This morning, Maatjies eyes looked a little better, but we caught her up and took her along to the vet with Abbu, who was booked in for a vasectomy. As it turned out, Abbu could not have his vasectomy because he had a temperature and diarrhea, so instead he was sent home with medication and we will take him in again when he has recovered. There was better news for Maatjie – we were expecting her to have to stay at the hospital for her medication, but the vet said that she could come home because her eyes were on the mend.
We were concerned as Abbu is the fifth Marmoset going down with diarrhea. The vet said not to worry about it too much and that it was probably a result of the rain and likely to be some bug or something moving through the enclosures infecting the monkeys. She did suggest that we keep a close watch on all the monkeys and that the cage mates of the infected ones also received treatment.
Sarah prepared the medication this afternoon but not one of the monkeys would take the fowl tasting stuff. A bit of a problem, since four monkeys are on it. We tried everything but they were having none of it, so there is only one option left – we have hand catch them and force feed them. Since it was getting late, we will begin this undertaking tomorrow.
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