HypnoToad! Your namesake...

[MuseRider]

Old pictures and not very good but this is my barn toad. There was a discussion about him a while back and I got several recommendations for names but I decided to name him after you and I thought you should know.

He is a male American Toad who resides in and around my barn and comes out daily for a scratch, truly he really does. It is very unusual although toads apparently like being handled. He hops right out into the barn aisle when I walk through and waits for me to scratch him before he hops over to his little toad house in the moist area of the shower stall.

He has learned a new trick. If I scratch him just right he leans back on his back legs and sits up. He is a funny little toad and I am rather taken with him.

[Deja Q]

1. He's a cute little fella!

Thanks for sharing (and thinking of my name too)! :-) That's a lovely story to read.

Indeed, as it's not often for 'wild animals' to be so trusting of larger species, that's way cool he trusts you like that. Do you remember when he first came out to you in your barn?

[MuseRider]

2. I heard him

all spring but was never able to find him, I had thrown a bunch of stuff in the shower stall and he must have hidden in there. It was only after I cleaned that out that I saw him. I was surprised the first time he just sat there when I approached. Now he seems to want the attention. He knows he has it good, my cats ignore him and there are bugs aplenty and a nice wildflower garden that he has easy access to. Every now and then, when it is dry he is gone for a few days and I find him out by the waterer. I don't know how he has managed to avoid the big horse hooves but he has.

I am quite fond of him and will miss him if he ever leaves.