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Peppermint Gone. Hello Noel!

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Peppermint the ornate horned frog aka a Pacman, I bought about 6 days ago. Unfortunately, Peppermint wouldn't eat, was becoming overly skinny and so I had to bring it to the place I got him and do an exchange which was hard to do.

I didn't want to give up on Peppermint, tried everything I could from raising temperature, humidity and so on with no good results. I should have insisted on seeing the frog eat to ensure it was active enough. So two days ago on the 2nd I brought Peppermint back and agreed to allow them 2 days to improve the situation. Sadly Peppermint was still refusing to eat and was not acting as a healthy frog should. I feared if I brought Peppermint home it would cause further stress on an animal that is already stressed out and ill. I couldn't do that to Peppermint.

So with little choice I took the option to exchange for a different frog. This one being albino and about the same size as Peppermint, perhaps a touch larger. This one had a great deal of attitude to it. The first time he had shown me the frog on Friday he had just uncovered it and the frog promptly tried to bite his finger, missed but still tried. Today we arrived in time to watch the feeding and the albino was super fast at flicking its tongue to grab the food it so desired. Even being nudged caused it to go into a more aggressive stance than I'd thought it could. The frog has attitude and a large pair of metaphorical balls.

When switched into the carrier this albino decided it wanted to eat my fingers, face and anything else that got too close to it. It lunged at me several times and anything that moved. I was pleased. This is a frog that is worth having around, one that matches me, takes no guff from anyone and is willing to do what it takes. So, being that it's Christmas coming up and the theme of naming is along those lines I started to think of naming. The man who sold me the frog told me as he looked at the albino that he believes it's a girl. I still went with a more neutral name just in case, Noel.
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