Gingerbread. Impaction survivor.

[GrifTheGreat]

You will need a small syringe without a needle, a 10 mL syringe will do fine.
Warm the mineral oil to 80°F.
You'll have to restrain gingerbread so the best way to do it is to wrap him in a small hand towel or paper towel while you hold him.

Fill the syringe with 5 mL of mineral oil and just push the end of this syringe in the edge of gingerbreads mouth and slowly inject the mineral oil.

Be careful not to push into much too quickly or you could choke him.

good luck!

Lol! Louis you can't just press the syringe under the frog's lips and expect the oil to go in. The mouth will have to be pried open and the oil will need to be squirted into the frog's mouth. Mineral oil tastes bad so expect Gingerbread to give you the death look.

Use a plastic spoon flipped upsidedown to pry the mouth open. If the frog is small aquire a appropriately sized spoon to perform this. Most vets use a special syringe to bypass the mouth and inject directly into the frog's stomach so the frog does not try to spit the oil out.


Good luck Dan

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Mineral oil tastes bad so expect Gingerbread to give you the death look.

Yep that is the look I got from a american bull frog the last time I did that when it swallowed a few small pieces of smooth gravel.
I friend of mine that is a chiropractor X-rayed the frog for me.
This was many years ago when I lived in Aiken SC and the only vet in town was a livestock vet. And laughed at me when I called him about the frog.
He said to just put it in a bag of water in the freezer and put it out of its misery.

This frog was at a local school and was a loved class pet. So I treated it with the above procedure and a day later out came the two culprits.
and the next x-ray was clear and he was back to his normal self but his bowel was pretty loose for a few days afterwards.

And I now remember the first dose was spat out along with his entire tongue.
So the next dose had to be administered by holding his mouth closed until he swallowed.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Oh and my local vet said that cat laxative or hair ball remedy that is mostly meat flavored petroleum jelly would also work.