Yesterday, my daughter brought me an american toad that was either injured or never formed correctly. He was missing part of a back leg and a foot off the other. Everything appeared healed, he was about 2 inches long and very fat. She wanted me to keep it because of the deformity, she was very worried about it. I told her that because it was already fat and healthy, we should leave it where she found it. Now I know with the deformity, it's more likely to become prey to something, but I feel like that's just kind of the circle of life. We get hundreds and hundreds of toads in our yard, so it's not as if we're lacking in them here.

What would you do in that situation?

If he had open wounds, I would have taken him in and kept him in our critter keeper until he was healed and then eventually rehome him (by the time he was healthy enough for release, it would be winter.) Being that he was healed and fat, I thought it best to let him be.