Hi Sarah,
I'm sorry to hear about the gerbils. I had an awful illness and I lost over 30
gerbils. I could have prevented many deaths if I knew how. So now I'm telling
you what I know now: Put everyone on antibiodics ASAP. Don't give out any
gerbils and don't recieve any new ones. You may even wants to clean all cages,
toys, etc. so there are no germs crawling around just making the problem worse.
About your other pets, my vet told me that almost any other small rodent can
catch Tyzzer's with the exeption of rabbits. So you should keep them seperate
from the gerbils and ALWAYS wash your hands before handling any of them.
Paige
"(Sarah) (Churchman)" wrote:
> Hi I am not medicating my Gerbils at the moment.I don't have any
> Ornayacycline but I have put something from the pet shop in the water bottles
> of the sick ones, all they had was "loose stool remedy" for sick birds which
> contains something called "liq.bismouth et ammon cit 8.3%" I bought it last
> week( when 3 of my 5 week old pups died) and have only started them on it
> last night.Could this "remedy" be harmful?
> I am going to phone the vet first thing in the morning and ask her to give me
> some antibiotic.I was quite surprised on my last visit actually as she did
> not treat either of the Males and I told her I have lots more gerbils but she
> did not prescribe anything for them.
> Another question is, I keep Chinchillas, Degus and Dwarf Hamsters too, do I
> need to medicate them as well? A couple of my hamsters have had ruffled coats
> lately but I think that is because they always fight over the water bottle
> and I have removed the "bullies" now so everything should be O.K now
> hopefully.
> I have now lost 12 Gerbils in the last fortnight!!!!
> Thanks Sarah
