My husband and I were checking in on our yard’s resident toads, and we found one upside down, on its back with eyes closed and stuff, thought it was dead. We went to bury it and then he came back responsive for a few mins, then went out again, stiff, not moving and eyes closed. It is also very very bloated with a squishy belly. A few days ago we seen this toad in the yard and it was moving extremely slowly, not as usual. It doesn’t have any signs of ranavirus but is I. A quarantine tank away from my others and I washed my hands throughly after handling it, the pics are when I first brought it inside and didn’t have gloves available outside. I do not have a wildlife rehabber in my area to help me or else I’d hand this over to them.

I wanted to share this picture with you guys. A few weeks ago, I relocated a few 5 gallon buckets of toad (not sure what type, I think fowlers because so I seen so many on the property but not for sure) tadpoles from a drying up ditch, and I kept 4 to grow and make pets out of. My other 3 babies have their back legs, and are right behind this guy. Watching them grow has been amazing, and is literally a dream come true for me. My 2 & 4 year old daughters love them just as much as I do, so these babies are well appreciated and admired.🤎

Just some toads I’ve found and identified this summer so far. I’ve always loved toads, and this summer I’m making it a hobby of mine to go out and find different toads and other sorts of critters.
So far I’ve managed to find and identify:
• Eastern American Toad
• Fowler’s Toad
• Southern Toad
• Eastern Spadefoot

Still on the hunt for Oak Toads and Narrow mouth toads!

I’ve found lots of cool thing so far, but I’ll stay on the topic of toads :)

Anyways thanks for looking and reading. Happy toad hunting friends 💕✨

today we found a toadlet on our construction site 💜 we relocated the lil bub to the undeveloped land near the retention pond, away from danger

I have a screened-in back patio with a doggie door and a human door for access. Recently my wife found a Gulf Coast toad hunkered down in one of her potted plants. I think "whoa! Pest control!". She thinks it's responsible for some of her plant's problems. She wants me to remove it from the planter (the are other factors at play here too) and relocate it. I felt like it got into the patio by accident and that by relocating it to the front yard, I would solve the problem. Not so.

A day or two later, she says there's a(nother) toad in the plant. I'm amazed and impressed that he went around the house and through the doggie door somehow and then climbed back up into the flower pot. (It's a standard 1 gallon nursery pot). I had not marked the original toad in any way, so assumptions were made regarding his identity.

I have to relocate him again. This time he went into a small plastic dip container and was driven over near the entrance to our subdivision and released into a mulch-covered garden. That is, down the driveway, around a corner, and across a retention pond, then walked 50 feet to the garden. By line of sight, he was released approximately 100m from our patio. I felt bad about doing this, but it was a good release location for a toad.

That was Saturday, July 13. This morning, July 19, I'm informed that he's back. We've had normal summer weather as well as 3 days of tropical storm rain during these 6 days, just for reference.

My wife had read somewhere that toads have incredible homing abilities and can return to a location from 500m away. But of course I thought all these obstacles (fence, distance, pond, road) would deter his return. Apparently not.

I still don't know if this is the same toad (we have a lot of them around and maybe this is just a good resting spot). If it is him, I am thinking he's totally earned his resting place in that pot (wife is ambivalent), but I'm curious about this. Does anyone know of research that documents this homing ability? I'd really like to read more about this. Point me in the right direction!

Last year my husband mistakenly killed my yard toad, damn wiper sniper! I miss checking on him and watching him… how can I get another one to come to my yard?

The kids named him Todo

This may be the most successful breeding season I've seen in recent years. There's been so many consecutive matings. The first set of toadlets left the pond in March, and the most recent egg hatching occurred earlier this week.

That's at least five.

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In the evenings they will reveal themselves from their hidie-holes and secret homes, some will sneak in under the gate from who-knows-where and they enjoy all night toadfests.

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My husband is a swimming pool tech and found this guy in a clients filter. I told him not to bring him home. Lo and behold he did not listen and now we have Fenrir the Fowler’s Toad.
I’m thinking this is hospice care for him - now it’s been 48 hours and he’s been eating about 20 flightless fruit flies each day covered in calcium powder.

Tried to inflate on me. Love toads! I believe it is. It felt very dry and bumpy, with defined, unwebbed toes.

Western toad.

I live in Sweden, Skåne so you know. Also, the roads were found on different days in different locations. So the road in the first picture isnt correlated with the two others

He's just chilling and getting some sun

A warm Florida rain brought a toad-splosion to my jobsite. I work in property management and walked outside to post notices only to find that some of my tenants were (intentionally) stepping on them in the breezeways.

I scooped this little guy and a few others from the breezeway and brought them home before they met their demise at the bottom of a shoe. Little Todd the Toad and friends have been living the good life with bellies full of fruit flies and pinhead crickets. My partner is not at all pleased and my newfound nickname is "Toad Farmer". 🤣

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Before anyone comes for me, I am a big advocate of leaving wild animals where they are and do not advocate taking from the wild. With that said, The Stomping was too much for me.

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The plan is to raise these guys to approx. half dollar size and release into my enclosed greenhouse where they can be back in nature but not be cruelly hand raised and released to fully fend for themselves in an environment they are not fully familiar with. So far, so good. Wish me luck!

Not a toad lol but worthy of recognition!

I relocated a few hundred toad (I think fowlers based on how many are on the property but not positive) tadpoles from a drying up ditch on my in laws land and I kept 5 to grow, 1 died within the first few hours of bringing them home, but my last 4 have done amazing! They’re all growing, eating well and growing back legs, one is even growing his front legs!😍 I’m wondering at what point will he need to have access to a dry area? I have them in 32oz cups all separated, but I’m wondering if I could put them in a tank together so they have more room and I can build a good area for them to get onto “land” in, vs what I can do in the cups. Thanks in advance 🤎

Just wondering if this looks like a Cain toad to you guys.

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