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Originally Posted by hydra311

I SO wish I had found this site 3 yrs. ago! It would have saved me countless hours of worry and probably saved a couple thousand 'frog babies'. If anyone had told me 4-5 yrs. ago that I would be THIS involved with frogs (green anoles too, but they're a good bit more self sufficient) I would have said they were past crazy. It started so innocently. A metal tub and some water plants in 2012. I was not recording the day-to-day wildlife activities at this point but going by the last 2 yrs. it was probably

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I've come to realize that spadefoots all have very distinct personalities. I was reminded of this when dealing with the new colony. One of the female Plains spadefoots had not been acclimating well. She wouldn't eat, and was always burrowed. I know that moving to a new home can be a very difficult thing, so I try to leave them alone as much as possible when I get new toads. However, one day when checking on them I found her semi-burrowed next to the water dish, and she looked like a dead dried frog ...