The green tree frogs are back in the house after a long absence. I was so excited to see him on the back of the toilet door. Some of the fruit tasters needed re-assurance to visit the toilet - we had a few frogphobic people last week. He settled in well, going out at night to hunt and then returning with muddy feet and making footprints all over the toilet wall.
He was hanging out right on the edge of the open toilet door next to the hinges, and then the door closed. His eyeball got caught in the space and got squashed in the socket - it's still there, but it bulges a lot. It looks like you could just push it back in, and it would be OK, but Digby's sister is here - she's a vet - and she said the nerves would have been detached so the eye no longer works. So one eye looks like it is out on stalks watching things coming from behind.
So now we have a disabled frog. He seems fine - he still comes and goes - but I am worried about how his predatory skills have been damaged and wonder if he can catch enough food. At least we will be able to distinguish this frog from all the others.
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Hello Alison,
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting a comment to my blog. You have opened the first blog door to farming for me. I hadn't considered the tropics - more of a down south in the snow and ice type of guy, but I'll be watching your efforts to capture the farming community news up your way. Good on you, I hope you will post links to other farming blog efforts as you come across them
Regards
Leigh