steroid) to make her breathing easier. We have an appt with my good vet (finally!!) this Saturday. Last night she took a turn for the worse. I am having to handfeed her and am going to buy Ensure tonight to syringe into her as well. I need to keep my sweetie going until my good vet can see her.
My neutered boy Dilbert has been nursemaiding her, when she wasn't feeling well, and ignoring her when she was feeling better. With a sinking heart I saw him lying under her as a patient pillow last night.
And a video of my lovely girl last night
