American Toads: A Very Underappreciated Animal 

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American roads are amazingly intelligent. At my old house there was a big one that lived under a gutter and it learned to hop out into the open whenever it felt a person go by, since I would always feed it ants and worms

Personally, I don't find any pet lesser than another! Everyone has their own taste in pets, even if it's a "common" animal it is still special!

I’ve always loved toads. They are adorable, fun to watch and have amazing appetites. Great video dude 👍🏼

Really love this channel, you have unconditional love towards animals!!! Love how you blame yourself for not researching. There are so many people out there who think that because they were little it was fine that they killed their pet. Personally when I started in the aquarium hobby, like many others I overstocked a 10 gallon and didn't have proper filtration nor knowledge, I was 8. To this day,17, I still feel sad about that tank and the fact that it took 14 lives for me to become a knowledgeable hobbyist in the aquarium hobby! But I still feel that whether you're a kid or not, a pet is not a toy, a pet is an animal which you vow to care for and give it the BEST conditions possible!

In my life I've kept American Bullfrogs,Green Frogs,Leopard Frogs,Pickerel Frogs,Cricket Frogs,Spring Peepers,Green Tree Frogs,Fowlers Toads,Narrow Mouthed Toads,Whites Grey Tree Frogs,Jellybean Frogs,African Dwarf Frogs cool fact my Grandma use to feed Toads catfood on her back porch like little dogs.

Please do a American Toad care video! I would love to see it! :)

Your toads are so cute! I’ve always loved roads. I’ve never thought about keeping them as pets though. Maybe you could do a video about care and set up for toads and then give tips on how and where to find them.

Somehow, a group of 10-25 toads always comes up on my porch every Spring-Fall night. Don’t even talk about the toads when it rains. I’d say 50 of them come to my porch on a rainy nights.

I love American Toads! In fact, I have 4 of them. Including 5 frogs. 3 are tree frogs and 2 are... IDK their species. For catching frogs and toads, I have to look at night. That's when they come out. Especially when its humid or wet. There are more frogs than toads at night, but ocationally I find a toad.

Whats with that dog snapchat filter when you said Basic

toad:

As soon as I heard that Toad’s tongue smacking sound, I was like

I LOVE TOADS. They've been my favorite pet my whole life. They really are underappreciated, and very cute.

I recently caught a gorgeous Fowler's Toad in my neighborhood, big girl, at least a few years old. I've had her for 4 months now and she is super chill and fat - I ended up naming her Cheesecube for her bold yellow-brown markings and roundness haha. Common toads like Fowlers and Americans are some of my very favorites, and even though she pretty much just sits in her burrow all day looking grumpy, I do take her out sometimes because she is an adorable bean, and she just sits on my hand and walks up my arm. I also feed her dubias and she really seems to enjoy them. I've always enjoyed catching and releasing toads but I never expected to enjoy having one as a pet so much, they really do have a lot of personality!

Toads are adorable. And I definitely can confirm that they love to cross the road, especially on wet rainy nights, sometimes they're so dense we can barely avoid hitting them.

Found a toad in my yard once, probably was one of my best finds while herping (usually all I get is the wood frogs and that one garter snake who lives around the pond and eats the frogs XD)

I dont have much of a plan for this video but here are two toads.

A tip to keep them contained when holding them: Put your pinkie between their legs and then your index and thumb around their body right in front of their front legs (not quite on their neck/head so you're not impeding breathing or anything). I have a toad named Dory (after her green dorsal stripe, not the fish. I've actually stopped associating the name with the fish and now with my toad XD) that's about twice as big as yours (I can never remember just how big she is, I HAVE measured her) and she stays quite comfy in that position for a while and it's quite difficult for her to get out of. They can't back out because of your pinkie, and can't get forward unless they're very sneaky little things. When I first got her and didn't really know what I was doing she got a mild impaction because we were feeding her darker superworms (the exoskeleton is harder on the darker ones and can lead to impactions. The lighter the better, I try to feed her ones that just molted as much as possible) that was the position I discovered that she couldn't escape out of. The vet had me feed her laxatives by hand and the position they used was basically just covering her with my hand and then getting someone else to open her mouth and get it in, but there were two problems with that, 1) she could easily just scurry under the hand covering her and 2) it was difficult for one person to operate both items. So, I just came up with that position and then one person holds her and opens her mouth and the other put in the laxatives. I don't remember how I came up with that as it was quite a while ago, but I did, and now it's become my main carrying position if she's feeling energetic. Most of the time she's content to just stay on my palm and doesn't try to jump off or anything (which is surprising since she was wild caught. It could have something to do with the fact that she wasn't quite full grown when my dad caught her (the story of him catching her is actually him almost running over her with his truck so he hopped out and cut the tops off of two water bottles so they fit inside of each other as a makeshift carrying case... Quite creative if you ask me) so her brain might have been more open to new situations so she got used to us easier. She wasn't nearly as relaxed and tame as she is now when we caught her, but she's still active, alert, and is eating well). She's quite smart and won't jump off anything higher than a foot or so, and she's rarely jumped off thing higher than like 6 inches. Anyway, the laxatives weren't something you could put on worms and the reason we were concerned was that she had pretty much stopped eating, so we also had to force feed her a paste that you made with a powdered food and water. Once the impaction cleared up she was eating normally and settled down quite nicely.

I recently caught an American Toad that has completely different colors and patterns on one side of its body than the other. Hoping to breed it next spring....