Our first little girl was from a petco - my father purchased her for my brother. She started sneezing as soon as we got her, at first I thought it was just stress from the new home. But it seemed persistant and I worried. Fortunately they had a very polite policy on newly purchased animals. I was able to take her back to the store and have her treated by a vet there - they held her for about two weeks while she was on antibiotics. No resp infection.
Since I've had her she's always seemed to sneeze. Before we adopted our other two ladies I took her to the vet just to be safe. She didn't have a resp infection but she was put on 21 days of Baytril, .1mg twice a day if I remember correctly, her only symptom being sneezing. I went way out of my way to go to a well recommended vet that treats a lot of rodents in the area. Anyway, she's been done with the Baytril a couple weeks now, but still seems kind of sneezy, not constant but at least a couple times every day. She's never porphy, and I try to listen to her breathe in my ear every day, and listen to her chest; nothing sounds different. My other two girls seem unaffected.
Its not that I don't want to take her to the vet, but its a long drive and I think a bit stressful for her. I also don't want her just on antibiotics she doesn't need to be on. If she genuinely has allergies, but becomes sick at a later date I know that can affect how successful an appropriate course of antibiotics might prove to be. I just worry and I want to do the best thing.
Since I've had her she's always seemed to sneeze. Before we adopted our other two ladies I took her to the vet just to be safe. She didn't have a resp infection but she was put on 21 days of Baytril, .1mg twice a day if I remember correctly, her only symptom being sneezing. I went way out of my way to go to a well recommended vet that treats a lot of rodents in the area. Anyway, she's been done with the Baytril a couple weeks now, but still seems kind of sneezy, not constant but at least a couple times every day. She's never porphy, and I try to listen to her breathe in my ear every day, and listen to her chest; nothing sounds different. My other two girls seem unaffected.
Its not that I don't want to take her to the vet, but its a long drive and I think a bit stressful for her. I also don't want her just on antibiotics she doesn't need to be on. If she genuinely has allergies, but becomes sick at a later date I know that can affect how successful an appropriate course of antibiotics might prove to be. I just worry and I want to do the best thing.