Cairns Frog Hospital’s founding president Deborah Pergolotti said the frog had made an excellent recovery and should be on his way back to Mount Isa at the end of the week. 

“We’re just need to verify arrangements with Dogtainers, so every hurdle that we had to jump to get him here we now have to do in reverse,” Ms Pergolotti said. 

She said the frog had almost returned to complete health after facing near death. 

“He’s doing great, he’s picked up a lot of weight and he’s eating well,” she said. 

“He has some permanent eye damage from where the blade hit his eye. 

“His entire iris and pupil had rolled forward in his eye, so he couldn’t see anything but blackness,” Ms Pergolotti said. 

She said medics at the hospital had confirmed he now has sight in that eye. 

“His eye has now rolled to the point where it’s almost normal. 

“He has caught some bugs on that side of his body, so we know that he has vision in that eye,” she said. 

Ms Pergolotti said there was a chance his eye could completely heal over in time. 

When the frog was admitted to the Cairns Frog Hospital for lacerations to the face and body, medics had to dissolve the frog’s skin to repair it. 

They also found a nematode worm living inside the frog, which is what drove him onto the grass in the middle of the day. 

He has since been treated for the infection, and appears to have completely recovered from the parasite. 

Ms Pergolotti said the frog had lost a sizable amount of tissue near the laceration to his face. 

“You can’t tell that he had a wound by looking at his skin, but you can tell by the lost tissue, which makes him look a little misshapen,” she said. 

The frog will be returned to the garden that he came from when he makes his way back to Mount Isa at the end of the week.