It has been MONTHS since my western hognose ate. He used to eat a just-weaned ASF weekly and then in late January he stopped eating. He would go a few weeks and then he would eat one rat. Last time he ate was in April. He started losing weight so we took him to the vet. The vet gave him something to "improve his appetite" and it didn't work. He still didn't eat. The vet did say he is in perfect health still so we didn't worry much. Just kept offering rats weekly.

Well, my husband decided he has gone on too long without a feed, so he went outside and got a small frog. Zeke chomped on that frog in no-time flat we didn't realize he already ate the thing! It was a smallish frog. So, my husband went out and got a bigger frog - about the same size as the rat. And Zeke chomped on that too!

Now, I'm getting worried that might not have been a good thing for us to do. I mean, a wild frog may be full of diseases/parasites/what-have-you. I mean, it is easy enough to find a frog outside for him to eat but I don't know of any frog feeders being sold in our reptile store.

Any advice?