Well, its kind of a funny story.. My mom was gardening the other day, and she put on the garden clogs that were outside, they are a few sizes too big.. and she went all around the garden ya know, doing whatever she was doing, and then she took them off and bent down to pick them up to set them on the porch and out popped this frog! He had been in the toe of the shoe the whole time! And lucky for him the shoes were too big! :O So she caught him so my nephew could see, intending to release him that night. I wanted to know what kind of frog he was, so I went to the library. But then once I started researching, and found a site that talked about having them as pets I decided to keep him.

I feel bad saying that I "took him from the wild", but I did research and think a lot about it before deciding to keep him. They arent monogmous, so its not like he has a family waiting for him, they are a solitary species, so he wont be lonely, they arent endangered (they are the most common amphibian in the PNW), he wont have any predators to worry about, and he gets his food given to him! And I mean, Im a responsible pet owner, hes not going to be neglected, ya know? But really I think the main thing to me is that he probably wont know the difference. It wont be much different in a terrarium than in my backyard. And in a few months Ill be able to move him from the 10 gallon tank, into my 30 gallon tank (once I get the goldfish a 50 gallon tank).

Where did you get yours luckies? I joined the yahoo! Pacific Treefrog group, and I was reading through some of the archives, and it seemed that most people got theirs from the wild too. Mostly as tadpoles or eggs. Oh hey, and did you need or have a permit for yours?? I read in a few places youre supposed to get one, but Im not sure if it depends on your area or what. And I would get one no prob, but I have no CLUE where or how (or why) to get one!

Oh and Im feeding him crickets that I bought, and I also bought this cool bug catching thing so I can catch and feed him flies and mosquitos and stuff.