Small Mammals & Pocket Pets — Veterinary Drug Dosing
Pocket-pet dosing has far more species-to-species variance than dog/cat medicine: rabbits and other hindgut fermenters cannot tolerate oral narrow-spectrum β-lactams, ferrets metabolise some drugs at carnivore rates, and guinea pigs need dietary vitamin C. ExoticRx surfaces those contraindications alongside cited, species-specific dose rules.
Small Mammals & Pocket Pets in the ExoticRx formulary (13)
- African Pygmy Hedgehogs
Atelerix albiventris
- Chinchillas
Chinchilla lanigera
- Degus
Octodon degus
- Dwarf Hamsters
Phodopus spp.
- Ferrets
Mustela putorius furo
- Gerbils
Meriones unguiculatus
- Guinea Pigs
Cavia porcellus
- Mice
Mus musculus
- Pet Rats
Rattus norvegicus var. domestica
- Prairie Dogs
Cynomys ludovicianus
- Rabbits
Oryctolagus cuniculus
- Sugar Gliders
Petaurus breviceps
- Syrian Hamsters
Mesocricetus auratus
Guides for small mammals & pocket pets
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