Slapdash
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Hi Everyone, I'm new here and very glad to have a place to discuss rats. Well, as the story goes my fiancee and I got Ralphie a male rat who is about 3 months old now when he was only about three weeks, the pet store sold him to us way too young I later found out. Immediatley he had a whole bunch of problems, an upper respitory infection, lice, and later a bladder infection caused from peraphomesis (spelling?) At about two months of age wefound a great exotics vet who loves rats and he suggested if we were going to get him a friend to get a female and having him neutered because neutering is a lot easier than spaying. So we did, Ruby joined our family very shortly after, she was only about 4 weeks and she got very ill unexpectedly only a few weeks after we had her. We ruxhed her to the local emergency vet where they told us she had very bad pneumonia and they would do everything they could but she was very young. They started her on antibiotics right away and put her in oxygen, she didn't make it through the night. 
We were crushed! She was the perfect match for Ralphie.
So I just wanted to give you the back story. Anyways, we got another baby female yesterday as hard as it was to do we wanted to get one while Ralphie was still fairly young. She is sneezing A LOT and has what appears to be a runny nose. She is making funny noises sometimes ecspecially right after we pick her up sort of like exessive sneezes or tiny squeeks one right after another coming from her nose and I'm worried she might be having trouble breathing. She is active, eating and drinking. She is very tiny! I called our regular vet to see if we could bring her in today and he is going to be out all week with the flu! There is no way to get in touch with him and I don't know what to do. If we need to take her to another vet we will but money is tight right now and I was hoping that we could treat her with the antibiotics Ralphie is finishing up on for his bladder infection. The vet gave us an entire bottle and I think its baytril. It's labeled SMZTMP ped susp. I'm supposed to give Ralphie 2/10 cc twice a day for 21 days. So if I were to give her this medicine how uch would i give her and for how long? She is only 3.8 oz and Ralphie is just about 11.2oz? So would I gve her like .05cc? And is baytril which I thin this is safe for a rat so young, we think she is probably only about 4 weeks? Thanks for your help can't wait to here from you!
We were crushed! She was the perfect match for Ralphie. So I just wanted to give you the back story. Anyways, we got another baby female yesterday as hard as it was to do we wanted to get one while Ralphie was still fairly young. She is sneezing A LOT and has what appears to be a runny nose. She is making funny noises sometimes ecspecially right after we pick her up sort of like exessive sneezes or tiny squeeks one right after another coming from her nose and I'm worried she might be having trouble breathing. She is active, eating and drinking. She is very tiny! I called our regular vet to see if we could bring her in today and he is going to be out all week with the flu! There is no way to get in touch with him and I don't know what to do. If we need to take her to another vet we will but money is tight right now and I was hoping that we could treat her with the antibiotics Ralphie is finishing up on for his bladder infection. The vet gave us an entire bottle and I think its baytril. It's labeled SMZTMP ped susp. I'm supposed to give Ralphie 2/10 cc twice a day for 21 days. So if I were to give her this medicine how uch would i give her and for how long? She is only 3.8 oz and Ralphie is just about 11.2oz? So would I gve her like .05cc? And is baytril which I thin this is safe for a rat so young, we think she is probably only about 4 weeks? Thanks for your help can't wait to here from you!
