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Re: Stressed/nervous frogs.
HAMSTERS??? Unfreakinbelievable... of course I think California banned Gerbils down in the states, didn't they?? O_o That's nuts though! Here all these frogs (and other species of animals) are disappearing world wide and they want to do something so stupid, *shakes head*Originally Posted by Lija
Lisa, idiots from fish and wildlife decided just because these frogs are called poisonous they should be banned. No consults with scientific community, no warning, no nothing, they send 45 days notice. There is not a single reported case of being poisoned by anyone other then phyllobates, that they baned long ago. They do excrete poison', that may cause some reaction to humans, but only in a wild, after 3-6 months in captivity they are losing it completely. Cb poses absolutely no danger to anyone, unless may be you can choke if you eat it.... So dont eat frogs, dk t stick them in your nose and you should be just fine lol
they are about to euthanize thousands of endagered or critically endangered frogs taken from people's homes.
Its just a beggining, their colleagues from ontario were about to ban all snakes over 50cm and hamsters....... Im not kidding... Yes you are reading it correctly.... Hamsters, ball pythons, corn snakes, etc and only because of people supporting the cause it was no go and people are still making fun of them.
They better focus on creating jobs, support communities and helping people who need it.
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p.s. Sorry for off topicon a topic though... It's hard to miss lungworms ( Strongyloides), they are very typical looking. So if they are diagnosed, most likely that's true. Why frogs were not treated immediately is not exactly understandable. most protozoa are commensal and very rarely require treatment,of course if they are causing problems or are in excessive amounts then yes, you should treat, but that doesnt sound like was a case.
Ok, so Strongyloides are Lung worms? And Strongyles are gastrointestinal worms? Because if that's the case then Lucy and Martha have Lung worms too, as I was told they tested positive for StrongyloidesI've put off treating them because I had to wait for the Ivermectin to be compounded to an oral suspension, then I got sick and didn't want to try force feeding them the med while I was feeling like crud and shaky... they are both off their feed, Lucy more so than Martha, should I just try and get some help and not wait longer to medicate them...? Guh, so much parasite sorting to do! I grabbed a fresh sample right out of Lucy the other day and got it on a slide under a microscope a lab tech friend of my dad's loaned him... LOADED! It was just a fresh smear, damp soft poo, no saline used... I looked first under 10x objective and then 20x... it was like a traffic rush of teeny tiny itty bitty things swimming around that I couldn't tell what the heck they were, saw one stationary ova of some kind (need a chart of frog specific parasites) and I saw some clear thin walled oblong shaped things oozing around (I couldn't tell if anything was inside these things) but then there was this bigger rounder blob which had stuff inside it, and it also was oozing it's way around and squeezing in and out of the sections on the slide separated by air bubbles or fecal matter. I was floored! I seriously need to get my hands on a fecalizer kit so I can do a float and look for eggs & oocysts and so on. Fascinating, but scary too, not knowing what is what and what is bad and what is ok-- I want a microscope with a camera so I can get pics and vids of these things!
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I bet those damn little bitty boogers are giardia maybe... Lucy apparently tested positive for antibodies of giardia but they didn't see any on the fecal exam. HOWEVER this was like less than a minute from out of the frog to the slide, so a turbo poo test! Everything all nice and juicy and alive-- yeesh! Ok, well I'm willing to bet those oblong clear blobs ARE the Lung worms then, since she tested positive for strongyloides. As for the other stuff, no one said she had anything else she needed to be treated for, so who knows. Ivermectin should clear most stuff up though, right? Now, will the Ivermectin work on giardia though or should I medicate her separately with the Metro or Panacur instead? I've been trying to cram so much info I think it's leaking out of my ears... I do think I read that Panacur works well to get rid of giardia though. 
I'm going to see if my dad can help me medicate the girls, if he's going to just freak out on me over it I'd best wait though. I don't want a frog getting squeezed or having an eye poked out, flexible catheter or not! 
