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    Hello, i found this toad in my well today and i noticed a deformity in his eye. It seems almost shrunken and no puple. He cant see out of it becuase he gets startled when i pick him up from that side and not the other, he walks off of tables and wanders aimlessly bumping into walls. il put a pic of his odd eye and the eye of my healthy toad
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    aww both of them are precious! I've encountered many an adult toad with eye deformities like that and he should do just fine in the wild so you can release him without worry.



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    I have a toad with an eye issue too! She is one of the wild ones that has been visiting me for the last 2 summers and I named her ROXIE. She came out of hibernation, looking all skinny but she plumped up nicely and then a month went by and I hadn't seen her. Well, 3 weeks ago she came into my garage and I noticed her left eye had a white, hardened lump, dead center of the pupil and under the cornea. She was also very skinny again, so I fed her some juicy nightcrawlers for a few nights and her belly was plumping up again. I took her to our local environmental center and they treated her for a couple weeks with antibiotics but when they released her back to me they told me it could be a cataract. IDK??? I didn't know they could form that quickly?? I also researched and another possible diagnosis could be corneal lipidosis, but that is more common with captive toads. Regardless, she cannot see out of that eye and I am worried about setting her free because she is obviously having difficulty catching prey. I've been keeping her in my garage and watching her movement/behavior when I toss in some worms. If they are at her right, she goes into stalk mode immediately, but if on the left... she just sits there! She's an old gal for the wild... I'm estimating 4-5 years old and I'd hate to take her out of the wild but afraid she won't make it on her own. What to do???
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    So i looked up this corneal lipidosis and it seems like its something differant. A friend of mine sent me a pic of another toad that he found that had the same problem. Ive kind of just ignored it because i feed her seperatly in a smallbin so she can catch the food easly. She only seems to go after it when its on her good side

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    that's interesting I've never seen something like that. Cathy can you post a pic of Roxie?



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    Im in the prosses of picking the minds of the people from that big salamander forum caudata i think is the name. If they tell me anything that we dont already know il let youguys know

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    If you have any idea of what this is or how I should treat it, I'd really appreciate it! It looks like it's on the outside of the cornea but it is definitely under the cornea. Thanks!
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