Man finds frog in lettuce  |  Photo Credit: Twitter
Key Highlights
- Simon Curtis found Tony the frog in his box of salad
- He gave the baby frog baths and snacks
- The Twitter thread about Simon's adventures with Tony has gone viral
A man who found a baby frog in his salad box is taking care of him by feeding him snacks and giving him baths.
Simon Curtis took to Twitter to share his chronicles with the little frog he has named Tony.
"I found the cutest little frog in the bottom of my romaine lettuce tonight- it’s too cold to set him outside (27 degrees), but he’s been living in the lettuce in the fridge for several days now- does anyone know what I should do so that he doesn’t die?" Simon tweeted.
In the photo, Tony was seen in a container sitting near the lettuce.
Simon said that even though he bought the salad four days before, the frog was "hopping and clearly well."
In an update, Simon said that he had put the "remaining lettuce back inside" the box and gave the frog a "mason jar lid of water, and sprayed the entire container down with water."
Tony somehow managed to escape his home but Simon found him on the top of a door frame.
The little amphibian allowed his human friend to pick him up. Watch:
"Just spoke to Mark Howery, Senior Wildlife Diversity Biologist at Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, and was able to confirm that Tony is indeed a green tree frog," Simon said in a tweet.
The frog was given some live wax worms. He also got to take a bath in a mason jar lid.
And then, Tony escaped from his container to go and hide in the shower.
“He was so dehydrated and shriveled I was worried he’d died, but he’s now immersed in distilled water, cleaning himself, and coming back to life!!” Simon wrote.
Simon then asked people if he should "keep Tony as a pet or release him."
In a turn of events, Tony apparently had had a “third escape adventure.”
Simon then moved Tony to the bathroom "where the lighting isn’t as harsh and there isn’t as much activity."
Simon said that he is "incredibly torn" as he "really don’t know what to do." He wrote, "I love him so much. He feels like a little Christmas miracle.'
"I’m very happy to keep Tony as a pet, but only want to do that if it is the right thing to do for both him and the environment. Ideally, I’d take him to a creek and watch him hop away to finally have the little frog life he was trying to have in the first place," Simon added.
He eventually decided to keep Tony after "consulting with Dr. Jonathan Kolby, @MyFrogCroaked."
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