Another Big Eye problem

[LilyPad]

Ok, live plants and a new cage isn't gonna get him eating again(I'm gonna try to get those as soon as possible). My frog is skinny and won't eat, he baraly cares to open his eyes when i pick him up. I'm not going to a vet because i'm not dishing out $120 i don't have and it would be easier to by awhole new cage and frogs with that kind of money.
Call me stubborn and newbish but that is the way it is with my parents and me.
All the vets in my area don't even know that much about exotics anyways, all the reviews are "my cat is so healthy or my dog is better now".

Don't get another one if that is your attitude towards pets

[BigEye]

Hey i wanted to bring my first one to the vet, not my decision.
My dad didn't want to spend that much on a $15 frog and i don't have vet money.
Probably should've just called and asked the petstore guy.
Well another one is probably gonna bite the dust.

[Tony]

Hey i wanted to bring my first one to the vet, not my decision.
My dad didn't want to spend that much on a $15 frog and i don't have vet money.
Probably should've just called and asked the petstore guy.
Well another one is probably gonna bite the dust.

Do yourself and the frogs a favor by not getting any more pets at least until you are old enough to get a job and be a responsible owner.

[LilyPad]

I am sympathetic to the fact that you're only 12. When I was 12, I had a cat, MY cat, and he had diabetes. Anyone who has gone through this knows how pricey it can be. There were a lot of medications and vet visits and they were my responsibility. I had a paper route, I babysat, I did an excessive amount of chores, I helped family members with yard work. I did everything that I could to cover his expenses, right down to the cost of having him euthanized when his quality of life declined to a point that he couldn't come back from.

After he passed, I knew that I didn't want to spend every spare minute working and doing chores to earn money for a sick animal. I didn't get anymore pets until I was 18 and capable of caring for them.

And just so you know, the cat was FREE, didn't even cost me $15.

I am sorry that you're losing your frog and can't afford to take care of it properly. My advice is to lay off the pets then for a while if your parents aren't willing to help you out and you can't afford to take care of it properly. It's unfair that frogs should suffer and die a drawn out death because of it.

[Baelari]

Just to be sure, are you treating the water you use, and not touching the frog?

[BigEye]

I am sympathetic to the fact that you're only 12. When I was 12, I had a cat, MY cat, and he had diabetes. Anyone who has gone through this knows how pricey it can be. There were a lot of medications and vet visits and they were my responsibility. I had a paper route, I babysat, I did an excessive amount of chores, I helped family members with yard work. I did everything that I could to cover his expenses, right down to the cost of having him euthanized when his quality of life declined to a point that he couldn't come back from.

After he passed, I knew that I didn't want to spend every spare minute working and doing chores to earn money for a sick animal. I didn't get anymore pets until I was 18 and capable of caring for them.

And just so you know, the cat was FREE, didn't even cost me $15.

I am sorry that you're losing your frog and can't afford to take care of it properly. My advice is to lay off the pets then for a while if your parents aren't willing to help you out and you can't afford to take care of it properly. It's unfair that frogs should suffer and die a drawn out death because of it.

I should just stick with tarantulas for a while.
But one last idea, could he be hibernating by instinct? He hasn't eaten in 2 weeks, doesn't open his eyes(maybe once or twice under warm water, and hasn't lost any weight in that 2 weeks.

[BigEye]

I'm also going to spend a chunk of july in Seattle doing road shows with my Dad.
up to $$$300

[artes]

Unless you have a scale to weigh him, you likely wouldn't notice if he was losing weight. Hard to see frogs that weigh only grams dropping... grams.

I am sympathetic, but I'm going to have to side with everybody else here - just don't get any more pets. Period. If you're not willing to spend money to vet them when they're sick, to get them proper set ups, and to make sure they actually have a proper quality of life, and if your parents aren't willing to help, then don't get them. Animals aren't disposable creatures. They're living beings with feelings that are relying on you to care for them.

I've spent over 1000$ on vet bills for one group of animals. One of them specifically cost 750$ by the time his vet bills were done. What type of animals were this group? Rats. The 750$ one quit breathing on his own late at night, so I rushed him to an animal ER and got him on oxygen. It turned out he had gotten pneumonia somehow. The ER visit was 500$ by itself. I have a cat that showed up abandoned in my yard who has cost me 1100$ in vet bills so far, and he's not even 2 years old yet (he has ulcerative colitis).

I am unemployed currently, and have been for a year (the company I was working for downsized, and I haven't been able to find anything else). Most of these vet bills went on credit cards that I'll probably be paying off until I die. But because I love my animals, and they are my responsibility, I took care of them.

So, I'm going to have to request you learn some responsibility and get some respect for life before buying another animal. This include tarantulas. Those are living creatures too.