lilspaz68
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My brother has 2 older (2+) girls from the Owen Sound shelter and when I heard one of them had scabs on her shoulders/back, I told them she had mites and they picked up Revolution and treated her. Sadly it seemed to work but came back. So they treated again. I had seen my family but not been up to their place for a long time. The weekend before last I went up with the idea that the poor lass had pyoderma. I was right. 
She also had a mild URI from the stress of it. My brother and mom live in a rural area where the vet's won't touch rats even to euthanize them. So I came up, trimmed her nails, got them to buy her Pediatric advil liquid, and got the sweet little scabby PEW started on baytril. I also noticed she had thick gnarly ears which I had never seen before, so closed up that you couldn't get a Q-tip into the ear canal. :shock: The treatment seemed to be working, the scabs were darkening, drying and disappearing. Her URI was receding as well
Friday morning I spoke to my brother and was told she was dying. She had gotten stiff a couple of days earlier, and now was lying there, looking "wrong and crooked". I spoke to Chelle and she agreed she needed to come down that night. We met up with my mother and my brother in the parking lot in front of nasty ol' Doogans Pet in Orangeville.
Once I held the little girl I knew it wasn't just a simple case of PT, or URI, or anything. Her chest and rib cage was hard and expanded, her body rigid. She had what looked like darker areas of her skin and it felt a little like fluid under the skin. If anyone has found a dead rat in the morning, on the bottom of the cage where they are lying on their chest and rigid, this is exactly what she was like
We drove to Walmart and picked up more Pediatric advil and I gave her a big dose in the parking lot. It did nothing...the poor little thing was in agony, and it was gutwrenching to watch her. I kept her in my lap and we figured out a more comfortable way for her to rest. She would rest her chin on my hand, I would drop my fingers so they didn't touch her chest and she would rest with her eyes wide open. I got her home about midnight and gave her a whacking big dose of metacam. In the morning especially after seeing the more extensive bruising, Chelle and I ran her to Dr. Munn for a emergency euthanasia We also decided (along with my vet who had never seen this before) to have a necro done with samples of her skin sent to the lab. My own guess is that the poor little lass had an auto-immune issue and her body was attacking her skin. :sad3:
So stay tuned for results in about a week.
Pics
She was most comfortable on her back, but her left leg/shoulder/side was more swollen.
Darker spot, by morning you didn't need to part the fur, all her skin was bluish
Swollen side
Poor licky lass.
She also had a mild URI from the stress of it. My brother and mom live in a rural area where the vet's won't touch rats even to euthanize them. So I came up, trimmed her nails, got them to buy her Pediatric advil liquid, and got the sweet little scabby PEW started on baytril. I also noticed she had thick gnarly ears which I had never seen before, so closed up that you couldn't get a Q-tip into the ear canal. :shock: The treatment seemed to be working, the scabs were darkening, drying and disappearing. Her URI was receding as well Friday morning I spoke to my brother and was told she was dying. She had gotten stiff a couple of days earlier, and now was lying there, looking "wrong and crooked". I spoke to Chelle and she agreed she needed to come down that night. We met up with my mother and my brother in the parking lot in front of nasty ol' Doogans Pet in Orangeville.
Once I held the little girl I knew it wasn't just a simple case of PT, or URI, or anything.
Her chest and rib cage was hard and expanded, her body rigid. She had what looked like darker areas of her skin and it felt a little like fluid under the skin. If anyone has found a dead rat in the morning, on the bottom of the cage where they are lying on their chest and rigid, this is exactly what she was like We drove to Walmart and picked up more Pediatric advil and I gave her a big dose in the parking lot. It did nothing...the poor little thing was in agony, and it was gutwrenching to watch her. I kept her in my lap and we figured out a more comfortable way for her to rest. She would rest her chin on my hand, I would drop my fingers so they didn't touch her chest and she would rest with her eyes wide open. I got her home about midnight and gave her a whacking big dose of metacam. In the morning especially after seeing the more extensive bruising, Chelle and I ran her to Dr. Munn for a emergency euthanasia
We also decided (along with my vet who had never seen this before) to have a necro done with samples of her skin sent to the lab. My own guess is that the poor little lass had an auto-immune issue and her body was attacking her skin. :sad3: So stay tuned for results in about a week.
Pics
She was most comfortable on her back, but her left leg/shoulder/side was more swollen.
Darker spot, by morning you didn't need to part the fur, all her skin was bluish
Swollen side
Poor licky lass.
