Need help caring for dying frog.

[tinkgirl77]

Good to hear meds are on the way. You hang in there too. Hoping the best for y'all. She's such a pretty lil one and you're such a great care take to get her the care she needs. We re all rooting for ya on ff!

[deeishealthy]

Sending healing vibes.

[deeishealthy]

Sending healing vibes.

[Psychotic]

I may not need the Flagyl after all. Last night I gave Lillly a cricket. She would chase it a little but couldn't seem to catch it. She refused to take it from feeding tongs. So, I left it with her over night and this morning it was gone! I thought it might have escaped so I put in a couple more small crickets and she pounced on them and ate them pretty fast. I gave her two more small crickets and those disappeared quickly too. She is still hunting around looking for more. But I don't want her to engorge herself lol.

I'm just really happy she is eating because that means she must feel better.

I have my fingers crossed she will digest them and poop and everything will go good. I'm going to get her some earthworms to eat. They should be easier to digest.

[Gnag the nameless]

I've been monitoring this thread for a while now, and I'm glad to hear the frog's doing better. Keep up the good work!

If something like this happened to a frog I gave someone as a present, you have no idea how angry I'd be. I've always put the needs of my frogs before my own.

I really wouldn't suggest giving the frog back to your boyfriend if he is unable to care for her properly and is not devoted to her. No matter how much he may beg, if he lets a frog get this sick and does that little about it, he should not be caring for one. I hate to be brutally honest, but in situations like this I must.

[Psychotic]

She will be at my house for quite a while. Probably will never go back.

The thing is he has a basement and I don't. We rescued a bunch of green frogs from a cistern on my property this past fall/winter. The ground was already frozen and we had snow so we took them and set them up in his basement (I didn't have room in my house). I go over to his house once a week and clean their tanks and change the water. He feeds them. He buys crickets and I give him roaches. They are well cared for and will be released back into my pond very soon once the weather warms up for a little while. So far it only warms up a little for a day or so and then goes back to freezing and snow. Not enough for the ground to thaw or anything.

Lilly, along with Kermit and the baby are the pet bullfrogs. I didn't clean their tanks as they are supposed to be his pets. He is supposed to take care of them. Lilly was housed in the same tank as the other two. However only Lilly appeared to be sick when I went over to visit Monday. That may be because she spends about 98% of her time in the water. The others spend way more time on land. They aren't as shy and do not hide like Lilly.
The week before, she didn't look any different than she normally did. She may have been bloated though. After the bloat went down in my care you can see how skinny she really is.

When I found her sick on Monday, I made my boyfriend help me clean their tank. Totally scrub it out. I told him to keep an eye on the other frogs. So far they haven't gone down hill like Lilly and still eat. I believe he knows he was wrong in not taking better care of them. He seems to be worried about her and is happy she didn't die.

As long as he is working 12 hour night shifts (10pm -10am) I'm probably going to have to take care of his pets too.

[CJ PELCHER]

I love success stories... and honestly..you deserve so much credit for everything you put in.. KUDOS to you!!! VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!

[Psychotic]

Tonight is the first warm night we have had this year. I went out looking for toads. They should be coming out this month. Anyway, I didn't see any toads. But I did see hundreds of earth worms! I caught a few small ones and chopped them up for Lilly. She went into a feeding frenzy. She just ate 3 good sized roaches last night. I guess worms must taste good. She kept trying to eat her own hand too!