Little Toad

[muddy]

Yesterday I found a little toad  swimming for its life in a bucket of rain water .
How it got in there is a mystery but it couldn't get out .
I rescued it 
Haven't see a toad for years .

[klondike]

Can't say I have either. Saw plenty of frogs and toads as a child. I think children are attracted to the sorts of places they live

[Scrumpy]

Awww!!! Poor little thing..
I'm scared of frogs and toads.. I always have been.. Goes back to my childhood..
But... I would have rescued it.. I can't bear creatures struggling..

[Mups]

Yesterday I found a little toad  swimming for its life in a bucket of rain water .
How it got in there is a mystery but it couldn't get out .
I rescued it
Haven't see a toad for years .

I can only think that perhaps a bird had taken it, but dropped it again,   possibly because of the toads awful skin.

 A few years ago I believe I wrote about my dear old elderly Bedlington picking a toad in the garden up one night,  and its skin had a horrific effect on her almost instantly. 
 She looked like a rabid dog.  Mouth frothing and foaming,  eyes dilated like a mad animal,    really frightened me and I had to call the vet about midnight for advice!

[Dextrous63]

Amphibians can be surprisingly dangerous.  I recall David Attenborough talking about this little beauty on Life on Earth (iirc, but he's done so many programs)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_poison_frog

[morty]

It works both ways too ... it's dangerous for the crinkly skin too. We have loads of chemicals on us that can irritate them if we handle them.

I'm just glad I've never unwittingly bought a hitch hiking tree frog in a bunch of supermarket bananas.