>From:    Alexandra Sargent-Colburn<[log in to unmask]>
>
>...frog heaven. And Rana Sylvatica is the first to emerge from the
>mud and serenade us all night long with songs of endless, moist lust.
> http://www.naturenorth.com/spring/sound/Wood_Frog.mp3

We call them "giggle frogs". They sound like what we think frogs would
sound like if they giggled. A whole swamp full of giggling frogs...
hmm... maybe that's kind of disturbing, come to think of it.

>So I, being the kind of person I am (horrible), snuck up on him and
>slammed a book on the computer desk. He didn't even stop to look to
>see what had made the loud noise, he just leapt for the floort, hit it
>leaving sparks in the darkness from where his undercarriage scraped
>the carpet and took off across the room in terror, disappearing into
>his cage for the night.

I did something similar to a cat once. I had this cat that loved
drinking out of the toilet. And keeping the lid closed didn't deter
him. He would just shove his big fat paws under the front edge of the
lid, until he could get his nose under, and then he'd drink out of the
toilet with the lid resting across his shoulders. So one day I snuck up
and flushed the toilet while he was having his drink. HAHAHA! I don't
think he ever drank out of the toilet again (mission accomplished).

Karen

[Posted in FML 6308]