Meet Linus, the accidental Pacific chorus frog

[Molch]

Also known as 9-lives Linus.

Life 1: got accidentally shipped from Washington State to the Arctic (northern Alaska!) at the onset of winter, hidden in the kale in a box of organic veggies.

Life 2: lucked out to arrive in the house of a biologist, instead of one of the other 99.9% of Alaska residents who would have simply screeched hysterically and squashed him like a bug.

Life 3: almost got guillotined when said kale was chopped.

Life 4: almost embarked on a dark journey to the unknown when he narrowly escaped being flushed down the kitchen sink drain

Life 5: hopped out of the sink and unduly attracted the interest of 2 large dogs. Luckily, said dogs had never seen a frog before (this is northern Alaska...) and puzzled momentarily as to whether this starnge new insect should be consumed or not.

Life 6: arrived in Alaska after freeze-up when no more flying insects could be found. Refused earthworms and was starting to look very, very skinny when Mama's order of drosophila and crickets arrived.

Lives 7-9: well, I'd like to think he has a few of them left.

Below some pics of Linus (now 7/8th inch long, after voraciously taking on the crickets and fruit flies!) in his new home.

Of course, judging by his throat he is probably a girl, eh? But then, he's only 7/8th inch long. Would he be this year's hatchling?