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sara
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Hello, all.
This is my first post to your forums. I've never had a frog in my life before now.
Friday night, I saw a frog get hit by more than one car. I got her out of the road and took her home. She was bleeding from a cut under her right eye and from a badly mangled right front flipper. The bleeding stopped within minutes, and I got her settled into a small, temporary plastic Critter Keeper with a couple of inches of bottled spring water and a well-washed rock. She made it through the night.
In the morning, I called my vet, who could not help me, as he had never treated a frog before. I called the one local pet shop that carries frogs, and they were much more helpful, with care instructions and advice. After work, I went there to purchase the recommended larger Critter Keeper, water purification liquid, and crickets.
Ever since then, she has continued to progress. The cut under the eye has healed, but it appears that that eye is now blind. The flipper is healing fairly well, but still looks sore. Here's a link to a picture that clearly shows both the blind eye and the injured flipper: http://www.ball-pythons.net/coppermine+displayimage-album-179-cat-0-pos-0.html
She passed a well-formed and firm stool yesterday, and ate two crickets tonight, so I am convinced she has no internal gut injuries. I had been worried about that.
If any of you can give me some information as to how to help that flipper heal well, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Sara
This is my first post to your forums. I've never had a frog in my life before now.
Friday night, I saw a frog get hit by more than one car. I got her out of the road and took her home. She was bleeding from a cut under her right eye and from a badly mangled right front flipper. The bleeding stopped within minutes, and I got her settled into a small, temporary plastic Critter Keeper with a couple of inches of bottled spring water and a well-washed rock. She made it through the night.
In the morning, I called my vet, who could not help me, as he had never treated a frog before. I called the one local pet shop that carries frogs, and they were much more helpful, with care instructions and advice. After work, I went there to purchase the recommended larger Critter Keeper, water purification liquid, and crickets.
Ever since then, she has continued to progress. The cut under the eye has healed, but it appears that that eye is now blind. The flipper is healing fairly well, but still looks sore. Here's a link to a picture that clearly shows both the blind eye and the injured flipper: http://www.ball-pythons.net/coppermine+displayimage-album-179-cat-0-pos-0.html
She passed a well-formed and firm stool yesterday, and ate two crickets tonight, so I am convinced she has no internal gut injuries. I had been worried about that.
If any of you can give me some information as to how to help that flipper heal well, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Sara