The unbeatable RI.

[MMReptiles]

I'm so sorry for your loss ! I'm in the same situation as well. In december my normal female at 16-1700g stopped eating. She was healthy and fine untill about 4 months ago she got an RI. And I've had the same as you going, getting better, then worse, then better, then worse.... She her 3-4 round of antibiotics on a two weeks cure, and about a month ago I bought the F10 and fogger and startet this.. I also decided to assist feed her with rat fuzzie to see if she would eat it, since her weight now is 1098g, and I'm glad to tell she's eating almost every rat fuzzie I've assisted her with. The last one I was giving her (I always dangle it in front of her to see if she'll strike by her self) and she did ! She became better, seemed almost healty for two weeks ago and now it's back to the drawling and breathing noises..... So she's in a new round of antibiotics, still getting fogged(never stopped) and her tub is cleaned and sprayed a thin layer of F10 to airdry. The heat is of course sat up and I don't know what more to do.. She's full of energy though, but for her lenght and year she's pretty thin "/

How long is long enough for the animals? When it goes too long is it better to euthanize the animal or should we keep trying and see if they make it or not ?

In my eyes, and I haven't had experience with viral- if you even get the chance to fully ID it as a viral... Sometimes if you get conditions just perfect you can get the viral to either die down a lot, or subside, and they can live a "normal" life- if it comes up viral though, and isn't responding to anything, I'd say euthanize it. Too many people put animals through a ton of pain/suffering for the person's hope, when frankly the animal would probably rather be put out of it's misery...

If she's been sick 4 months and nothing is working, I'd put her down myself..