Post by leenaandfaysmom on Sept 22, 2014 15:15:18 GMT -8
Hi everyone, I may need some help, please. Yesterday I was playing with my two girls and I saw a cayenne tick climbing on the side of their tank. I looked around and found another one. I didn't panic or anything because my doggie girl Luna was hanging around the tank earlier and she is being treated for ticks, but still I washed the tank, changed the bedding and went to take a look at the girls.
Problem is, my girls were rescued from a laboratory and they get _really_ nervous when I pick them up. So they usually become a gerbil-twister on my hands and I couldn't look properly. I didn't felt any ticks on their fur but Fay have a strange dark brown patch on her belly about the size of a pea. It looks rough, but not infected. She is not scratching herself and they both seem healthy, but I couldn't look at the patch properly because she doesn't let me.
So I have two questions: 1) If they do have ticks, can I use Frontline to treat them? If yes, how much? If not, what kind of medicine I can get them? I would take them to a vet but I live in Brazil and here gerbils are generally just snake food or test subjects, there isn't a single vet on my town that knows how to treat gerbils :/
2) Is there something I could give them to sedate them a little so I could look properly for mites and that brown spot on Fay's belly? They don't even need to black out completely, just get a little groggy so I can hold them with their bellies up for more then 2.4 seconds -.- I though about giving them valeriana root because it's natural but haven't found anything about that on the internet.
Problem is, my girls were rescued from a laboratory and they get _really_ nervous when I pick them up. So they usually become a gerbil-twister on my hands and I couldn't look properly. I didn't felt any ticks on their fur but Fay have a strange dark brown patch on her belly about the size of a pea. It looks rough, but not infected. She is not scratching herself and they both seem healthy, but I couldn't look at the patch properly because she doesn't let me.
So I have two questions: 1) If they do have ticks, can I use Frontline to treat them? If yes, how much? If not, what kind of medicine I can get them? I would take them to a vet but I live in Brazil and here gerbils are generally just snake food or test subjects, there isn't a single vet on my town that knows how to treat gerbils :/
2) Is there something I could give them to sedate them a little so I could look properly for mites and that brown spot on Fay's belly? They don't even need to black out completely, just get a little groggy so I can hold them with their bellies up for more then 2.4 seconds -.- I though about giving them valeriana root because it's natural but haven't found anything about that on the internet.
hope this helps a bit and goodluck!