Carl’s Miracle
Posted by Leslie on April 28th, 2008 | No Comments
Ok, I’m not trying to get sappy here, but every now and then something happens that’s worth mentioning. We have a variety of pets in the house. Most recently, a long-tailed lizard (Zoe) and three tree frogs. One of the frogs is called a “Dumpy Tree Frog” and the kids named him Carl. My daughter Abby likes to take both Zoe and Carl out to play with. But she’s always good about putting them back in their tank properly. Yesterday morning she went to check on the tank, and couldn’t find Carl. He just wasn’t in there. The screen top was on there, so how could he have gotten out? Abby found him about an hour later - downstairs in the family room! She immediately started spraying him with water (he needs to be damp) but his legs were stretched out and stiff and it looked like he wasn’t breathing. We all felt sad. No one knew how long he’d been out of the tank or how he’d gotten down to the other room. We decided to bury him in our yard. But as we waited for my son to get dressed, I thought I saw one of Carl’s eyes blink. But, no, he still wasn’t breathing. Then, a leg moved. Surely this was something post-mortem. I flipped him over onto his stomach and his eye blinked again. Could it be? Immediately I raced back upstairs and put him in the small pool of water in the tank. His other eye opened. His legs bent. By the time we returned home later that day, he looked perfectly normal. Eventually, he moved out of the water and back under the log where he likes to hide. One moment we thought we were burying him, the next minute he was rehydrating in his tank. Carl is alive! I guess little miracles do happen sometimes!
(Right - Carl swinging on a jump rope prior to his near-death experience.)
