Sick..very sick. Jammer's found lying in his own pee. The first thing that came across my mind is wet-tail. His paws and feet were cold. His coat was scuffy, with ears down, and one of the eyes was closed with pus. He looked on the verge of death as I could see his heart beat so fast. The best I can do is to transfer him out of his cage and place him in a new cardboard box with fresh bedding, tissue, water and food. As he cannot take hard food, I cooked some hard-boiled egg. Though the little one is sick, he is still appreciative. A restless night followed with constant monitoring..but I fell asleep eventually.
DAY 2 Monday
Prepared some scrambled egg for him and he likes it, but he took only a tiny portion of the entire bowl. I was worried about his water intake as he refuse to drink from his water dispenser. He slept and slept and sometimes I think he won't make it as he slept in all sorts of contorted positions. One interesting thing I found is that he was always found with his head resting on the rim of the food bowl. Later at night I ran to the stores and bought him a syringe. He is not happy about this part and after all that effort blobs of water droplets just accumulated outside his mouth. I think maybe out of these blobs he only tried drinking 10% of it.
Day 3 Tuesday
Bought 2 sprays for cage cleaning and antiseptic respectively as I suspect the culprit for his illness is bacteria infection. A lot of work to do now! As for Jammer: more resting, and plan B for food. Cooked him porridge. And he seems to like it and tucked his head in right away. Finally I found a good way to hydrate him. Now all I could do is to make him comfortable and wait for him to recover.
Day 4 Wednesday
Jammer woke me up today. His constant scratching is even better than alarm clock as his box is on my bedside table. He's much lively today and yes, he shrank in size. Where is that fat carpet-look-a-like Jammer? I am gonna beef him up when he's fully recovered. And with all that scratching he's destroying his temporary nursing room, so I better clean up and restore his cage asap.
Update:
1.08am. Hooray! Cage cleaning done. Took me 3 hours!.... Scrubbed down everything and disinfected everything. I think all the action is going to make me into a clean freak when it comes to Jammer hygience. And boy..he was happy and excited and went right to the second floor and lodged himself onto the top of the cage, completely ignoring the 2 floors drop. I think he's amazing. It puzzles me how quick his attitude changed when I moved him from the temporary cage to his own cleaned cage. At the temp place he's always resting more than moving around but once in the cleaned cage he's back to his old self. I wonder why..but at least for now I dont have to worry about him suddenly die on me anymore.
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