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Have a gray tree & not sure the age *adult older* ! Well, about a week agao it pooped out a balloon sack looking thing out of it's bottom. It looks like a dime sized balloon sack with blood vessels running through it. Well, a week ago I was able to help put it back up in the frog with a Q-tip. I have seen a vet do this once on our Bearded dragon. No vet here local that deals with frogs & the next nearest is about 2 hours away. Well, when I helped the frog a week ago it did fine after that. It had 1 poop after the fixing & I thought, oh good it would stay back up in. I have been feeding very little ( small crickets) & not so often the last week. This morning there was a nice huge poop (much bigger than normal) laying on the paper towel & I found the frog with this balloon hanging out again ! Tried to put back up in & it didn't work this time. What to do PLEASE ???? Frog is very active & still fast. She is kept only on paper towels. Has 1 water bowl in with her, 1 cork bark log, & 1 fake plant. Please some advice here.

Thanks,
Jennie

Pic of gray !

I don't know what that is,but you need to get your frog to the vet,call a local vet and see if they can recommend someone who's good with amphibians,maybe it's eggbound?if there's a vet hospital/ER around,call and see if they take amphibians,maybe it's bladder got impacted,blocking the whole butt area,so for the frog to poop,it had to express it's bladder?

I'm not a vet,but that looks seriouse

Don't know frogs can or not but that looks like a prolapsed rectum. It looks very much like a cat or dog when that happens.
I agree, you need to call a vet.

This is definitely a prolapse. The animal needs immediate medical attention.

Use bottled water and mix up some powdered sugar. 95 ml of water and 5ml of sugar should do it. Use a q-tip to drip the solution on the area sticking out. This will shrink up the tissue (remember the stuff about osmosis, hypertonic & hypotonic you learned in science class that you thought you'd never use?) and the tissue will usually return to the correct anatomical position. Keep the cage area as clean as possible and try some smaller food. How are the temps. & humidity in the cage?
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