First frog with artificial leg

Brullie showing off his stitches - Image from Dailymail

There is hope for frogs who have broken their legs. Brullie the bullfrog from South Africa has become the first frog in the world to have an artificial leg bone. Anne Mearns adopted 25 year old Brullie after he was attacked by a dog near her home in Johannesburg.

The giant bullfrog had a shattered lower leg bone and Mearns could not bear to see her pet being lame. So she took him to the vet who was more used to cats and dogs but nevertheless operated on Brullie. He even operated for free! The vet had to insert a tiny steel rod over the snapped right leg bone and now weeks later Brullie has begun hopping around.

Brullie is part of a species that is fast dwindling and found only in a part of South Africa and Mearns, having worked on amphibian preservation for years, knows it. Good for Brullie that she found him.