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He gapes both inside and outside his cage. I'm unsure for how long in his cage and for a minute or so outside of his cage. But he usually gapes outside of his cage when he is still warm, although that isn't the case. He's 3 years old.

He has started gaping more often again, but his breathing isn't labored when he does it. It's really hard to tell if he is sick to be honest. He has enough energy to climb up the side of his cage and run to his favorite window ledge when I let him out, but he has less energy than he did a month...

Update: I took Franklin off of the medication around 2/27. Since then he has been very active and his appetite has been very good. He likes to run around the house and cause problems. (He started eating cat hair so I had to vacuum the entire house for it) No signs of any respiratory...

He doesn't put up with it very well. He constantly tries to wrestle out of my grasp. Perhaps that is why he has gotten stronger over the last few months, haha. I will be sure to look into that. He is on Veraflox, which is specifically designed to fight strains of Pasteurella multocida...

To put it bluntly, I am just trying to figure out: 1. If the vet is either a quack/a scammer. She's been good in the past, but this whole situation has been upsetting. 2. Should I continue going to the vet about this? This whole ordeal has been so expensive that I can't afford to get a second...

The MRSA was found in his nose, not on the skin. They wanted to do a skin culture and I refused. I restrain him at a downward angle, use a tongue suppressor to open his mouth, and someone else runs the lukewarm Saline Solution 0.9% with Enrofloxacin and Gentamicin through each nostril and it...

I still hear some of the crackling. Granted, I am not sure if it is due to the infection or the daily nasal flushes.

Thanks for the response. What prompted the initial vet visit was he was breathing weird and I heard crackling. When a culture was performed, it showed MSRA staph was presence in his nostril. She wants me to continue the daily nasal flush, Pradofloxacin, and the silver cream. The only reason why...