this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
53 points (100.0% liked)

Animals and Pets

4006 readers
6 users here now

Pretty self explanatory. Post animals, post pets, post stuff about animals and pets!

(It's not mandatory, but we also encourage providing a description of your image(s) for accessibility purposes! See here for a more detailed explanation and advice on how best to do this.)


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

[Image description: an American Toad rests on my hand, waiting to be put back]

I have no idea how this chonker escaped being noticed by the ducks that were around us, but they were placed into an area with more cover than my vegetable garden when their photoshoot was over.

Happy almost Wednesday my gender-nonspecific dudes

top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Hol 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Be careful, that’s clearly a hypnotoad.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 10 points 5 months ago

Jokes on them, I'm already piloted by a brainslug

[–] frog@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago

A truly magnificent and noble friend.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago
[–] Alice@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What a cutie! 😍 I've never gotten close enough to a toad to hold it before, that's cool!

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

For me at least, the trick is to bring my hands together as though I'm about to cup water (slowly) and to get them to jump into my hands.