Hi, I'm new here. I don't have a pet frog (yet), but I had a mystery that Google Image and Colorado's wildlife sites couldn't solve.

I saw this frog sitting in a parking lot puddle today. I was literally driving past it, slowed down for some geese, and saw it sitting in the puddle. It was near a pond, so seeing a frog wasn't TOO unusual, but still surprising. I'd visited that pond a lot as a kid and never seen one.

I touched it with my finger and it didn't move. I thought it was dead, so I poked it lightly with a twig and it finally twitched. I didn't really want to pick it up, but I wanted to get it out of traffic's way. But I couldn't get it to move at all. Not an inch. He didn't appear injured but he wasn't responsive. So I had to just leave it there, and he was probably squished.

His eyes were the weirdest red color. I assumed he was a bullfrog. My mom said it didn't look like any wild frog she'd ever seen. He was spotted on his belly and feet, and quite rough on his back.

I've since Googled pictures and I haven't found anything that matches his eye or skin color. His eyes were so red, and he had a really "mean" face. Not like the frogs and toads I've seen before. I feel certain he IS some kind of local species, and his eye color is just an odd variation, but my mom wonders if he was dumped from an aquarium and that's why his behavior was so odd. Who has heard of a frog that won't jump when nudged?

Anyway, any help you can give would be appreciated. I'm sure it's not that big of a mystery but I'll feel even worse if he was a clueless aquarium frog, spreading his germs into the pond.

It doesn't seem to want to load my photo from yfrog, so here's a link: http://yfrog.com/f/10txbzj/


Thanks so much! And I hope to hang around here ... I've always wanted a pet frog. Maybe I missed my chance today.