I just saw my cat chase a live frog though the livingroom.

My cat trying to catch it but no luck so far.

I don't know how this frog got into the house but it is welcome.

I know that our dog starting foaming at the mouth when she bit a frog.

I have a sprained ankle, I have been hopping around myself.

This was a adult frog, I can see now my housemates will have fun trying to catch the frog.

(It's toads that make cats and dogs froth at the mouth)

Of course it might also be a toad that is currently hopping about the house...

The frog looked like our regular old frogs, my cat didn't know how to catch it.

:hi:

if Mr./Miss kitty catches him.

chance.

That's good to hear.

:hi:

My cat once came into the house with a live Bluejay in her mouth. (She came through the pet door). It flew around my living room for awhile and finally went out the open door.

My cat would crash around the room but never catch the bird.

My cat wouldn't talk to me for days. Seriously, she actually sulked. I didn't know cats could do that.

My 6 month old cat cat sulk with the best, if I should give her the wrong can food.

She is turning into cat really fast, her kitten days are behind her.

My 6 month old cat cat sulk with the best, if I should give her the wrong can food.

She is turning into cat really fast, her kitten days are behind her.

.. till you've been ignored by a CAT!

When I was married, I brought my very urbane wife to WVa to meet my family, unfortunately on the occasion of my father's funeral. I was really nervous about our exceedingly modest house et al back home, and did my best to quell my anxiety through the sadness. My wife was uncharacteristically charitable that weekend, for which I was grateful.
On the morning we were departing, she got out of bed in the pre-dawn chill first to wash up, and then came back pale and nervous after finding a huge bat had somehow gotten into the old house and stranded itself in the slippery bathtub. I was mortified! Would it do any good to say that this never happened before?

The bat was enormous, but helpless, and eventually I was able (with tennis racket) to encourage it to slither into a big paper bag. When I took it outside and opened the bag, the bat soared effortlessly out, truly beautiful in the dawn's gathering light.

Shock, embarrassment, huge (eventual) laughter? You betcha!!

I think the bat was nature's way of saying "Never be embarassed about where you come from". Actually, I can relate.
Did your wife ever warm up to the place?:

Truly the only "up" moment of that weekend.

As for the rest of it, other truly irreconcilable differences came to the fore some years later, and we became another of those "1-in-2-marriages...."

I've since gained a lot more perspective, realizing that we each are truly more than circumstances dictate. My youthful anxieties---it was never shame---were natural then, given our very different families, but all is better now.

Happily, the artistic relationship that brought my ex- and I (we're in the dance field) together is still intact and strong, though we work in different circles mostly nowadays. We've definitely found a better domain for our interactions, after a bit of time spent on opposite coasts (she in CA, me in NYC.)

It is a giggler of a beast-in-the-house story isn't it? I never did tell her about the occasional bird, chipmunk, or blacksnake that found their way indoors in years past...unbelievable since my Dad was such a handy guy with the doors and windows and such. Nature always finds a way, right?

Thanks for replying. :hi:

My schnauzer came into contact with a cane toad and the poison from its parotid glands made him so ill, he died. His liver never recovered.

Bufo marinus is the scientific name if anyone wishes to look them up. They seem to be everywhere.

It is now outside where it belongs, still don't know how it got into the house.

:)

I'm always having to catch lizards and put them back outside. They die in the A/C.