Monday, November 9, 2009

A Frog Apart...

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I'm no judge of frog flesh, so I suppose I wouldn't know one way of the other.

But my sons assure me that this is Burt, a frog they rescued earlier in the summer.

They say that he is now living in the front yard, housed in our sprinkler valve box.
Except that they also tell me he is a toad, not a frog.

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They tell me they know this is Burt because he has some distinguishing characteristics.

Which is funny.

Because, to me, he looks very similar to the other two frogs toads living in the sprinkler valve box. But I don't have the depth of reptile relationship with him that the boys do. So I suppose I should just trust their identification process.

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And, besides, I want to be very supportive of Burt as an Octamom pet. Because any creature that lives in the sprinkler valve box and feeds itself and deals with its own litter box needs is a great Octamom pet candidate.

I'm all about self-sufficient, outside living pets.

Burt, you rock.



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13 comments:

  1. Yap same here frog toad reptile should be outdoor pet!!!

    WE do have 2 large dogs living with us but are outside most of the days and sleep inside our home at night (they are keeping us save from those weird people that live around here)

    I'm all for not having to clean litter!!!!
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  2. Sounds like the perfect pet! :)
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  3. I'm all for self-supportive, low- maintenance pets, so Burt would be a keeper. By te way.....I'm lovin' your son's green "avoid chores" tee. A few of my five must have read and memorized the same kind of tee.
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  4. Burt is very NICE! :D Love your ds's t-shirt! HAHA! "how to avoid chores" huh? :P
    CUTE!

    Blessings!
    Amy
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  5. We here at the Everyday Occasions home adore our amphibious friends...'cause they eat bugs. Frogs or toads I can handle, bugs I can't.

    I need one of those "how to avoid chores" shirts! I wonder what the Mom version would look like...?
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  6. He's kinda cool looking for a frog.
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  7. The perfect pet! Gotta love the self-sufficient ones :)
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  8. We had a "family" of toads living in our garden this summer. The kids found a squished toad in the driveway and swore it was the "mom" and that I must have run it over with the van. Oh the agony!
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  9. We have had another perspective on frog flesh recently...we really internalized our relationship with them.... http://chopstixplease.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/two-frogs-and-a-silkworm-an-interview/

    Hope your fall decor is coming along nicely!
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  10. Love, love, love your son's T-shirt. Where, oh where did you get it????

    Oh, and by the way, that frog/toad is really cute!!
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  11. Ok, funny. I sit here reading with my almost 6 yr old girl over my shoulder....she sees the pic "oh, there's a toad" Yes, she and I share your lack of ability to differentiate such creatures.

    And I totally hear you..how odd it is that the children say they 'know' this is 'the' particular creature that abides outdoors. The creature which has no collar or tag or other such device so as to let others know WHO he is. Yeah. Mine know lizards. Green Anoles to be precise. They have had several over the summer (er, years actually) here at the house, this house and our previous home, as well as the school where we meet for church. Yes. They 'have' and have named SEVERAL. And know every. single. one of them. They all look like lizards to me. But they know one from the other. Emma from Brite. Mary from Isaac. Amanda from Benny. And so on. Crazy.

    Some of ours aren't so 'self sufficient' though as they have been taken into the home. A pair at a time, the boys tend to them.

    I'm liking your Burt arrangement, personally.
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  12. Pleeeease don't tell your kids what we do with toads in Australia. Cricket, Golf, Football, all played with the same ball... a disgusting lump of introduced pest- a cane toad. They have also started making fertaliser out of them and once a year some places have a bounty on their head for a day or week or something. Every year they spread further south taking over the habitat of our native frogs... but I wont hold that againt Burt. In fact I wouldn't hold anything against Burt, I wouldn't go near him with a 10 foot pole... ICK!
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  13. Definitely my kind of pet.


    mama of 13
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