Will the frog be okay?

[Kevin1]

Sounds pretty typical of a petsmart employee.

[ArchGrammarian]

froggiez: I certainly will keep everyone updated via this thread. I'm going back there tomorrow evening to check up on the frog. I really hope to be able to take the poor critter away from there.

John911: I would think the physics between a human being suffering blunt trauma due to vehicular impact and a frog falling from a relative height would be somewhat different. Newton's second law dictates that force is a product of an object's mass multiplied by its acceleration (in this case, due to gravity). Smaller critters, I would think, could fall from relatively higher places and suffer less attrition due to possessing little mass.

Kevin1: I try not to be so cynical when it comes to individual workers, but the moment this girl took the frog out and held it as described, I wanted to correct her posthaste. I feel so awful for not doing more to prevent the situation from happening and I just can't get the image of that frog upside-down on the tile out of my head...

[Kevin1]

John911: I would think the physics between a human being suffering blunt trauma due to vehicular impact and a frog falling from a relative height would be somewhat different. Newton's second law dictates that force is a product of an object's mass multiplied by its acceleration (in this case, due to gravity). Smaller critters, I would think, could fall from relatively higher places and suffer less attrition due to possessing little mass.

This is exactly right. I think the odds are good that the frog will recover. Try not to beat yourself up too much over it. It's not your fault friend. It's their job to know what they're doing, their bad.

[ArchGrammarian]

Thanks for the encouragement, Kevin1. I can't help but feel bad, however. I guess I'm officially becoming a full-blown herper

[ArchGrammarian]

Good news, everyone: the frog appears to be okay! What's more, I've purchased the critter, bought it all of the necessities for its own living quarters, and, come Sunday evening, it will be beside Birdo in my dorm room (although in a separate terrarium-- I know not to mix ceratophryds).

Below is a rather low-quality photo of the little guy. My girlfriend took some fantastic photos with her digital camera, but I have no way of porting them on this computer [angry face].

As for the name, I think I'll go with "Blunder." It complements "Birdo" and highlights the surrounding circumstances that made my purchasing him almost an ethical obligation