Hi everyone
I cannot remember my old log in and I'm back with some questions.
I know I should never have 1 rat alone, but I just put down miss Mocha today. 5 ratties down to 1 in the last year. It's heartbreaking to keep losing them to tumors or unresolvable URI's.
Anyhow, the one I have left was given to me by our vet. She was a rescue from a hawk proving ground ? and has always been a very skittish girl. I got her at 2 months old, she was fixed at 7 weeks. I've had her since August 2009. She has been with the same rats since day one.
In the last few weeks I've noticed she has little sores and haven't thought much of it. I have heard her and Mocha having some pretty nasty spats-normal for Mocha-she was the dominant rat in the cage. They have injured each other (all 5 I had) every so often.
Well, Mocha was put down this morning and I've been spending a lot of time with miss Pockets. She has little sores on her left side-shoulder area mostly and a bit here are there near her ear and one near her nose. Again, I'm thinking injury.
Should I go forward and treat her with revolution? She isn't a real big rat, probably in the high 300/low 400 range. I'd also like to add, we have been fighting a respiratory infection for weeks. Mocha has been really sick and declining, so I was treating both. They were taking Doxy, Enro, Metacam, Durlactin, Noni juice, COQ10, some vitamin mix...and that may be it. The rescue I got 3 girls from provides me with medications.
help............
Lastly, I have 2 cats, should I be worried about them getting mites, should that be what I'm dealing with? The rats and cats have no physical contact, but the rat room is sometimes visited by the cats who lay on the floor some distance away or the bed, but they do walk by the cage.
I cannot remember my old log in and I'm back with some questions.
I know I should never have 1 rat alone, but I just put down miss Mocha today. 5 ratties down to 1 in the last year. It's heartbreaking to keep losing them to tumors or unresolvable URI's.
Anyhow, the one I have left was given to me by our vet. She was a rescue from a hawk proving ground ? and has always been a very skittish girl. I got her at 2 months old, she was fixed at 7 weeks. I've had her since August 2009. She has been with the same rats since day one.
In the last few weeks I've noticed she has little sores and haven't thought much of it. I have heard her and Mocha having some pretty nasty spats-normal for Mocha-she was the dominant rat in the cage. They have injured each other (all 5 I had) every so often.
Well, Mocha was put down this morning and I've been spending a lot of time with miss Pockets. She has little sores on her left side-shoulder area mostly and a bit here are there near her ear and one near her nose. Again, I'm thinking injury.
Should I go forward and treat her with revolution? She isn't a real big rat, probably in the high 300/low 400 range. I'd also like to add, we have been fighting a respiratory infection for weeks. Mocha has been really sick and declining, so I was treating both. They were taking Doxy, Enro, Metacam, Durlactin, Noni juice, COQ10, some vitamin mix...and that may be it. The rescue I got 3 girls from provides me with medications.
help............
Lastly, I have 2 cats, should I be worried about them getting mites, should that be what I'm dealing with? The rats and cats have no physical contact, but the rat room is sometimes visited by the cats who lay on the floor some distance away or the bed, but they do walk by the cage.
