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 Hawty & Nawty
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| You know I only tell you guys the good stuff;
Last night my daughter steps outside on the patio to join the rest of us. Immediately she steps on a Colorado River Toad. A good sized one too.
She FLIPS out. I mean she is in full nuculear melt down. As I try not to cry in her face because I'm the worst mom in the world for thinking this is funny stuff, I convince her after about twenty minutes to come back out and be with us.
She sits down and one of those GIANT black beetles that have a wing span of a Stealth bomber fly right into her face.
I'm not laughing anymore because now she is crying her heart out and runs back into the house. So I sit with her and we share an otter pop and everything is fine.
Today she went outside and got bit by a carpenter ant. Apparently she is allergic or something because the welt is as big as my hand.
She is now on my lap. I hope I don't spill my drink on her or something. Geee |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Poor baby. OMGosh I do have to say I'd probably be laughing my arse off too. She's probably very traumatized though. LOL
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Wrap that child in bubble wrap, give her a balloon and a lollipop and send her outside! Lol MAYBE she wont have any more Trauma
LOL Bless her heart  |
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 Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Oh poor girl! I love toads, just not under foot. I stepped on one the other day too. Heard a pop, but he looked ok so I stuck it in my flower garden. I hope it was ok. Big flying bugs are a no go. Kids going to want to move north where they bugs are smaller and slower (too dang cold for em). |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Usually we don't even see toads until the monsoons and so far we haven't had a drop of moisture. We really need the rain in S. Arizona. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Poor kido, shes not going to want to hang out with the grown ups if this keeps happening to her,lol..
Now that you said something about a drink its time for a cool tall glass of Tea for me, what or you having? |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
Posts: 10277
| Poor baby girl, toads are squishy when stepped on, yuk! |
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Hawty & Nawty
Posts: 20424
| Ice water with lemon. My second favorite beverage next to beer and margaritas. It's not five o clock yet. |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
Posts: 4275
Location: In The Snow, AZ | 
The other day Amber, my 5 year old, was running around the house trying to catch up with me. I turn around just in time to see her trip over a dead rabbit one of the dogs must have brought up. She landed next to it and started bawling because of the "poor, creepy bunny". I couldn't contain my laughter. I had to give him a proper buriel to stop the waterworks. |
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 Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Bless her heart. I hope she isn't scared for life. |
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 Underestimated Underdog
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Location: Minnesota | Goodness. Hope she feels better.
But I have a question, what's an otter pop? |
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Posts: 980
Location: Southwest Minnesota | Otter pops are freeze pops.
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
Posts: 7264
| I can sympathize - I had a huge toad jump on my bare foot yesterday and I screamed! My poor heeler came running to "rescue" me from whatever it was that "got momma!" |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| She checked under her bed last night for toads. Poor thing. |
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