Due to the quarantine of schools my teacher need to turn to someone who loved that class pets. I was one of them I brought home two rats Athena and Banena. After a week of silence I noticed Banena had been breathing harder and sneezing and other things were different she was a little less active but she was still eating and drinking. I did lots of research and stayed up late reading over pages and pages of websites to see if I can exactly pinpoint what was wrong with her. Eventually I was convinced she had an upper respiratory infection so I called a few vets I had known and talked my cats and dogs to and one did not care for rats but the second one did so I scheduled a appointment and brought Banena in the vets were leaning to upper respiratory infection too so we put her on an antibiotic (not sure what it was called). I fed it to her every morning and night for a week and she was doing much better. But a week and a half later she was sneezing and breathing heavily again but not as bad the vets recommend put her in the bathroom with a humidifier as I remembered more of what they recommend. That has been working but it is getting worse I feel. Today was different I have been noticing she is getting skinny and she was still eating but today she has not ate at all. Today I brought her outside she like to be in the warm sun and after 15 minutes I brought her back inside and did my usual grab a treat and give it to her but she did not take it. I held it out in front of her but she did not take it. After a while I tried again but still no and I have seen her laying around her head over the edge of one of her ledges.
Things I have taken into consideration
-she is not eating
-drinking very little
-heavy breathing
-sneezing
-red spots from sneezing in her nest
-cold feet and tail( I wonder if it’s just the temperature in my room it is colder but even Athena has cold feet but very healthy)
-skinny
-it was always loud in class so I did not know exactly when symptoms started
-It has been a little over a month since I brought her to the vet
-has white inside her eye idk if she is going blind in one eye
- idk her age but I am pretty sure she is full sized and maybe over a year old
-using the humidifier every day
-going to run the space heater every night before I go to bed to see if my room will warm up (my mom recommended that)
- I live no where near a rodent or exotic pet vet (Closest one is in Colorado Springs, Colorado I think that is what the vet I took her to told me I forgot the name of it planning to call them tomorrow BTW I live in Pueblo)
Is there anything I can do or need to do I feel I can do more but I don’t know if I can
-also she is very Skittish when away or out of the cage she pees and poops every where so when I take her out I use a old t-shirt so I don’t get peed on or pooped on idk i you need to know that but I am including everything I know about her
Sorry for the long message and bad grammar I just know more people have had experience with stuff like this than I have.
Things I have taken into consideration
-she is not eating
-drinking very little
-heavy breathing
-sneezing
-red spots from sneezing in her nest
-cold feet and tail( I wonder if it’s just the temperature in my room it is colder but even Athena has cold feet but very healthy)
-skinny
-it was always loud in class so I did not know exactly when symptoms started
-It has been a little over a month since I brought her to the vet
-has white inside her eye idk if she is going blind in one eye
- idk her age but I am pretty sure she is full sized and maybe over a year old
-using the humidifier every day
-going to run the space heater every night before I go to bed to see if my room will warm up (my mom recommended that)
- I live no where near a rodent or exotic pet vet (Closest one is in Colorado Springs, Colorado I think that is what the vet I took her to told me I forgot the name of it planning to call them tomorrow BTW I live in Pueblo)
Is there anything I can do or need to do I feel I can do more but I don’t know if I can
-also she is very Skittish when away or out of the cage she pees and poops every where so when I take her out I use a old t-shirt so I don’t get peed on or pooped on idk i you need to know that but I am including everything I know about her
Sorry for the long message and bad grammar I just know more people have had experience with stuff like this than I have.