Big frog, Huge Heart!

Wow! this frog was pretty cool, certainly the biggest frog that I have ever held and I must say the coolest colour!

Needless to say the day the boys came back in from morning school break with this creature it took us a while to get back on track with our studies.  But that is what it is all about isn't it?  I guess we just switched gears regarding what we were learning about.
 It didn't take the boys long with the aid of the Internet to discover that 'she' was a giant, white lipped tree frog, the biggest species of tree frog.  They also discovered what they would need to feed her and started to thinking about what kind of habitat she would need.
Before long they had a big plastic box filled with all kinds of a frogs favorite things, such as dirt, logs, banana leaves and a water dish.  I found myself once again sewing a nylon screen cover for the top. (thanks Mom for the elastic, I think most of it has been used on the boys various pet homes!)
 While the boys searched online they also discovered that they should not handle her to much and since she had already had her quota of heart failure for one day they reluctantly left her alone.  They feed her some moths off of the screen that evening and brought her into their room for the night should she manage to escape from her cage.
That was the last we heard of her until about 3:00 in the morning when Kaleb came in and asked "Mom can we move her out of our room, she keeps jumping around and thumping an bumping, I can't sleep." And so they learned something new, she was also nocturnal.
A couple of days after catching her the boys noticed that she was beginning to get a sore on her nose, probably from running it into things because her cage was not big enough, and so they made the very tough decision to let her go free as they did not want her to die.
Both of the boys were sad to give her up but Kaleb in particular loves his pets and while he knew what was best had a really hard time letting her go.
All this restored a new determination to build a big cage out on the deck so that when they catch another one it will have a better home.
The boys and I learned many things about this giant frog, (including the fact that it can pee up to a distance of six feet, didn't witness this one!)  but I think the biggest thing that I learned is that my boys have hearts of gold!
Mel for the Marshes