not easy to take care of. They eat a lot. Sometimes they eat so much that they get real fat.
They are sloppy. You have to clean their cage a lot. Yes, in some ways they remind me of having a husband.
If you go out of town for a few days, you have to get a frog-sitter. Sometimes they out-grow the bug diet and you have to feed them mice. You probably would never find a sitter that would be
willing to feed mice to a frog, even if you paid them.
Besides I read that in a few thousand years, frogs may be extinct, and some of the blame goes to
people that buy frogs to keep as pets. Why? I don't know.
My daughter in rural Florida has a pond with many little tree frogs living in it. Her cats try to bring them into the house as playmates. But sometimes they escape the cats and lose their lives by getting in the way of a shutting door. I ran over a frog with my lawnmower once. I felt
like a murderer.
I don't think I want a frog, after all.
Yes, any pet is much like having a husband. You have to train them right away, and reinforcement is critical. At least with a frog, you can keep them on their diet, and confine them to one area.
ReplyDeleteIn defense of husbands, I have to tell a related story.
ReplyDeleteAs a child, my son regularly visited each of the window wells around our house looking for anything interesting. One day he found a salamander and wanted to keep it as a pet. So I bought a glass box and we filled it with dirt, rocks and plantings. We did some research and learned it was a Tiger salamander and that we needed to feed it live crickets. We spent a lot of money on crickets to keep "Newt" happy.
One day my little boy finds a frog in the window well and puts it in the terrarium with the salamander. The idea was to give Newt a companion, a soul mate, if you will.
Well, everything went along fine until one day we came home to find the frog half way down the throat of the salamander! We rescued the frog and set him free at that moment realizing what a terrible mistake we had made.
I don't know why this happened exactly, but I surmise that Newt thought the frog was eating too many crickets, and was not very neat.
Sometimes it's hard being a frog, and, for that matter, a husband.