The vet I saw at Acorn said "I think it's an infection, let's give him Baytril and see if that works" where as the vet in Woodland took xrays and saw a malignant tumor and concluded that it was cancer. I just lost a rat last week to pneumonia and my first rat showed the same symptoms so it probably wasn't cancer to begin with. The only way to know for sure would be to do a necropsy and submit the sample to pathology for testing. I'm just saying one vet might have thought it was an infection and the other might have thought it was cancer. 15:10:04 Krystal, was a necropsy performed on your rat? If not, how do you know it was cancer and not an infection? Rats frequently get pneumonia that looks very much like cancer. I'd recommend them for dogs & cats and maybe other pets, but I would rather stick to Midtown Animal Clinic for my rats. I wish I had gone to a more knowledgable Vet, maybe I could have saved my rat from any pain and suffering. Well the night my rat died, I rushed him to the Woodland ER and it turned out he didn't have an infection, he had cancer that had already spread so it was too late and we euthanized him. My pet rat supposedly had cancer (according to the Woodland vet) but before I considered the Woodland Vet clinic, I saw one of the Vets at Acorn (because it was my regular Vet) and she said that my rat probably had an infection and prescribed antibiotics.
12:32:11 This place is great but I don't think they knew too much about pet rats. 21:38:11 I wonder if this place take student interns ? - ElizabethBarthel
good place to go, at least from my experience with my hamster.
20:15:36 my hamster was sick and when we took him in the staff and vets were very friendly and made us feel relaxed. 16:11:22 We've taken pets here for years- it's a great place - AntoniaOakley
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