02.02.08
It’s alive
It was some weeks now since I took this funny picture of our frog. I was going to lift the brown box you see on the second picture when something green fell down on the shelf. I screemed and jumped backwards, but then I saw it was only a toy, and I was wondering why we had a toy frog there… and then I realized - it’s THE frog! Fast out with the camera. The frog hid itself between two tea jars as you can see. I waited for the frog to start moving again after taking the picture, and I was standing just close, but when I turned back my head after talking to Anthony it was suddenly gone, probably it jumped silently back into the plant which is just under.
He is still making ‘quack quack’, almost every morning around five. Sometimes I count, and it’s most often around eight ‘quacks’, which is a little bit short to be able to record the noise. Karin promised me to analyze the sounds, to see what kind of frog and if it’s a he or she… but even if I have the recorder close, there’s not enough time to sit up and turn it on before the frog stops again.
I’m putting a couple of worms every third day in a cup placed in the plant next to the small bath I also put there. Some time ago though I realized there is a problem with the worms. Just before putting the cup down it was standing on the kitchen bench while I was closing thing with the other worms, and then I saw the worm coming up from the cup, straight up, and then over. Which means… that each morning when I think the frog has been eating during the night, the worms might just as well have escaped and now live happily in the big pot of the plant. Anthony gave me a quite discusting solution - to cut the worm in two. First I refused, but then he say that worms have no sensations, and I was thinking of all people going fishing with worms, so I cut it. He wasn’t very happy at first, the worm, making all kinds of strange movements. But then… they were two. And then, two worms started going up the side of the cup and were just as good at escaping as when they were just one. Puh.
Now I’m having a bit bigger cup, and I try to give the worms just before going to bed, hoping that the frog will hear the worms and be able to catch them before they go down in the ground. I’m not sure though how the frog actually hunts, if he can hear and see the worms…
It’s just some weeks left now until I’ll put the plant back outside. It seems like our frog will have survived the winter!