i read this, laughed at those pics, then looked in on my american toad and his pointy little butt was up in the air, all but one leg in food dish, going after the last of the few tiny crickets i managed to wrangle earlier. i was trying to get them into bowl then transfer into powder for a shake-up, but he got to most of them 1st. he's a hilarious and skilled little hunter. sadly, i'm not, and at least 2 are roaming around my kitchen somewhere right now, lost when i tried a different method to get some shaken up. hoping they'll wind up in the cat water or a cat's belly, sooner rather than later. i'm out of practice with crickets, prefer food that more or less stays put, but i think he enjoys the in-tank escapees. i've read that toads generally sit and wait for food to walk by, but he goes crawling after them. or if one wanders near his burrow, i hear the *snap* of the tongue from under plant. love the enthusiasm, but not the dirt he eats along with bug. :/
regardless of where the food is, my favorite thing is the way his little head whips around to stare at it when he 1st sees it. no neck, so it's ridiculously cute to watch. i'd imagine much less adorable for the bug. (i actually imagine this quite often. gruesome.)