Butterscotch2
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2007
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- Joined
- Dec 15, 2007
- Messages
- 180
Someone I know has two rats. She rescued them in August of 2007. Their names are Dora and Degio (both girls). They were put in seperate cages. Diego is brown and Dora is a whiteish-gray. First, they both started off with red blood crusting around their eyes. I researched this and found out it could be stress from the new home. Dora's blood went away after the first week. Deigo's blood went away after the second week. But came back the next week. Some time after that I was insepcting them and I found out Dora was getting fat, but Deigo stayed the same weight. Then, Dora started to grow a lumped out of her side. My friend didn't do anything about it. Because it wasn't growing any bigger. (I thouhgt that was wrong. Being much older than me I didn't want to "boss" her around). And Deigo started to lose hair. Next I noticed that Dora was staring to get really fat! So fat that she had wrinkles wrinkling up on her legs. Also, she started to lose hair. A week later I saw on her foot a medium-sized sore-looking thing. By then it was Christmas and they were in the same cage. I asked her to call the vet and see what was wrong with them. The only info she gave me back was that she was supposed to put neosporn (yes, the cut treatments for humans) on Dora's sore and Visine (yes, the eye drops for humans) on Deigo's eye. At the time she had asked me to baby-sit them for Christmas. Of course I said yes. After one week of the medicine I found out neither one of the medicines was helping (I wonder why). From that time to now nothing seemed to get worse. but now Dora's lump has gotten bigger and her sore-thing is huge! Bigger than her foot! Their tails are kind of brown, skin wise. Well, just today I also noticed that the tip of her tail was white and had lost the brown skin, and more hair. Deigo's eye is still not better, either. Sadly, they are almost two years old. Today, esecially at 2:00, Deigo was really week. One she climbed up on my friend's shoulder and almost feel off (that was the last time we let her do that). You can she her ribs. It is a sad sight. Her time may be up:weepy:. What can I do? I see them 5 days a week and I hate seeing them that way. Also, does anyone what could be wrong with Dora and Deigo?