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Today I visited our local vet. With me came Rubisco and Sucrose.
Rubisco has had this on-off not-quite-diarrhoea for a couple of weeks. She's a good weight, perky, eating normally, drinking normally, active and pink-nosed, so aside from making a complete mess of her bed, she's fine. But as she was a little bit stained around the bottom and seemed to be doing fewer normal poos, I popped her along.
Sucrose is also perfectly cheerful, happy, hungry and active. But in the last week or so she's started making this weird twittery noise. The odd thing is that she mostly does it when she knows I'm watching her, so I'm not sure if it's partly just attention-seeking. But I found a hamster on YouTube making a similar noise, and the video received a large number of comments saying, "Your hamster has a chest infection! Take her to the vet!" Obviously, YouTube comments don't really count as a source of reliable knowledge, but I figured it was better to take her to the vet and be laughed at for being an overreacting fool than ignore it until she goes downhill.
( Hamsters meet vet, are declared an enigma )
Both of them are very annoyed with me now as I had to wake them both up to take them to the vets and they were SO not impressed. Rubisco especially as her attitude to early risers is about the same as mine!
Still, I'm glad that I got them checked over, and glad that he's not really concerned. I guess we'll see how they go!
Oh yes...and the bill. £35. I got a bit too used to my parents' local vet, which basically didn't really charge us for small animal consultations or much more than they needed to cover the costs of the medications. Ah, well. Businesses have to make money somehow, I suppose!
Rubisco has had this on-off not-quite-diarrhoea for a couple of weeks. She's a good weight, perky, eating normally, drinking normally, active and pink-nosed, so aside from making a complete mess of her bed, she's fine. But as she was a little bit stained around the bottom and seemed to be doing fewer normal poos, I popped her along.
Sucrose is also perfectly cheerful, happy, hungry and active. But in the last week or so she's started making this weird twittery noise. The odd thing is that she mostly does it when she knows I'm watching her, so I'm not sure if it's partly just attention-seeking. But I found a hamster on YouTube making a similar noise, and the video received a large number of comments saying, "Your hamster has a chest infection! Take her to the vet!" Obviously, YouTube comments don't really count as a source of reliable knowledge, but I figured it was better to take her to the vet and be laughed at for being an overreacting fool than ignore it until she goes downhill.
( Hamsters meet vet, are declared an enigma )
Both of them are very annoyed with me now as I had to wake them both up to take them to the vets and they were SO not impressed. Rubisco especially as her attitude to early risers is about the same as mine!
Still, I'm glad that I got them checked over, and glad that he's not really concerned. I guess we'll see how they go!
Oh yes...and the bill. £35. I got a bit too used to my parents' local vet, which basically didn't really charge us for small animal consultations or much more than they needed to cover the costs of the medications. Ah, well. Businesses have to make money somehow, I suppose!
