Grey tree frog (hyla versicolor) injured?

[Bynny Ribbit]

Poor little guy. Considering cat paws can have a lot of bacteria on them, I would seek something which can clean his wounds right away.

Do you by chance wear contacts? I've read of people having luck using a contact solution to help wounds heal and prevent infection. Maybe getting a cotton swab and dabbing it on the lid will help clean it. If you have any Neosporin without painkiller in it, you can also use this on his wound to help it heal. All else fails, if you have any non-iodized salt (it will say on the packaging if it does or doesn't), you can make a weak saline solution with warm, treated water and dab/drip some on there. Unfortunately, I don't have a water/salt ratio I can recommend, but to give you an idea, contact solution isn't even 1%, so you only need very little.

Seeing a vet would be best, it will likely be difficult to determine if there are internal injuries. To prevent possible infection, I would completely clean his tank and leave it pretty spartan; paper towels laid on the bottom, his water dish, and one or two things he can hide in or around.

[Hitch211930]

Well the closest vet that would treat him is closed till atleast tomorrow. I actually don't have any salt. So that won't work but I do have regular Neosporin. You think dabbing a tiny amount around his eyes would be okay? Other than giving him a warm spring water bath and keeping him clean, that's the most I can do for him right now.

[Bynny Ribbit]

Sorry for the delay, I've been busy. Hopefully you went ahead with the Neosporin and he's doing all right.

[Hitch211930]

Thats okay. Yes I did use the Neosporin he's seems to be doing all right for now just not moving a whole lot. I think he's just taking it easy.

[Bynny Ribbit]

That's good to hear. I'm sure he's still stressed from the ordeal and also in a little pain from the scratch, so him not being super active isn't too concerning as long as he's still eating and soaking.

[BossFrog]

Is he eating and moving properly? What do his eyes look like now?(cloudy? closed all the time?) An injury like that has a chance of causing blindness so keep an eye on him just in case!