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Injured Frog! Need Help/Advice
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| 08/22/09 10:32pm |
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Message To: Alucardmai In reference to Message Id: 2062130 Injured Frog! Need Help/Advice
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| 08/23/09 04:48am |
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Message To: Sh0e In reference to Message Id: 2062214 Injured Frog! Need Help/Advice
Thanks for the reply. The frog is still alive and in a habitat we made. We put some flies in with him, but he doesn’t seem to have much of an appetite. The injured leg seems to be doing okay. There is a bone (?) protruding. A friend of ours, who is a veterinarian, said there is a chance it could grow a partial leg. I called our local Pet-smart and they were very helpful. We put filtered water from our refrigerator (twice filtered) in with it, but we are going to add some frog moss and bark to his new home in a few minutes, so we are going to change the water to spring water then. I hope the picture is helpful. It sort of looks like a Casque-headed Tree Frog, but I really have no clue. Thanks again. Any additional advice would be much appreciated. Oh, and we got it some store-bought crickets, too. The picture was uploaded to a photo album and the message said it could be found at the link below: http://www.repticzone.net/images/67430/Frog2.jpg |
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| 08/25/09 09:25pm |
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Message To: Alucardmai In reference to Message Id: 2063485 Injured Frog! Need Help/Advice
I wouldn’t use bark or moss. I would keep it on papertowels for now. You need a clean enviornment for it to heal. Keep it in a quarantine style tank for now. When its leg heals up completely then move it to a permanent enclosure. I would still clear of moss and bark which can be swallowed and cause impactation. Opt for the much less expensive Eco-earth cocofiber that comes in compressed bricks. It’s much safer. Put in some plants and branches and clean water changed daily. You can just get a water treater like Prime from the fish department to make your tap water safe. Wood frogs like cooler weather, though it may be a leopard frog. I’d need a better shot of it’s body and pattern, but for now just concentrate on a clean enviornment and getting the open sores to close. |
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| 08/25/09 10:07pm |
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Message To: Sh0e In reference to Message Id: 2063511 Injured Frog! Need Help/Advice
You have been a great help. This is our first attempt at Frogs and a severely injured one at that. The leg seems to be healing, but the frog won’t eat. We’ve tried various sizes of store bought crickets, but it’s not interested. I guess that’s not surprising, but it has been a week. Any feeding suggestions? We live in Northwest Georgia; about 40 miles north of Atlanta. Right now, we have the frog in a smaller enclosure with a few leaves/twigs from around the house where we think it came from. We placed it outside hoping it will help if it can see its natural environment. We bought a water treatment for fish yesterday and put that in the water. It says it helps fish to heal open wounds and removes chlorine/chloramines from the water, so we are hoping it might help even a little. The frog moss is being removed, but he didn’t really get on it much and he’s not eating, so it hasn’t been an issue with swallowing it. We haven’t been able to catch it to put antibiotic ointment on it because it becomes frenzied and tries to scramble and hop away. We end up freaking out thinking its going to hurt itself! LOL It’s madness here. I guess our main concern at this point is to get it to eat. Have a good weekend. |
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| 08/29/09 09:58am |
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Message To: Alucardmai In reference to Message Id: 2064986 Injured Frog! Need Help/Advice
The frog escaped from its enclosure outside, but wasn’t difficult to find. So, we put something over it to protect it from various predators, and as an after thought, I threw the cricket in with it. The cricket became lunch within 3 minutes! woo hoo! I guess we will have to bring it outside to feed it! |
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| 08/29/09 11:07am |
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