RIP: Tyr, 2010-2012

[UncleChester]

Went to feed Tyr this evening and as usual I had to do some searching to find him as he has oodles of hiding spots. Sadly, when I did finally locate him, he was lying on the ground with his face pushed into a corner, his legs hanging loosely to the sides, and no longer alive.

This came as a pretty big shock. Everything had seemed just peachy up to this. Apart from his deformed left hand of course, which never developed properly and was the reason I took him in from the wild nearly two years ago. He just wasn't as agile as a fully formed frog, so we figured his chances in the wild were slim at best. There had been no changes in his diet, activity, or droppings, or really anything that I can think of. I'm hoping that given his birth defect he just 'wasn't right', but he had made it 2 years so I really dunno what to say.

He was always more secretive and jumpy than my other Grays, and hence very few pictures of him exist. Honestly I didn't even see him nearly as often as my other frogs. I usually let his tank stay in a fairly overgrown state, he fell off stuff fairly often when jumping from one place to the other (that messed up hand really made a difference), so more plants meant less distance to fall. Even so, his tank seems kinda sad and lonely now when I look at it and know that it's empty. What a difference a wee little frog can make, even if you can't usually see him.

He's my first frog casualty and undoubtedly not the last. If it ever gets any easier to lose a frog, I suppose I wouldn't want to keep them anymore. Rest in peace my little one armed friend, hope you've found your way to Froggy Valhalla.