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    Unaware of what it looked like when White's shed their skin and scared to death that my frog was choking, I interrupted his shedding.

    He was in the middle of eating a piece of skin that was covered in the substrate I use to line his cage and thought that their may have been a piece of plastic or paper stuck in there that I did not remove when I first put it down and that he had accidently eaten it and was choking. I was so frightened I reached into the cage and pulled the skin out of his mouth! I feel so bad and am frightened that I have done something terrible. This is my first frog and I had looked up videos of them before but I had never seen this strange shedding behavior.

    Is this as terrible as I think? It's only been a few hours since the incident and I haven't noticed anything strange, I just want to know the effects of a frog's shedding being interrupted, if there are any at all.

    Someone please ease my mind. ><

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    I seen someone say theyd help thier frogs with an incomplete shed. Not like snakes where ur sopose2 leave it. Just robbed him of a free dinner. Mine left his skin in dish. Now that I worry bout. They're supose to eat it.

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    Many frogs will eat their shed, but others do not. I don't think any harm was done. Just remember, the shed skin is a good meal for the frog.
    Terry Gampper
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