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Frog hit by lawn mower flown to Cairns hospital for life-saving treatment
MSN News ^ | June 11, 2016 | Rebecca Lynch

Posted on 06/11/2016 5:42:14 AM PDT by LucyT

A frog hit by a lawn mower in Mount Isa owes its life to animal lovers who worked to fly it across Queensland for life-saving treatment at a special Cairns frog hospital.

The common green frog was run over in April by a woman who was "very distraught", FrogSafe president Deborah Pergolotti told 9NEWS.

The frog suffered a "deep gash" to his back and the woman called a relative for help, who in turn contacted FrogSafe's Cairns Frog Hospital.

The group then coordinated a rescue effort, enlisting the help of a regional airline and an animal transport company to fly the frog to Cairns.

"We were able to get on the flight on Monday (April 18), and by this stage he had gotten infected,"

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: australia; rehab; veterinarian
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To: HomerBohn

You kiss it first, OK?


21 posted on 06/11/2016 6:08:22 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Putting some in my Fry-Daddy tonight!


22 posted on 06/11/2016 6:09:19 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: LucyT

I would bet $1000 that every one of these loons is pro-abortion.


23 posted on 06/11/2016 6:10:03 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: eCSMaster

Virtue Signaling has become their new national sport. Sickeningly PC down there.


24 posted on 06/11/2016 6:10:29 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: LucyT

No doubt she thought it was surely that prince she has been waiting for.


25 posted on 06/11/2016 6:11:05 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: LucyT

I saved a frog from being eaten by a snake once but that is about the most I can do.


26 posted on 06/11/2016 6:14:43 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: LucyT

I spent 5 weeks in Oz 6 months ago, they are a very happy well fed, fun bunch of people, the product of a successful capitalistic socialist policy, but i say that with criticism as i see the nation itself as a huge flock of contented sheep.

They won’t band up nor organize in protest like in the USA, if they did they might lose the benefits, the high paying jobs, the excellant food and wine.

I would love to live there but i would be the outcast, critical of all things being too nice, too easy, too calm and peaceful, unarmed and unprepared to handle a calamity, an invasion or crisis. But Aussies are better at making do with less than i’ve seen in the US, America has far more stuff thats cheaper, in Oz its less, its smaller, its more expensive. And if its not good for the people its highly taxed.


27 posted on 06/11/2016 6:16:24 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey
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To: stars & stripes forever
They're all out there......Where my nephew lives, there are thousands of fireflies at night during their regular season but none around my house.

A friend who lives in northern Michigan has blue birds all over the place but I've only seen one here in S.E. Michigan.

I haven't seen an oriole in over 40 years until a week and a half ago when I decided to purchase an oriole feeder for my back deck. Now I have one coming to it all day long.......

I haven't seen a monarch butterfly yet this season but yet a friend of mine's wife already has 5 monarch caterpiller eggs, 6 good sized black swallowtail caterpillars and 2 American painted lady caterpillars in the butterfly cage I built for her last year. They were all harvested in her small backyard from the various plants she specifically planted for the respective species.....

28 posted on 06/11/2016 6:17:18 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My only regret in life is being too young to get to know my grandfathers before they died)
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To: LucyT

Although the gash was bad, the most complicated part of the treatment was removing the hand from his backside. They never did find his little banjo.

29 posted on 06/11/2016 6:17:54 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: LucyT

I killed a frog the other day....

Before I shock my pool I check for them....

Must have not seen it....found it floating in the skimmer....

I had about one nanosecond of remorse and tossed the poor guy out in the yard....

Yeah, I know I’m a heartless SOB for not having a full frog funeral with a solemn reading from a Kermit the Frog book...

Not sure I can live with myself, but I will somehow manage...


30 posted on 06/11/2016 6:19:04 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone..)
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To: Mercat
We even have a sign telling them that we’re a Monarch Way Station but my brother pointed out that it’s in English and since they’re from Mexico they probably don’t understand it.

LOL! as a side note, see my last post #28

31 posted on 06/11/2016 6:20:10 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My only regret in life is being too young to get to know my grandfathers before they died)
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To: cyclotic

Why? Just...Why?

Injured frogs are fish bait. Mainly because they are easier to catch in the first place.

It’s not like frogs have a high degree of personality.

Even Kermit.


32 posted on 06/11/2016 6:20:30 AM PDT by alloysteel (Of course you will live in interesting times, Nobody has a choice, now.)
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To: LucyT

Bass bait. I often impale things like frogs minnows crabs etc upon hooks. When done I chuck them overboard if still alive. No stitches, butterflies or bandaids.

I do, do surgery on the fish caught, though. I practice fillet and release.


33 posted on 06/11/2016 6:20:34 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: LucyT

S

THE DEATH OF A TOAD

A toad the power mower caught,
Chewed and clipped of a leg, with a hobbling hop has got
To the garden verge, and sanctuaried him
Under the cineraria leaves, in the shade
Of the ashen and heartshaped leaves, in a dim,
Low, and a final glade.

The rare original heartsblood goes,
Spends in the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings, flows
In the gutters of the banked and staring eyes. He lies
As still as if he would return to stone,
And soundlessly attending, dies
Toward some deep monotone,


34 posted on 06/11/2016 6:20:50 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: LucyT
We did something *almost* as dumb. Found a painted turtle that a car had hit, smashed shell in several places. Took him home; aunt pediatrician, sanitized the wound; diagnosis obviously above her pay-grade. Found a vet who specialized in reptiles. LSS, brought the turtle in, vet said he could *help*; we left the turt, got a call the next day from the vet to come and get him. $300 later, we took him home with an IV contraption the vet had made for a drip. FFw, turtle recovered and went off to live a *happy* [I hope]life in the swamp.

Dumb? Yes. Very. Would I do it again? Nope.


35 posted on 06/11/2016 6:21:48 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Jim Noble

By Richard Wilbur 1950.


36 posted on 06/11/2016 6:22:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: Popman

37 posted on 06/11/2016 6:25:22 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Frog Lives Matter. FLM

I am trademarking it.


38 posted on 06/11/2016 6:26:06 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: LucyT

Stupid friggin pagans.


39 posted on 06/11/2016 6:26:32 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Vaquero; JoeProBono

40 posted on 06/11/2016 6:26:47 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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