Please help! My frog lost its front feet??!?!?!?

Question

i have an african dwarf frog and i was looking in he tank and his front feet are like gone!!!! what happened? is this normal? please help

Answer 1

E-mail me:

1)How Old is the frog?

2)When did you notice this?

3)DO you have a picture, if so attach,

4)DO you move him around, and hold him alot??

My husband is a vet, he has LOTS of experiance, I can help you.

THanks, Hurry.

Answer 2

that is very weird, but if there is another frog in the tank, that is the cause. amphibians can be caniballistic and will attack each other. separate the two frogs or the one frog could be the others dinner

Answer 3

Limb regeneration in amphibians varies greatly from species to species. Some salamanders can regrow legs, eyes, jaws, tails, etc. while others can kind of regrow tails. Lots of frog species can regnerate limbs while they are tadpoles and others species can regrow toes into adulthood. I do not know off the top of my head if a foot can be regrown by an adult frog. A lot of research has been done on limb regneration of African Clawed Frogs but most of that was in tadpoles. In short, I don't know if the foot will grow back but I have my doubts. That being said, it should heal and assuming it will never need to evade predators again, it should survive just fine. It won't hurt to take it to a herp vet and have it checked out -- there is a pretty high risk of infection with injuries that serious.

Answer 4

oh that's really sad I'm sorry