Introduction
Tue, Oct. 12th, 2010 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alwaysjbjEDIT: *Sigh* I obviously meant to post this to a rat community. lol I guess this is proof that I shouldn't post when I'm in a rush.
These are my lovely girls, they are about 10 months old:
Ivy
Bailey
Please hold out good thoughts for my lovely Bailey as she's not doing too well. She got an infected and ulcerated eye after Ivy played a bit too roughly and bit near her eye. This for some reason triggered her teeth to grow at a ridiculous rate. My vet anaesthetised her, trimmed her teeth, cleaned her eye etc and put her on a few different medications, her eye is much better now, but her teeth are still growing far too quickly for her to wear them down even though she has all sorts of things to gnaw on. She's off to the vet in a couple of days for her follow-up visit and I am worried that the vet is going to say there is nothing that can be done for her.
Has anyone had experience with anything like this before? Will the teeth settle down? Because I can't keep having her anaesthetised every two weeks to have her teeth trimmed, it's just not fair to her, nor is it feasible to drive the hour and a bit each way every two weeks to the only vet around that specialises in rats.
She is such a sweet little girl and has been so brave through all of this and seems to know that we are just trying to help her, even when it hurts. I'd hate to lose her, but I also don't want her to suffer.
These are my lovely girls, they are about 10 months old:
Bailey
Please hold out good thoughts for my lovely Bailey as she's not doing too well. She got an infected and ulcerated eye after Ivy played a bit too roughly and bit near her eye. This for some reason triggered her teeth to grow at a ridiculous rate. My vet anaesthetised her, trimmed her teeth, cleaned her eye etc and put her on a few different medications, her eye is much better now, but her teeth are still growing far too quickly for her to wear them down even though she has all sorts of things to gnaw on. She's off to the vet in a couple of days for her follow-up visit and I am worried that the vet is going to say there is nothing that can be done for her.
Has anyone had experience with anything like this before? Will the teeth settle down? Because I can't keep having her anaesthetised every two weeks to have her teeth trimmed, it's just not fair to her, nor is it feasible to drive the hour and a bit each way every two weeks to the only vet around that specialises in rats.
She is such a sweet little girl and has been so brave through all of this and seems to know that we are just trying to help her, even when it hurts. I'd hate to lose her, but I also don't want her to suffer.
