New frog in the forum - meet Buddy!

[CaseyO]

Hi, my name is Casey, and my friend in my profile picture is called Little Buddy.


Buddy is a wild white lipped tree frog who I've had since 29th Dec, 2013. I'm hoping to release him as soon as possible but until then I shall be taking care of him.


I live in Tropical North Queensland, Australia, so a life amongst tree frogs (and the dreaded cane toad) is as much a part of life for us as it is taking the dog for a walk to the beach. Needless to say, accidents happen, as in Buddy's case.


In the early hours of the morning on the 29th, I was driving up my driveway when Buddy decided to make an appearance and jump across the driveway. I swerved to avoid him but unfortunately I felt a light thud through the cars frame, which could only mean one thing - I'd hit him.


I quickly looked for him to see if I had splattered him and found the stunned little bugger just sitting there, seemingly unharmed, or so I thought. Upon closer inspection I found I had popped his eye. What used to be his eyeball was now a hanging stringy mass of eyeball matter, that looked kind of like a plastic bag caught on a wire barb on a windy day. I could see the back of his entire eye socket...oh ****!


When I checked on him the next morning I had found that he had somehow reformed some sort of eyeball, which I think is awesome, but with me still being concerned for his survival I arranged for him to visit the vet, who gave him the all clear except for permanent blindness in his now little black marble of an eye. They asked me if I wanted to pick him up to release him or if I wanted him to be put to sleep. Naturally I said I would pick him up, because I have seen frogs with only one eye thriving in the the wild and so I wanted to give him a fighting chance and not an immediate death sentence for something he could survive. So I took him home and set up a temporary "Buddy Rehab Centre".


Since collecting Buddy, I have found this forum to be an invaluable wealth of information. So from the bottom of mine and Buddy's hearts...


...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!


Casey & Buddy
xxx