#pink frog

(Have I been rewatching all the muppet films? … yes)

Felicia was about to turn 37 when her person reached out earlier this year. Once upon a time, Felicia looked like the happy pink frog on the right:

But over time, her thin fabric wore, and she lost filling, and developed tears, and accumulated not just memories, but dirt and dust from her hugs and adventures. Here are some of her diagnosis photos:

even her bow was bedraggled!

Her person wrote:

To me she's as beautiful, pink, and sparkly as the day I got her, but I think she'd be happier if her holes were patched up. Can you help?

Of course, the answer was yes. :-)

Felicia began her stay with a gentle spa. She had mostly normal stuffing, but walnut shells in her toes which I set aside to reinstall later.

Her person chose a nice white with pink polka dots for her new fabric bow:

She had surgery, with some patches and some stitches, and soon she was healthy and whole and ready to fly home:

(that patch will fade really well over time, but for now it's a well earned scar!)

Her person wrote:

Frog photos by Michael D Kern

Top: Dendrobates tinctorius (giant orange poison dart frog)

Middle: Dendrobates azureus (cobalt blue poison dart frog)