Antoinetteandco
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I just rescued a handicapped banded bullfrog / chubby frog! Fern has a birth defect, one front foot is just a nub and the there's two toes further up the leg. Anyone else keep chubby frogs or handicapped reptiles?
Adoted A Banded Bullfrog !
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Antoinetteandco
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Of course! I have a blurry pic right now but later after She s more settled in I will message you a better one!
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Hard to see in that photo.
In the frog/toad dept. I only had a pair of waxy monkey tree frogs for a while...but they were so interesting.
I have had a few lizards that needed rescuing/help though.
There was a chameleon that had its foot cut off in a cage door accident. It did fine with only 3 feet.
Had a huge male iguana that wouldn't eat for its second owner....came to him in really good shape but wouldn't eat and was getting thin. It turned out that it would only accept food if it was hand fed. Never thought an animal would starve itself to death rather than eat on its own.
I couldn't save the water dragon with the cleft palate. I hoped to grow it big enough that it could have surgery...but it had too much trouble eating and did t make it.
In the frog/toad dept. I only had a pair of waxy monkey tree frogs for a while...but they were so interesting.
I have had a few lizards that needed rescuing/help though.
There was a chameleon that had its foot cut off in a cage door accident. It did fine with only 3 feet.
Had a huge male iguana that wouldn't eat for its second owner....came to him in really good shape but wouldn't eat and was getting thin. It turned out that it would only accept food if it was hand fed. Never thought an animal would starve itself to death rather than eat on its own.
I couldn't save the water dragon with the cleft palate. I hoped to grow it big enough that it could have surgery...but it had too much trouble eating and did t make it.
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Oh my gosh, that lazy iguana. ?
Antoinetteandco
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Sorry it took so long! She s still getting use to get her new life and I'm trying to not disrupt her sleep cycle! The deformed foot looks like a crows foot.
Awe I'm sorry about the water dragon they re one of my favorites!
It's amazing how resilient animals animals are most three legged animals do great. It's the people that have to get use to it.
I ve worked with a juvienalle red iguana before. It would only eat fresh veggies from that day. Until it wouldn't eat at all. I had to syringe feed it that nasty Zilla appetite stimulant and massage it s throat to convince it to swallow. I was always worried I d make it choke. The joys of working at a pet store ?.
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Btw so it's our right in the picture but anatomically her left
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You 're welcome! Fern s back legs are normal. Banded Bullfrogs mainly use their rear legs actually. They dig by backing into a tunnel, throwing dirt toward with their rear legs. She can hop forward just fine too. She s doing great like a normal frog. If anything she may get froggy arthritis on the nub leg.
The iguanas future is unknown. Honestly both times he sold I wasn't working.So the first family that bought him returned him after he wouldn't eat turns out they were keeping him in a ferret cage with reptile domes on top. Nice huh? And they didn't have a car so the walked him from the store all the way to their home and verse vice to return him. The second person that bought him after bought the store setup, a glass 20gal tank ? to keep him in and supposedly had iguana s before. I doubt it because, one the glass cage is wrong to the point of cruelty and two his toes were ripping off because his nails were getting caught on the terrium mat so he was on eco earth substrate which is also wrong husbandry. So yeah theres my petstore horror story. Ordering that iguana was my biggest mistake. I thought we ordered a baby which we would have been able to house properly but we got a juvenile which was already a foot in size .?
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Yes the second guy that bought the store display and said he had experience bought it and never returned it, which I hope is a good sign.
