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Caturday: No Toad Licking!

by 1389AD ( 149 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Open thread at June 2nd, 2012 - 12:00 pm

Cats love to hunt, and they aren’t always aware that some prey animals have effective defenses. Licking or biting toads is unsafe for cats, as well as for dogs and other pets. That’s because many toads exude significant amounts of psychoactive toxins in their skins that cause salivation and foaming at the mouth, vomiting, loss of appetite, throat lesions, and sometimes death.

Simon’s Cat in ‘Tongue Tied’

Published on May 25, 2012 by simonscat

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An inquisitive cat explores the garden.

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Milking The Toad

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 162 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, Art, Humor, Open thread, Science at February 28th, 2011 - 11:00 pm

Questions arise occasionally on where we find topics for the OOT. This particular thread resulted from a long lost .gif animation that we found behind the Rec Room couch with the cat stuff:

A  quick google search for toad lickers brought us to the Wikipuddle that mentioned The Church of the Toad of Light that in turn linked to another article that had a photo with a link entitled “Milking the Toad” that displayed this nice pen and ink sketch:

See how easy it is? Just follow your gut instincts, and you too can put up a unique and mildly disturbing post for The Overnight Open Thread!