Pet Rat Update

[ristin]

For the people who assumed I was referring to Marko when I said I was taking a pet rat to the vet...no I did not mean Marko.

Bo the rat has had noisy breathing on and off most of the year, and on Tuesday we noticed he had trouble working his back legs. I took him into the vet after work on Wednesday and the vet said Bo had had a stroke.

We can treat the noisy breathing (again) and for now I have Bo in the small cage so he can recover a bit on his own. As for the stroke and loss of rear leg control, it could improve over time but it definitely won't get worse.

He is in no pain or distress, which is what matters most to me.



Other than that, it's hay fever time again. It has been messing up my sinuses for a while and caused me to be up painfully early a few mornings already. I have some Zyrtec for that. It's just some over-the counter stuff, so nobody worry.

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[ristin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. At the moment Bo needs medicated water so we have them seperated (but the cages side by side). I will be giving them supervised playtime together out of their cages for an hour or so tonight too. I do that sort of thing often, trying to have them out when they are most active in the day, like around dusk for our lazy boys.

Anyway for long term they will need one cage to share.

Thanks for the sizing advice!