Quote Originally Posted by Squirp View Post
I was trying to be respectful of their privacy, but on two separate occasions I caught them doing stuff.
I tried to educate them of the dangers of sex, by reenacting some of my favorite health class video's with frog puppets.
I managed to scare them away from it after drawing crude images of painful complications, and it worked until recently, you see, I sculpted an interesting landscape the other day to keep them entertained, and I think it must have sparked the mood for this one guy cause I caught this frilled up ally toad flopped right on top of my prized baby squirp this morning. WHO let me remind you, is being rehabilitated from crippling mobility after surviving starvation. I mean, honestly this has to be against the law, she's disabled, and underage. I've about had enough of this kinda stuff. Sure I turned a blind eye to the cannibal cricket matches, and illegal gambling on the centipede races, and even that disturbing thing that happened to Nina in the fourth breath of fire, BUT the rape of a world renown icon, Squirp, is just not good publicity for the species as a whole. I tell you what, I sat down for about 8 hours today, writing up my own rendition of stories of consequence loosely based on reality for those toads, and then I'm going to teach them about a form of treatment they will receive if they live a life making bad choices. This may include punishments more severe then being grounded. I'm talking manual labor, hard time with rude guards and ruder inmates, much bigger versions of those bugs they've been snacking on. but if this is more of a medical/mental rehabilitation I'll offer the best psychiatric care I can provide, it's going to cost a lot more tax dollars to hire a staff to manage a healthcare system that has the ambition to make people healthy and doesn't have the ambition to make a profit. you guys see this problem I'm dealing with? I like these toads and everything, but if they can't get along, I'm going to have to relocate them, but that doesn't solve the problem, just another opportunity to make more scars that never heal. when will the suffering end? when will toad society surpass our civilization and its discontent?
Squirp,
You are very clever ! BUT, I really don't think any of your ideas are going to work. I think you could threaten even worse, harsh, terrible punishments ( like making them climb ---really high even a desert environment or living in a waste land ) and they will JUST ignore you. It's a total breakdown in the environment. There is total loss of control of the only human parental unit they have ever had !!! Soon they will be doing it in public. What a mess!!!! My advice , put a roll of duct tape in their view next to a tank housing a big bull frog !!!!. Maybe that would establish a little self control. I have 6 tree frogs. I'm so afraid something like this could happen. I noticed mine starting to stay up late and lurking around each other. Is that how it started for you ? You might gather as much information about the situation as possible and consider sending it to a third party?
Good luck, Lynn