ReepacheepTheRat
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So my troubles started about a month after one of my ratties Illyria being spayed. She is a young rat dalmation rat (just above one year now) and living in Ohio I was limited to one overpriced local vet specializing in "exotic animals" for the spay or another local vet who had never done a rat spay before. I chose the slightly overpriced vet and she was spayed.
About a month after the spay she started having weird breathing sounds and other typical respiratory infection issues such as mycoplasma around her nose. We were able to get in with the vet and I was charged 130 dollars for a five minute appointment and a prescription for doxycline and ciprofloxacin. Over the week Illyria's respiratory infection stayed relatively the same so I called back and was charged 40$ for a ciprofloxacin refill. Another week has passed and she is still sick but a recent development was finding centimeter sized white worms wiggling in her litterbox last night and upon litterbox cleaning again this morning.
At this point I've paid this vet an arm and a leg for treatment that hasn't worked and suspect she may have been infected with worms during her spay as I've never had any worm related issues until now. I'm not sure what to do as I don't have many great local options for vets and taking in all 5 of my rat colony for deworming would probably cost me an arm and a leg with this vet. Could the worms be causing the respiratory infection? I'm a little at my wit's end here and worried Illyria might not make it.
About a month after the spay she started having weird breathing sounds and other typical respiratory infection issues such as mycoplasma around her nose. We were able to get in with the vet and I was charged 130 dollars for a five minute appointment and a prescription for doxycline and ciprofloxacin. Over the week Illyria's respiratory infection stayed relatively the same so I called back and was charged 40$ for a ciprofloxacin refill. Another week has passed and she is still sick but a recent development was finding centimeter sized white worms wiggling in her litterbox last night and upon litterbox cleaning again this morning.
At this point I've paid this vet an arm and a leg for treatment that hasn't worked and suspect she may have been infected with worms during her spay as I've never had any worm related issues until now. I'm not sure what to do as I don't have many great local options for vets and taking in all 5 of my rat colony for deworming would probably cost me an arm and a leg with this vet. Could the worms be causing the respiratory infection? I'm a little at my wit's end here and worried Illyria might not make it.