New here looking for information on toad

[PacificTreeFrogLover]

it may not be the same toad, there might just be a lot living around your house and you just dont know it. but if it is the same toad... he must be really attached to his home!

[UncleChester]

It could be the same toad. I had one that kept turning up in a pile of firewood that I was stacking and splitting. I took the toad to the garden a couple hundred feet away a few times and it kept returning. They definitely have some homing abilities. Here's an article where they were displaced a couple hundred metres away and generally made their way back home JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie (only the front page available unless you have jstor access) and you can probably find many more articles on toad homing and certainly more on frog homing in general.

You'd want to take detailed photos of your toad to determine if it's the same one or not. Their spots and pattern are unique, but very complex and pretty much impossible to pick out unless you have a detailed record of it.

If you want to keep the toad out of your animals water bowls, make sure they are high enough with smooth sides and not near anything the toad can climb and it shouldn't be able to make it in.

[Mentat]

Hello and welcome to FF! Thanks for sharing your story, always enjoy a good one that portrays an animal extraordinary abilities. I'm thinking it's the same toad too and if it can map it's way home from 2 miles away it navigates better than many humans . Do understand your concerns with dogs and having one mess around wth toad is a possibility.

If thinking about adopting it; here is good article to read on it's requirements so you kow what are you getting into: Frog Forum - Toad Basics - Keeping ground-dwelling Toads. A care sheet for Bufo, Anaxyrus, Spea, Scaphiopus, Ollotis, Alytes, Pelobates . Another possibility is to ask around friends or post a thread in the for sale section and try to find toad a home in your area by offering up for adoption (pics always help).

If above not possible, have you tried filling up the hole under dogs house and somehow barring it so neither toad or rabbits can get in there again? Maybe that would deny the home it likes and make him search at other location away from dogs. Good luck !