WE CAUGHT A FROG!!! How do we keep it alive??

[yoshimi]

Crystal, thanks for getting a follow up even if it was bad news.

I think the responses here were polite and appropriate. Urgent 'rescues' a possible exception, no one should go into pet ownership on a whim. In between the suggestions to release the frog there was plenty of advice on how to care for it, which was hopefully heeded to make it's last days were as comfortable as possible. At least until the unfortunate incident you've been hinting at.

I do hope the experience has increased their appreciation for nature and the potentially bad outcomes of taking in animals you aren't prepared to care for.

In my PM I did say that to her, that there was a lot of really good important advice in there. But sometimes the "let it go!" chorus (however right it was) when you don't want to, can turn you off of listening at all. I wrote because that was what I worried had happened. Can't say whether that was the case. Can't say whether anyone learned anything (besides me). I know through pics exactly what Turtle's fate was. It's exactly, if not worse than, what you all were afraid would happen if she didn't let him go.

Sorry guys, I forgot one of the good ones...