During a casual horse ride at a family reunion, Clark spotted a horney toad (scientifically a "horned lizard"). He jumped off his horse and put him in his saddle bag. When we got back to camp, we showed the toad to Will and it was love at first sight.
Will named him "Frog and Toad" (after the Arnold Lobel book) and we looked up everything we needed to know about horney toads on the internet.
We fed him ants, put a rock and sand in his bowl, and took him outside during the day to get some sunshine.
To our surprise, after two weeks of loving our pet, he disappeared. We fed him 15 ants that morning and brought him out on the porch to sunbathe. When Clark got home at 4:30 he asked, "Where'd Frog and Toad go?" I said, "Oh he probably buried himself in the sand. He likes to do that." Clark looked at me and said, "No, I don't think that's the case." I quickly raked through his sand and Clark was right, he was gone. We are hoping he just hopped out and wasn't eaten by a bird or something sad like that. We told Will he wanted to go back to his home.
I don't know what happened, but he will be missed. Here's to you Frog and Toad, wherever you may be.
5 comments:
Oh what a cute story...ya know except the ending. We used to catch those and do take care of them when we were younger too. Reminds me of when I was way young. About Will's age! Little Will is such a cutie! Save your pennies!!
Sherilyn
Oh, poor Will! It is so cute that he took such good care of him and named him and everything. Will is so precious.
We loved seeing you guys!
Maria,
I just had to tell you...the other day we were at the harbor and there are totally couples that just go from harbor to harbor and sailing around. A few were docked for the night just BBQing off the back of their sail boats. It looks amamzing!!
Sherilyn
so sorry to hear about lost "frog and toad" pls give Will a hug and kiss from Grandpa Larry.
I love how Will named him Frog and Toad. That's SO darn cute! I'm sorry to hear he escaped after you guys worked so hard catching ants and everything. :) I hope Will's okay.
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