Quote Originally Posted by Herpvet View Post
Yes amphibian pus (like reptile pus) is usually relatively solid, believed to be because the digestive enzymes in the white blood cells don't tend to break up/liquefy the pus . It's not impossible for an amphibian to have liquid pus, but it's generally bad news because it's the bacteria that's liquefying things, which means it's pretty nasty.

In your frog's case it's possible pus was coming out - if for example there as infection in the uterus pus could be expelled (the pus might include degenerate eggs in that case). If it came from the gut it's much less likely to be pus though. (Please note I'm using the term uterus for simplicity - there are different opinions over whether it can be used in a valid sense in amphibians, but it is used in many textbooks).

Hope this helps,

Bruce.
Thanks much for the info, Bruce!

Here's video I took right after this dump of stuff... I originally thought the white things were little bits of paper towel, then aborted eggs, now-- ??



She passed decreasing amounts of this stuff over the next few days. I started her on Metronidazole (which I had been treating them with for coccidiosis) because I knew it to be an antibiotic and I thought it might be a good idea to do so.