A Tree frog recovering after being air-lifted for life-saving treatment following lawn mowing accident
Ms Pergolotti said while the flight was kindly donated from an airline carrier, other parts of the frog’s journey were not as easy. “The frog even had to go through airport security, it had to be x-rayed,” she said. “It was an unbelievable process of getting out here to Cairns.” Ms Pergolotti said it was clear that the animal was already in distress. “The person who found the frog had accidently ran over it with their lawn mower, which means the frog was out during the daylight hours in the middle of the day, indicating that it was unwell,” she said. And Ms Pergolotti said by the time the frog arrived in Cairns, its condition continued to deteriorate with the wound getting infected.
“He had a lot of different, alternate treatments to make sure that we would minimise any possible bacterial involvement, and get rid of the bacteria that was already there,” she said. “It was a lot of intensive attention, special baths every day.” Despite the traumatic accident, Ms Pergolotti said the frog was on the road to recovery. “The wound has healed,” she said. “One eye has been permanently affected by the injury but otherwise he catches his food well, and he’s picked up weight. He’s done an incredible job and he’s a very lucky animal to have survived an accident of that type – usually there’s not much left when they get run over by something like that.” While airlifting a frog from Mount Isa to Cairns may seem like a big effort for a little animal, Ms Pergolotti said it was not the first time air transportation has been organised.
Australia has officially gone insane.
It’s a joke Right?
You’re shittin’ me, right?
No?It’s true?
That being the case I hope when that little one-eyed croaker gets back to Mount Isa, he is snapped up by a snake and eaten.
I would have stomped it. Put it out of it’s misery on the spot…. instead of costing thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars in Farking around.
“Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you amen!”
“Crack two!”
That’s bass bait in a sane world.
Yeah, check this out….woman buys lobster for 30 bucks and spends more then 2 Benjamins to release it in the wilds of Nova Scotia….I’d have just gone for the drawn butter remedy…https://youtu.be/euAivUkv-64
Taste like chicken.
I don’t know. That frog is better than most mexicans.
Wait until the frog gets the bill. He’ll croak. Pow!
Moetom, like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxFfxTZA6ao .
I love how the Dad laughs at the irony of nursing the critter only to be swooped up as a meal immediately.
Thought they were saving a cute bunny, but were just preparing a meal for the Hawk.
Who let him use the lawnmower without wearing the proper safety equipment?
THIS is what makes a society great! This and abortion, but mostly this.
Looks like Liberal Larry’s feminine persona has showed up.
Dadof4. Great vid. I’ve seen that on the golf course so many times. We have resident red-tail hawks. What a sight to see one swoop down and snap up a squirrel two fairways away.
Just feed it some screamapillars – it’ll be fine. 🙄
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWTDbfZHQo