MOTW June 2015 - Elly

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I tried to raise a couple of toadpoles when I was a kid, but they didn't live. I used to gather all the small toads I could find, then release them.

American Green Tree frogs were around too, but it was pretty rare to see one. I'd never even seen a gray tree frog until 2013, when I saw three, one after the other. The last one was dehydrated and wandering through my aunt's house. I gave it some bottled water to soak in, then let it go. That was the one that made me finally decide to go get a White's.

There's a blog called Sticky Frogs that influenced me into getting one of those. After I learned that White's were tolerant of a wide temperature range and could be handled a bit I decided they were probably the best frog for me. (And after I got my first one I kept getting fooled into thinking he was probably dead when he was just sleeping. Yep. New frog owner stuff.)

There are still a lot of toads around my house (Woodhouse toads maybe). I like flicking insects to them sometimes. They almost act tame.