I've had my two pet rats for three weeks now and I'm worried about their health.
We originally took them to the vet because they had both started sneezing when we got them home from the pet shop. The vet said it could be an infection but because there was no eating issues or discharge it probalby wasn't myco. He put them on a three day antibiotic and told us to come back. Their sneezing has become both less frequent now and doesn't have the same harsh sound to it as it did before. We also started noticing blood on the bedding towel in their cages and that their tails had yellowy/green blotch marks on their tails almost like bruises, but didn't feel raised. The vet recommended we separate them for a week. After the week nothing seems to have changed for them and we put them back together in the same cage. However we've noticed that one of them has started to get really bad scabs/cuts on his ear, and the other is developing it too but to a much smaller extent. The vet wasn't sure what was wrong with them but has given us another set of antibiotics that's meant to run for three weeks to see if they get any better. The marks on creo's ear(the worst) have gotten worse but our other rat, gumby, has just got small spots(almost like human Whiteheads). I've attached a photo of creo's to let you see his ear, I read on a rat caresheet that he may have ringworm? Also, our rat gumby has developed a little cut just behind his right forepaw and it seems to have gotten a little infected and now looks like a larger scab. Could this be related to the ears or will it just be a cut/something else?
I feed them on a mixture of rat mix from the shop we bought them and special rat nuggets from Petsmart. Their bedding is (non dusty) kitchen towel and I'm cleaning the cage with a pet-safe disinfectant we got with the cage.
Does anybody have any ideas/advice on what could be wrong?
We originally took them to the vet because they had both started sneezing when we got them home from the pet shop. The vet said it could be an infection but because there was no eating issues or discharge it probalby wasn't myco. He put them on a three day antibiotic and told us to come back. Their sneezing has become both less frequent now and doesn't have the same harsh sound to it as it did before. We also started noticing blood on the bedding towel in their cages and that their tails had yellowy/green blotch marks on their tails almost like bruises, but didn't feel raised. The vet recommended we separate them for a week. After the week nothing seems to have changed for them and we put them back together in the same cage. However we've noticed that one of them has started to get really bad scabs/cuts on his ear, and the other is developing it too but to a much smaller extent. The vet wasn't sure what was wrong with them but has given us another set of antibiotics that's meant to run for three weeks to see if they get any better. The marks on creo's ear(the worst) have gotten worse but our other rat, gumby, has just got small spots(almost like human Whiteheads). I've attached a photo of creo's to let you see his ear, I read on a rat caresheet that he may have ringworm? Also, our rat gumby has developed a little cut just behind his right forepaw and it seems to have gotten a little infected and now looks like a larger scab. Could this be related to the ears or will it just be a cut/something else?
I feed them on a mixture of rat mix from the shop we bought them and special rat nuggets from Petsmart. Their bedding is (non dusty) kitchen towel and I'm cleaning the cage with a pet-safe disinfectant we got with the cage.
Does anybody have any ideas/advice on what could be wrong?
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