Thank you for the link! i will contact him. does he charge a fee for answering questions?![]()
toads do have a nictitating membrane so hopefully she can do like your turtle.
her face was not injured in the accident (thank god) here's her full back story. lol
we were doing yard work at an elderly friend's, mom was digging with a shovel and the toad was burrowed down in the dirt. the shovel cut off her arm and cut open the skin on her side.
her skin did what a cat or rabbit's would do if cut (idk if you've ever seen either one with a cut) and it pulled back exposing half of her body. i'll attach pics.
toads' blood clots faster than humans or mammals so her arm had stopped bleeding by the time i got her to the car. i used ice to clean the dirt from the injury by holding it to melt it a little. i then put a handful of ice cubes in the bottom of a small, hard plastic cooler and put a cloth over them, then set the toad on it and closed the lid. i did that to bring down her body temp to near hibernation to keep her from stressing and trying to move. i kept her "on ice" for three days (cleaning and changing the ice and cloth daily) and then let her come back to normal temp. she started eating on day 4 and made amazing progress. i've kept her in the cooler all this time because its a small environment i can keep clean easily. she has had no problems prior to this eye thing.here are the pics i took one week after the accident: you can imagine how bad it was because these pics show she'd already started healing.
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here are the pics i took one week after the accident: you can imagine how bad it was because these pics show she'd already started healing.
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