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.