I'd love to know what the outcome was here. I have a wild-caught toad and fought with myself til I was in pieces over whether to keep her. Then it was winter, and 5 months later, she's still here, an inch larger, and I'm in love. Different needs than a tree-frog, but I feel bad that this girl's words were thrown back at her. She was looking for help. And found the little guy in SC so she couldn't just toss him out the door.

An inch big, he could've eaten baby crickets. Of course, proper enclosure comes 1st. I figured that out pretty quick. Had fun and learned a lot setting up a decent home. Funny to find that a "free" wild-caught frog can cost a lot of time and money. The time goes to research, research, research. As quickly as you can cuz you've got a helpless little creature waiting. Banjo sat in an empty blank disc thingy, still wet from the rain, while I googled feverishly. Went out in the dark to get dirt and whatever I could find to make a temp home in a plastic drawer. Her home now is a 22.5 gallon. And toads are forgiving. If I'd scooped a tree frog up from the sidewalk, may have been a different story. A weird story. But I felt the same way as KimiBear before the snow came, setting her on the ground. So small and vulnerable. Now she's bigger and fatter but I still see my baby when I look at her.

I know, intellectually, that wild animals need to be left in the wild. 99.9% of the time, I follow that rule. I wouldn't pick another frog up and take it home, but if I went back in time, I'd probably do the exact same thing. Banjo was on the sidewalk when I abducted her, and sidewalks tend to be built next to streets... The next warm rainy night, I won't hop out of the car and grab some off the road, but I can look at her sitting in the food dish and KNOW, she will never be one of them.

If this girl's sister kept the frog, she was probably scared away from the forum, which I think is a shame, with all the info and experience available here. I didn't post until I had things under control. I didn't want to be picked on, I wanted information. I was getting enough of the "let it go" from my bf and the part of me that worries all the time. It was a race against cold weather to decide whether I could care for her. Didn't have the time to post about it! Stinks that in one day, this girl is here asking how to care for a frog caught on vacation, that she could feasibly get the supplies to care for, and then >poof< gone.