elodieunderglass:

equagga:

bunjywunjy:

“Hey, wanna see a Pixie Frog?” I ask

“Sure,” you say, holding out your hands

I plop this into your arms.

“hold him like a baby, he’s heavy” I instruct you

“what,” you mutter “the fuck.”

congratulations, you have  been forcibly introduced to the African Bullfrog, also 

known in pet-owner circles as the Pixie Frog.

look at his little hands!

while they are indeed adorable, the nickname actually derives from the scientific name of the species (pyxicephalus adspersus), and not any positive qualities they possess. 

hoo boy they don’t have many of those, lemme tell you

found throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pixie Frog lives in wet areas where they eat pretty much anything they can fit into those ginormous mouths. (this includes fish, other frogs, bugs, snakes, lizards, other frogs, rodents, unattentive birds, other frogs, and probably you too if you hold still long enough)

this is a creature born with neither fear nor conscience

and it’s no idle threat either, because Pixie Frogs can grow to 10 inches long, which is well within ‘unreasonably huge’ for an amphibian. also, unlike most frogs, Pixie Frogs have fucking teeth

ALL THE BETTER TO EAT YOU WITH, MY DEARRRRR

in spite of all of this, Pixie Frogs remain popular pet animals, possibly because they will allow you to pick them up and carry them around like a newborn.

and we can respect that.

she has four of them and they’re named after her grandchildren

just, you know, make sure you count your fingers after you hold one.

EXCUSE YOU BUT ALL OF THEIR CHARACTERISTICS ARE POSITIVE

also you forgot that they’re one of few frog species in which the male is larger than the female so in amplexus they look like this

haha frog stack

here’s a picture of Many of them because they get funnier the more of them there are

now I don’t want to be That Guy but that is not really how you hold a baby, one should not balance one’s young on outstretched hands like one is proffering a sacred pumpkin, which is why when you hand a baby to a friend who has never touched one before, they try to hold it this way (i.e., at arm’s length, like a yam, or an unexpected fish) then the baby cries. You should only hold a baby aloft like this if you are a celebrant of a ceremony where you present them to the massed group of wild animals over whom they will rule as a monarch.

To hold something like a baby, you must really hold it like a scared puppy, which is like This:

can I hold this frog like this…. I wish to…. I feel it would be appropriate…. I would carry it about the city slowly, making pronouncements. I wonder if the frog would like this. would the frog enjoy being held like a baby