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"Can frogs excrete their insides?"

I was in the garden, watering plants and things, and I saw a green/brown frog sitting on the floor. I moved closer but it didn't appear to be breathing or blinking or anything really. However, it had its head held high and it looked just like your average, alive frog.

On closer inspection, I could see that just behind it was a reddish, pink mess which coveredone of its legs and its backside. I then realised it was certainly dead. It was fully inflated though and looked perfectly well before you looked behind it. The only dead frogs I've seen before have been squashed on the road, or completely torn apart by my cat.

I can't understand what happened to it. Either my cat has become a master frog surgeon and has learnt how to rip out a frogs insides whilst leaving the body perfectly in tact or the frog has crapped out all of its internal organs.

[URL]http://krayzdsign.staghost.com/images/deadfrog.jpg[/URL]

The dent is just the natural shape of the frogs' body, well, the curve is.

The dent at the back is just where the organs are coming out, but if there isn't one, it can't have been crushed

So, I'm guessing it is a disease

tnc wrote:
> Have you led an inquisition ?

Yes.

And as for the dent in the frogs back, I think that's a camera trick or something because you can't see it on the actual creature.

Unless someone went into the shed, how would you know if they had ? Have you led an inquisition ?

"Where were you on the afternoon of August 4th"

No bushes, look at the picture, it's on the path. the garden is 'L' shaped, and there no need to go round the corner because the only thing that's there is the shed (which nobody has been into recently) and now a dead frog.

JFH wrote:
> GATTACA?

Bah. I deride your film knowledge.

[URL]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/[/URL]

That from definitely has a mis-shapen back, like it's been rolled over by a bike or something.

I once ran over one end of a big slug on my mountain bike, and the other end exploded like a giant spot. Looked kind of similar.

I blame the wasp crawling into the wound

Yes, in a part of the garden where you wouldn't go, perhaps because it was covered in bushes, means you wouldn't see it

Stepping on it only slightly could have done that, which would explain it not being "properly squashed" and them not noticing

GATTACA?

tnc wrote:
mainly because that
> would imply my eyesight wasn't at it's best
>
> Not the thing you'd confess

Indeed. You'd be a national joke.

"Ha! You have below average eyesight you're not fit for human company".

It'd be like GATTACA only with the visually impaired.

A human foot would properly squash it though. Look at the picture, it's not squashed. Also, it was in a corner of the garden where nobody would have been too likely to go.