Thanks, I hope he'll hang in there for a while longer. He's a year and ten months so not the youngest, and the x-ray of his lungs didn't look too good. OTOH my vet has been making dire predictions for Leo since April, and he sounds horrible with myco that's resistant against everything, yet he's still holding on, so maybe Noah will be tough too with his non-myco problems (the vet wasn't sure whether it's a localized infection causing the brighter area in his lung or tumor).
That liver flavor would be useful, though I'm not sure whether those are available here. I'd never heard of them. Though Leo might not have eaten even liver-flavored Baytril. He disdains even Nutri-Cal. Some rats have really odd personal preferences, for example Noah likes mild cheese quite a lot as a treat, but Leo doesn't like that either.
I sometimes used to mix the bitter Baytril with tasty stuff with previous rats (like baby food, mashed potatoes, or nutri-cal) but often then the rat would start delighted but after some bites, become aware that something was fishy with the food, and I was unsure about the dose taken in. Also later on when the rat was in a bad way and I tried to help maintain weight, they then were suspicious of the tastiest supplement food I tried to ply them with, because I had tricked them with it so often. I've gotten fairly good over the years at forcing rats to take oral meds (at least good natured, sweet rats like mine tend to be), though I still fail completely at injections, because I live alone and have nobody else to help me hold the rat still.
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That liver flavor would be useful, though I'm not sure whether those are available here. I'd never heard of them. Though Leo might not have eaten even liver-flavored Baytril. He disdains even Nutri-Cal. Some rats have really odd personal preferences, for example Noah likes mild cheese quite a lot as a treat, but Leo doesn't like that either.
I sometimes used to mix the bitter Baytril with tasty stuff with previous rats (like baby food, mashed potatoes, or nutri-cal) but often then the rat would start delighted but after some bites, become aware that something was fishy with the food, and I was unsure about the dose taken in. Also later on when the rat was in a bad way and I tried to help maintain weight, they then were suspicious of the tastiest supplement food I tried to ply them with, because I had tricked them with it so often. I've gotten fairly good over the years at forcing rats to take oral meds (at least good natured, sweet rats like mine tend to be), though I still fail completely at injections, because I live alone and have nobody else to help me hold the rat still.