At 12:39 AM 6/30/00 -0400, Donna Anastasi wrote:
>As you may recall, nine days ago I put my puffed-up, clicking pups on
>tetracycline (canary dose).
>
>Four pups are doing great (sadly, one died) and my sixth pup while
>round-bellied with a pretty good sleek coat is showing signs of labored
>breathing tonight. I started him on supplemental KMR feeding about 4 or
>5 days ago when he was really fading -- he's still small about 2 inches
>(5 cm) in body length.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions about further care? What about bedding
>material? (they are on Carefresh with toilet tissue).
>
>-- Donna
>
>
>PS -- I found on the web that respitory infections are a symptom of
>inbreeding. I got Cara from a petstore so I don't know her history.
>But this was a problem in her first litter, too. I won't be breeding
>Cara again.
Oh I don't know about that. Sound more like an allergy to me, since
they've been on antibiotics. It's possible for gerbs to be allergic even
to Carefresh! I have one girl right now that I am trying to slowly
desensitize to it. She's allergic to EVERYTHING poor girl! What other
kinds of bedding have you tried? You could go to the extreme of putting
them on nothing but plain paper for awhile.
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