Quote Originally Posted by LIZZIE82 View Post
I feel just awful and I've pretty much crashed with feverbsince I got him home. He's still alive. He's hanging out in his bowl and I'm keeping the temp a consistent 80° instead of dropping at night. I haven't fed him. I also still have his cage lined with paper towels. I'm afraid substrate will irritate him. What do you all think? I plan on a liquid diet of of the repta boost for about a month so he wont have yo digest and pass crickets. Maybe give him some red wigglers or earthworms in about two weeks. Please give any advice you all have. The vet shoved it back in and stitched him up. That was it. No other advice after that. I'm still really sick and can't watch as well as I'd like.
You can buy canned cat/dog food for sick and malnurished animals. Royal Canine makes a good one. You can suck it up in a seringe. Make sure its a solid lump. Nothing shredded or chopped because you won't be able to suck it up in the seringe. Its soft and easy for them to digest. Once opened it only lasts a week in the fridge. Every time you get it out of the fridge for feeding suck some up in the seringe and suspend the seringe in some warm water to warm the food. You'll have to coax his mouth open like force feeding. Once his mouths open carefully squeeze the food in his mouth. Very easy for them to swallow. I've used it before. Works well for sick frogs. I don't know how it will be passed though until your frog heals. It doesn't make very solid waste though. Worms will work too.