ReepacheepTheRat
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Hi all,
Long time rat owner here. I have five very rowdy ratties right now and recently there have been some mishaps with the water bottles where they get chewed through so I have replaced their three broken water bottles with a large dog dish.
Anyways two days ago the dog dish was flipped over and I came home from work to find the entire upper floor of my Ferret Nation flooded. I changed out the whole cage and added pebbles to the bottom of the dog dish to weigh it down but now am dealing with sick rats.
Overall there is a lot of sneezing. Particularly my one boy rat, Reepacheep, has clear discharge (yep you heard me... clear not red) coming out of his nose. I've never seen anything like it and would love some advice on what to do. Additionally one of my "teenagers", Buffy, who is about six months has a small amount of red discharge from one eye. I've immediately started giving them all vitamins but am wondering what to do.
For background I live in Ohio and good exotic vets are nonexistent in my area so I am a little worried. My rats are the only rat patients of the exotic vet they currently see and I basically have to fight on the phone to get them in a few days. I have had rats almost die trying to get antibiotics from him because of the lack of ability to get a timely appointment so am especially paranoid about sickness. Is there anything else I can do at this point to prevent them from getting sick? Should I make a vet appointment or am I being paranoid? Has anyone ever seen clear discharge coming out of a rats nose? Any advice would be much appreciated
Long time rat owner here. I have five very rowdy ratties right now and recently there have been some mishaps with the water bottles where they get chewed through so I have replaced their three broken water bottles with a large dog dish.
Anyways two days ago the dog dish was flipped over and I came home from work to find the entire upper floor of my Ferret Nation flooded. I changed out the whole cage and added pebbles to the bottom of the dog dish to weigh it down but now am dealing with sick rats.
Overall there is a lot of sneezing. Particularly my one boy rat, Reepacheep, has clear discharge (yep you heard me... clear not red) coming out of his nose. I've never seen anything like it and would love some advice on what to do. Additionally one of my "teenagers", Buffy, who is about six months has a small amount of red discharge from one eye. I've immediately started giving them all vitamins but am wondering what to do.
For background I live in Ohio and good exotic vets are nonexistent in my area so I am a little worried. My rats are the only rat patients of the exotic vet they currently see and I basically have to fight on the phone to get them in a few days. I have had rats almost die trying to get antibiotics from him because of the lack of ability to get a timely appointment so am especially paranoid about sickness. Is there anything else I can do at this point to prevent them from getting sick? Should I make a vet appointment or am I being paranoid? Has anyone ever seen clear discharge coming out of a rats nose? Any advice would be much appreciated