I have read in many articles that toads "do their business" in there water bowls, and the toad I had prior to my current one did, but this one won't.

It urinates and defecates on land, for an example, tonight, it hopped in it's water dish and soaked for roughly 2 or 3 minutes, then when I came back about 20-30 minutes later, I seen a huge wet spot on the rock where it must have urinated, and it normally defecates on the rock or sand.

Is this normal?

Also, is "loss and gain" of appetite normal, or is that just my perception of it? Again, "for an example", I normally feed it at 12:00pm (lunch). It will eat one or two grasshoppers (lightly dusted in calcium) normally. Yesterday, It would not eat at 12, but it decided to eat at 5:00pm. I left that day, and got back today at 7:00pm with (it's favourite) WORMS!

So, it hadn't eaten yet, I proceded to cut a worm in half (it loves worms!) and put it on the floor in front of it, and it acted comepletely dis-interested, I found this... shocking, seeing as how it loves worms. It just ignored it!

Could it be, the day before([yesterday] it's kind of confusing because I'm writing this at 1am, but when I refer to yesterday I mean monday and today was tuesday, but now it's wenesday ), when I fed it at 5:00pm (as previously stated) it ate a fairly large grass hopper, much larger than normal (it also ate a large wolf spider) that it was still "full", and this is the reason it was not interested in the worms?

I have had the toad for almost a month now, it's growing in "width" (getting fatter), but I don't notice it getting much larger, it is roughly an inch accross the back right now.

Will a growth spurt come!? I have seen some pretty huge american toads on this website, like I said, mines fat, but just, small.

Thanks

~Royce