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and it brought back nice memories of "Boop-Boop", the little Western toad we raised from a tadpole last year. He grew up from spring to summer, and then one night I think he smelled the cool night air coming in through the cat door and window. He made a daring escape from his net covered plastic-bin-house on the table, to the open dishwasher door, and onward down to the floor and out through the cat door.

My cat is very old and lets Scrub Jays eat her kibble, and anyway, toads exude foul tasting stuff so I knew my cat ignored him or slept through his escape.

One evening we were letting a hose run under a bush and I found him luxuriating in a little puddle there. Unfortunately, we don't see toads around here very often.