Also, a quick question: right now, I've been administering the antibiotic by soaking her in warm water with the daily dosage dissolved in it. Is this reliable? If not, how should I do it? So far it's the only method that works; she won't drink water with medicine in it and she gags and...
And finally, one week of fasting later, she's healthy enough to eat! Granted, it was a small amount of food, but better than nothing, right? Also, I used a small dose of the antibiotics that @daniellenc told me to save, and that's helping out a lot. Hopefully a few more days of basking and maybe...
Yeah, I'll try to find one. In the meantime, I have the radiator facing the hide box she's sleeping in on 93 degrees. Can I safely use this for tonight?
And after monitoring for a while, I came to realise that she has a cold (sneezing, mucus, sounds exactly like me when I have a stuffy nose, etc. ). And I think it's because her basking spot was down for maintenance, and the frigid winter cold at night did the trick. So aside from restoring that...
So this weird thing happened. I took her for the daily soak, and she gave me these strange vocalizations. I've never heard anything like them, but it's sort of like a mix of a newborn kitten mewling and a bird chirping. What's with that?
Day 4, still showing no appetite (even with the absolutely minimal interaction with people on that day) and what's more, she's spending most of her time with her eyes closed, for some reason. What does that mean?
So the second soak improved her appetite a little (but only a little), and since my internet was down and I couldn't ask you guys, I took her to a vet just to make sure, and he went ahead and prescribed an antibiotic. Which, frankly, has me skeptical. Should I use as drastic of a measure as...
So I tried the soak, in carrot baby food with a few drops of bird vitamins, with the UV lamp overhead, and I was met with the characteristic running around instead of eating. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow morning (It was 9:30 when I tried for the first time), and I'll try feeding again. 48 hours...
Still no luck! I tried a warm bath and half an hour of sunlight, and she still shows zero interest in her dandelions or rocket or whatever lies in front of her. Even a few minutes of basking beneath her infra-red bulb did nothing to boost her appetite. What do I do?
This is really weird. She's been eating and pooping fine for the past two and a half weeks, and today, her appetite suddenly dropped. And the weird thing is, that's the only thing that dropped. The rest of the behavior is normal; normal drinking, normal pacing around the enclosure, normal...