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Sarahbean · 10-09-2015, 11:28 PM

Hello! So I have just adopted my female syrian 'Bug' (yes I have owned several Syrians in the past), no health concerns for the two weeks I have had her.. Until the past two days. She will not stop scratching, rolling, rubbing on the bars, basically anything to scratch her seemingly itchy skin. I have tried searching for mites (nothing really I could see) but I don't want to completely cross that off the list, as it still has only been 48 hours since this obsessive itching has began. Tonight I am changing her aspen bedding for shredded paper and taking out newer treats to see if that makes any difference.
So I come to you to see if anyone else has come across problems like this, and how you would make their itching stop.

Also, she is a rescue (from an animal hoarding sitation and then taken to a shelter and I took her out of foster care) and was born 4/5 months ago if that helps at all.

10-09-2015, 11:28 PM
Sarahbean Newborn Pup Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 43	Itchy itchy itchy Hello! So I have just adopted my female syrian 'Bug' (yes I have owned several Syrians in the past), no health concerns for the two weeks I have had her.. Until the past two days. She will not stop scratching, rolling, rubbing on the bars, basically anything to scratch her seemingly itchy skin. I have tried searching for mites (nothing really I could see) but I don't want to completely cross that off the list, as it still has only been 48 hours since this obsessive itching has began. Tonight I am changing her aspen bedding for shredded paper and taking out newer treats to see if that makes any difference. So I come to you to see if anyone else has come across problems like this, and how you would make their itching stop. Also, she is a rescue (from an animal hoarding sitation and then taken to a shelter and I took her out of foster care) and was born 4/5 months ago if that helps at all.