We have five terrariums and many frogs. Sunday afternoon, I was cleaning the frogs' water, just finishing up the biggest terrarium, which has about 25 frogs and toads, mostly tree frogs. A big, beautiful tree frog, one of my favorites, Abubakar (Mom has been personally introduced to Abubakar), escaped. I wasn't quick enough and he was gone. Usually, when a frog escapes, it turns up in a day or two later on a door or wall. Early this morning, as I was getting ready to go to the gym, there's Abubakar, hopping down the hallway floor like he knew exactly where he was going. I chased him into a bedroom, grabbed him, and put him back in his terrarium. However, just as I grabbed him, I hit my head on the corner of a dresser, splitting open the top of my forehead. Blood everywhere -- a trail of blood from the dresser to the terrarium, which I had to clean up. (This is an outcome I can live with.) As I was leaving, I told Mrs. Raptor. She was in bed with the dogs and wasn't prepared to deal with my bullshit at that hour, 4:30. She said "That's nice, Abubakar is back, safe, in his house, and you have a story to tell."

 

GREAT NEWS R B glad that lil Monkey found his way back to his home! Now go get some bandaids Those Frogs are soooooooooo cute!

 

Glad about Abubakar (is that the Abubakar from the Nigerian Fraud email?) but OUCH!.

 

No, Abubakar is a Tanzanian tree frog. That's the other side of the continent.

 

However, one of his terrarium associates, Obasanjo, is a Senegalese poison dart frog. Had he been the escapee, I might not have been able to give you such a response to your question. The main thing here is that Abubakar, Obasanjo, et all are reunited and happy.

 

One of the names on the famous Nigerian email was a dude named Abubakar.

 

Yeah, I know. I've been getting that stuff for years.

 

 

We at the National Oil Ministry have overcharged oil companies $52 million and we want to put in your account. You get to keep 40% of it. When I first got one of these in the mail years ago, I took it seriously and called the FBI. The FBI agent laughed and said "Sounds like a good deal. Why didn't you do it?"

 

Sigh, this was supposed to be a thread about Abubakar the frog,