Monday, May 24, 2010

Adopting a Toad with Limb Differences

Mary Alice is an amazingly compassionate young lady. She loves animals of all types and frequently begs to enlarge our family with creatures that she finds in the yard. We often foster them in for a short time
and then release them back into the wild so they can go on their merry way.

Meet our most recent visitor, found over the weekend. Interestingly enough, he is a differently abled toad, in that he is missing his entire left front arm and most of his left leg (below the "knee" joint). This does not seem to slow him down at all, as he still enjoys jumping and doing all the normal toad activities.

Here he is in the beautiful habitat created by Mary Alice and her two dear friends. Who wouldn't want to live in such a paraside? I have to say, he looks most pleased with his "situation". In this photo, he is in the right third of the box, next to the white flowers.


In this photo, you can see his missing left arm and the "shortened leg".
And isn't that a smile on his face?

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