Please Help!!!! Swollen leg!!

[Mentat]

Just read your whole thread and imagine what your frog and yourself have gone through. Hang in there and good luck; hope frog recovers soon!

[DisguisedMadness]

Thank you.. We are sticking strictly to the regimen of cleaning, putting the ointment on the wound, forcing meds and crickets, and monitoring humidity and temperature levels (which is hard to do with brown paper towels as a substrate!!) and she is putting up with it pretty decently considering.

[Purrdoc]

I agree with the trying the worms (earthworms/night crawlers) over crickets. I think they will be easier to feed and be a bit easier to digest for what your froggy is going through right now. You can cut them up into pieces to make it easier. What medications are you giving? If they are ones that are injectable that you draw up with a needle and syringe then give orally (without the needle), you can inject it into the worm to make things easier for you. If it is just a regular liquid oral solution, it doesn't work.

[DisguisedMadness]

I agree with the trying the worms (earthworms/night crawlers) over crickets. I think they will be easier to feed and be a bit easier to digest for what your froggy is going through right now. You can cut them up into pieces to make it easier. What medications are you giving? If they are ones that are injectable that you draw up with a needle and syringe then give orally (without the needle), you can inject it into the worm to make things easier for you. If it is just a regular liquid oral solution, it doesn't work.

The meds are the liquid oral meds.. I do have to give it to her in a syringe, but unfortunately there's no needle so I can't inject it into her food. I'm def gonna get some nightcrawlers as soon as I get paid again because with the powder on the crickets it seems as though she's having a little bit of a tough time getting the cricket to go down. I've been giving her the smaller ones, as I don't want to overwhelm her system. And I've been feeding her one every other day.. Poor thing doesn't have an appetite at all!!

[GrifTheGreat]

The meds are the liquid oral meds.. I do have to give it to her in a syringe, but unfortunately there's no needle so I can't inject it into her food. I'm def gonna get some nightcrawlers as soon as I get paid again because with the powder on the crickets it seems as though she's having a little bit of a tough time getting the cricket to go down. I've been giving her the smaller ones, as I don't want to overwhelm her system. And I've been feeding her one every other day.. Poor thing doesn't have an appetite at all!!

Just like us when they become ill or are severly injured appetite lose is almost always a common reaction. The only way to keep them from starving is to force feed. I had to do the same thing to my female Pacman Grif. She didn't like the meds either. I did feed her a high calorie cat/dog food through a seringe. She actually liked that a lot and would willingly allow me to open her mouth when she saw what was in the seringe. Very easy for her to swallow and digest.

[DisguisedMadness]

Just like us when they become ill or are severly injured appetite lose is almost always a common reaction. The only way to keep them from starving is to force feed. I had to do the same thing to my female Pacman Grif. She didn't like the meds either. I did feed her a high calorie cat/dog food through a seringe. She actually liked that a lot and would willingly allow me to open her mouth when she saw what was in the seringe. Very easy for her to swallow and digest.

Could I actually give that to my Whites?? That would be awesome and probably better for her right now!

[GrifTheGreat]

Could I actually give that to my Whites?? That would be awesome and probably better for her right now!

Yes they are a carnivor/insectivor so they can eat it. Look for the brand "Royal Canine". It needs to be one for malnurished animals and it has to be the solid lump canned food. Not the shredded or chopped. Otherwise you can't suck it up into the seringe. You'll keep it in the fridge and the only problem is it lasts only for about a week then you have to throw it out. When you use it make sure its warmed first. All you have to do is get a small glass and fill it with warm de-chlorinated water. Then set the filled seringe in the water and th food will be warmed. Be careful when squeezing the food out in her mouth. Just do about half the seringe at a time. You'll still want to give her crickets and worms between uses of the canned food so she is still geting a varied diet and her normal food. Plus you can't dust the canned food. Lol! that would be difficult.