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We've gone 5 days now, no others are sick and the last 4 that were sick are showing energetic signs of life. I think it's passed us now.
The 4 that were sick will never again be in great health. The strain of strep pneumonia that ran through our colony leaves pretty significant damage to the lungs, so they will always have wheezy and crackly breathing, but my two girls that were sick are now coming out of their box to eat regularly and come out to greet me when I open the cage door and the two surrendered boys sat on me last night while I was watching TV, chewing on chocolate covered mint sticks.
I thank everyone for listening/reading my posts, offering support and sympathy, and advice. We're certainly not done with the rescue, but safety and health concerns will certainly hold us back from taking new ones in for about 6 weeks. That will at least give us the time to re-organize and recage the ones who lost all their cage mates and currently sit alone in a cage.
thanks again everyone.
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