First post here because I want to find more informations to help my little rat Whisper, he is a 2 years old male and is the most adorable rat I ever had.
He started sneezing hundreds times a day like 7 months ago, with more or less liquid projections from his nose (usually a little bit reddish but also transparent), he doesn't look to be suffering but I do see that he lacks energy and its vitality is decreasing.
I went to the veterinary several times and he took antibiotics for some quite long time , as well as anti inflammatory but it doesn't made any changes during nor after the treatment.
So here I am trying to find more informations on what it could be and how I could help him.
Here are few informations to help :
- He got a bad breath at the same moment it started (from nose or mouth) like something is slowly rotting.
- He drinks A LOT since it began
- I uses hemp litter
- Its environment didn't changed (for allergies)
- The veterinary seemed to says that the lungs were alright
- Since 3 weeks he started to frequently shake rapidly its head, like dogs when they are wet (probably doesn't have any links to it)
Could it be a parasite or some kind of internal mycosis ? If it was tumoral it wouldn't last 7 months without drastic evolution ?
Thank you all for any kind of information or help

PS : look at how he likes to be cuddled :
