vitaldose
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I know it's possible for rats to have allergies, but I want to make sure that it is such a thing before I just go and make a bad decision.
Last year when I first acquired Delilah, she of course had new home sniffles. I took her and Sniffles to the vet and he said everything was okay, he couldn't hear anything in the lungs, and that it was obviously environmental as neither of them were sneezing at the vets.
A few weeks later Delilah started to sneeze more often, all ready getting over her new home sniffles, but this time it was more frequent and she was now sneezing in her sleep and it sounded like she had a terribly stuffy nose, so she was doing what I heard as a rattie equivalent of snoring. At first it was just at night, it then moved on to all the time and she sounded as if she was having trouble breathing out of her nose. She was doing it, but making lots of noise.
I thought it might have been the type of bedding I used, being as it was carefresh, so I changed it to fleece. She was mostly fine after that, but I couldn't be sure if it was the bedding or something else. As summer came in, all the symptoms went away.
I would say less than a month ago I took them for their one year, Delilah was sneezing again, but not often. Again, nothing was wrong, the only thing he said was that they're both slightly overweight and I've since changed their diet to reflect that.
Again, about amount of time between, Delilah is doing exactly the same thing.
I know my mother, me and my boyfriend are all all ready starting to sneeze from our allergies, and that pollen can cause rats issues. I just want to make sure that its allergies and not something else I should be worried about.
And just for information, I don't wear perfume often, I don't use febreeze in my room, I don't spray anything and have a humidifier going sometimes in the night (which is cleaned every two days).
Help :sad3:
Last year when I first acquired Delilah, she of course had new home sniffles. I took her and Sniffles to the vet and he said everything was okay, he couldn't hear anything in the lungs, and that it was obviously environmental as neither of them were sneezing at the vets.
A few weeks later Delilah started to sneeze more often, all ready getting over her new home sniffles, but this time it was more frequent and she was now sneezing in her sleep and it sounded like she had a terribly stuffy nose, so she was doing what I heard as a rattie equivalent of snoring. At first it was just at night, it then moved on to all the time and she sounded as if she was having trouble breathing out of her nose. She was doing it, but making lots of noise.
I thought it might have been the type of bedding I used, being as it was carefresh, so I changed it to fleece. She was mostly fine after that, but I couldn't be sure if it was the bedding or something else. As summer came in, all the symptoms went away.
I would say less than a month ago I took them for their one year, Delilah was sneezing again, but not often. Again, nothing was wrong, the only thing he said was that they're both slightly overweight and I've since changed their diet to reflect that.
Again, about amount of time between, Delilah is doing exactly the same thing.
I know my mother, me and my boyfriend are all all ready starting to sneeze from our allergies, and that pollen can cause rats issues. I just want to make sure that its allergies and not something else I should be worried about.
And just for information, I don't wear perfume often, I don't use febreeze in my room, I don't spray anything and have a humidifier going sometimes in the night (which is cleaned every two days).
Help :sad3:
