PitLuvs
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If there hasnt been enough going on lately thats stressfull, Stewart has some issues 
This morning when I woke up, I heard someone in the big boy cage sooking, litterally sounded like little poutin'/cries. I go on my hunt to see which of the three is sick, and its Stewart Ive heard these sounds before. He is making grunting sounds when he breathes, sounds very conjested, and he's a little hyper active today. His eyes and nose are clear, no sneezing. When I first took him out, he was a 9/10 for noise, after a few bouts of hacking, he's only at a 4/10. He sounds like a coffee maker thats ready to kick the bucket.
Sadly, for this time of the year, we're going to have to make a vet run. Is this an upper res infection? Whats the best thing to treat it? Id like to be sure of what I want before I head to a vet that *might* not know everything about rats.
Im a nervous wreck, as bad as it sounds, Stews my fav Anything I could give him today for some relief??
*Update*
Ive given him the benedryl, he's boucning off the walls as we speak. Ive never seen a rat act so hyper, like a 2 yr old kid into everything. Before I gave him the meds, he wasnt himself, laying in the open at the bottom of the cage insted of his hammock as usual. The raspy rock grinding is gone, but we're keeping an eye on him. Could this be an allergy insted of infection? Ive intro'd no yoke noodles to their treats, could this have been something to trigger this?
This morning when I woke up, I heard someone in the big boy cage sooking, litterally sounded like little poutin'/cries. I go on my hunt to see which of the three is sick, and its Stewart
Ive heard these sounds before. He is making grunting sounds when he breathes, sounds very conjested, and he's a little hyper active today. His eyes and nose are clear, no sneezing. When I first took him out, he was a 9/10 for noise, after a few bouts of hacking, he's only at a 4/10. He sounds like a coffee maker thats ready to kick the bucket.Sadly, for this time of the year, we're going to have to make a vet run. Is this an upper res infection? Whats the best thing to treat it? Id like to be sure of what I want before I head to a vet that *might* not know everything about rats.
Im a nervous wreck, as bad as it sounds, Stews my fav
Anything I could give him today for some relief?? *Update*
Ive given him the benedryl, he's boucning off the walls as we speak. Ive never seen a rat act so hyper, like a 2 yr old kid into everything. Before I gave him the meds, he wasnt himself, laying in the open at the bottom of the cage insted of his hammock as usual. The raspy rock grinding is gone, but we're keeping an eye on him. Could this be an allergy insted of infection? Ive intro'd no yoke noodles to their treats, could this have been something to trigger this?
