To your health
May 5, 2009 11:26 PM | 0

 

Christopher has had a bit of a sniffle for the past week or so -- have you ever heard a rat sneeze? It is peculiar. So we brought him to the vet today. It was his first time out of the house since he arrived back in January.

It was not a fun time for him, alas. The vet alarmed him. The flashlight she shone in his nose alarmed him. The stethoscope she put against his chest to listen to his breathing alarmed him. And he was especially alarmed when he found antibiotic being squirted into his mouth.

We're going to have to keep administering a liquid antibiotic for another 10 days. Our first attempt this evening to get it into him was ... contentious. A fair amount of it wound up on our hands and sleeves. Have you ever tried to put 3 drops of medicine into a sneezing rat? It is messy.