Witter had a follow up with Dr. K yesterday. The only new thing to report was a large (and I mean large scab on his chin, about a fourth the size of my little fingernail) I had noticed the day before, the second time I had him out (the first was the birthday party). I immediately thought it was from him scratching; later on I thought, and Dr. K agreed, it was probably an injury of some sort--scratches normally don't remove all of the fur.
The mystery is how he did it. He's an alone rat, and I can't see anything in his cage that would do that. It's weird.
He's still looking good; any scabs are small and not really cause for concern. Dr. K's advice was to continue on with what we're doing, but if it seems to get worse, stop the treatments for two weeks (to get the poison out of his system) then we'll try ivermectin injections.
Posted by Publius at September 16, 2003 09:55 PM