yeah, you are probably right TJ... Well, he is in "sleeping" with my 3 year old daughter next to her bed. She really likes the little guy. But I think we are going to find a place to release it tomorrow. We have some horsetail reeds in a planter where he might be safe and have access to little bugs. The first two nights we had him, we put him outside at night to see if he would go away and maybe find his home, but he was right in the same place the next morning! I found an interesting article on PubMed about a cruel study they did in the 1960s with these same toads (Gulf Coast Toads) where they had 2 groups relocated 200+meters from where they were found. 1 group were blinded (eyes sewn shut!) and the other group had their olfactory senses taken away (so they couldnt smell). And the blinded group found their way back, but the group with no sense of smell couldn't find their way back... so I wonder if my toad has problems beyond just his blindness... Anyways, I think you are right TJ. He doesn't need to live in a cage for his short sweet life...