I am sick too, with some type of throat-hurting cold. I wonder if I gave it to them?
What other sicknesses can they have? I just changed their bedding today. I noticed one had eye discharge just recently, and right now saw stuff in her nose. I looked at her cagemate, and her nose was stuffed up too. Their fur isn't so soft, but not really rumpled.
2007-02-24 15:35:56 · 7 answers · asked by JellyBeans17 3 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
I use Aspen. I guess she is allergic to Aspen then, because I would never ever use pine or cedar. There are so many websites about how bad that is.
2007-02-25 02:25:16 · update #1
Sounds like it has a resperatory infection. I'd take it to the vet to get some antibiotics. My last cage of rats seemed to be really suseptable to it. The vet gave me some baytril to give to them every day for 2 weeks.
By the way, you don't have them on Pine or Cedar bedding, do you?
try putting them on carefresh or yesterday's news. it does not have the aromatic oils that pine and cedar do.
Good luck!
2007-02-24 17:07:26 · answer #1 · answered by pisces_dreamer_dreaming 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have very well passed your cold on to your gerbils. Take them to the vet for antibiotics (if vets deems necessary). Is it possible you are using pine or cedar for litter, if so STOP and change tight away to Carefresh, Crittter care, or aspen (although in rare cases allergic reactions can occur). Please make sure to wash your hands before and after handling them to keep from transmitting your colds to them in the future and making them sicker now. Take a cotton ball dampened with warm water and gently clean the eyes and nose (use different piece for nose and eyes on each). Here's a link to a site I found recently for health care of gerbils.
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Gerbils are small and their health can deteriorate quickly. If their fur texture has changed with their congestion, then they do need a trip to the vet.
2007-02-25 05:04:30 · answer #2 · answered by wolfinator25840 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try carefresh bedding. I've read that the dust and scent and/or oils in any wood based bedding can lead to respiratory problems in small animals like that. Gerbils, hamsters, mice etc.
2007-03-02 13:54:32 · answer #3 · answered by watch4whales 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could be alergic to the bedding. Try corn cob with lots of unscented toilet tissue for nesting. (Never use cedar or pine with gerbils).
2007-03-02 11:11:04 · answer #4 · answered by ABC Gerbils 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a pet store and get him some vitamin drops taht are for small animals
2007-03-02 23:21:41 · answer #5 · answered by JENNIFER H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a vet quick. no one knows animals like a vet
2007-02-24 23:44:03 · answer #6 · answered by .:BeLLe:. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
take it to the vet it is getting the start of something if you don't then it can possibley die.
2007-02-28 15:19:12 · answer #7 · answered by blue_vue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋