My kitchen island has become a bit of a freak show. This is the an Albino African Clawed Frog that somehow managed to become a part of our lives temporarily.
We named her Petunia…we were trying to think of the most beautiful name for the ironic appeal. Basically the story goes, the owners were going to dump her because she killed her mate, and we were the suckers saved her from her deadly fate.
Have you seen the naked mole rats at the zoo? If you are like me, I just can’t stop staring at them because they look so weird – she’s kind of like that.
She looks like a plucked chicken…that swims. She has no eyelids so you don’t ever know if she is sleeping. There are times I walk by her and get goosebumps because she just freaks me out.
Intrigued? Come on by, bring the kids…hopefully she won’t be here that long.
July 13th, 2010 at 6:42 am
If you know Matt Schaefer, he might be interested in owning a creature like this. His basement is full of different types of exotic lizards. I wonder if he’d want a frog to add to the menagerie. Petunia’s beautiful, and by that I mean creepy.
July 13th, 2010 at 7:28 am
No words…
Well, other than agreeing with Jen. Schaefer would love that.
July 29th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
When I taught science at CCS, I raised these with the kids when they were 3rd graders–only about 1/2 of them survived it to adulthood, and then home with them. Good luck! I wonder if it’s one of the ones I raised…