Jaana
Member
Hello,
Just trying to find some advice really.
My Snowy was recently prescribed with Metacam, due to the fact that recently she has been showing some abnormal behaviour.
She appears to not climb around in her cage, or grip the bars. When she does sort of climb, she almost slides down, instead of climbs down and she also looks like she could fall, to which she has fallen a couple of times of her platform. She is showing signs of not being balanced and she sometimes doesn't appear to be able to hold her food properly. She does seem to be eating and drinking fine and she is walking (just a bit slower), so I took her to the vets and explained all this, to which they think it isn't a neurological problem, due to her being able to find her feet, they just think she may be weak and what not. So they gave me Metacam to give to her and I have just been googling about it and the dosage they gave me was 0.28ml per day and she does weigh 420g and she is about 1.5 years old. I have been reading older posts about Metacam and the dosages for rats, but can't find anything more frequent, so just wanted to see if this was about right.
Many thanks
Just trying to find some advice really.
My Snowy was recently prescribed with Metacam, due to the fact that recently she has been showing some abnormal behaviour.
She appears to not climb around in her cage, or grip the bars. When she does sort of climb, she almost slides down, instead of climbs down and she also looks like she could fall, to which she has fallen a couple of times of her platform. She is showing signs of not being balanced and she sometimes doesn't appear to be able to hold her food properly. She does seem to be eating and drinking fine and she is walking (just a bit slower), so I took her to the vets and explained all this, to which they think it isn't a neurological problem, due to her being able to find her feet, they just think she may be weak and what not. So they gave me Metacam to give to her and I have just been googling about it and the dosage they gave me was 0.28ml per day and she does weigh 420g and she is about 1.5 years old. I have been reading older posts about Metacam and the dosages for rats, but can't find anything more frequent, so just wanted to see if this was about right.
Many thanks