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rats with mites

Submitted by Nicole (not verified) on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:54.

Hello,

I hope you get this since I see you posted in 09...

Do you remember what your vet told you to do?

Mine said get a fine toothed comb and kitten shampoo with less than .15 pyrethrins.  I have 9 rats and they all hate baths, not to mention pyrethrins are poisonous.  We were treating an adopted girl with a myco infection + lice and she died because the pyrethrins irritated her infection so badly (we had leftover from the first infection and started treating her again but she died anyway!)  

Do you have any suggestions?  Ideas?  I would use ivermectin but they are all different weights and I don't have any kind of conversion formula... when people say to use a drop the size of an uncooked grain of rice, I can only assume you can't use that for all of them.

I would go back to the vet, but it is expensive and I'm afraid to get the same answer as before.  Also, I don't want to admit that I failed with our girl-I feel bad enough already that she died.

If you get this and can help, that would make for some very happy rats =)

Thank you for your time,

Nicole

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