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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.

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JFH wrote:

> Unlikely considering they were all surprised when I told them

That doesn't mean they didn't do it. I, personally, would feel slightly embarassed that I'd crushed a frog - mainly because that would imply my eyesight wasn't at it's best

Not the thing you'd confess

tnc wrote:
> Didn't that phrase (well, "borrowed sentence") originally
> come from the Simpsons ?

How dare you.

EDIT: That makes it sound like I came up with it. I didn't, but it's not from The Simpsons.

tnc wrote:
> And does no-ones else live in your house that could have trodden on
> it ?

Unlikely considering they were all surprised when I told them. People generally notice when they tred on a frog.

I'm going to phone Mulder and Scully.

JFH wrote:
> It can't have been trodden on because it was my garden, not the middle
> of the road or on the pavement.

And does no-ones else live in your house that could have trodden on it ?

Perhaps it was crushed by a stone or something that fell from a Tree ...

RastaBillySkank wrote:

> EDIT: Actually, I can, it's just that any other way involves a
> fiendish system of ropes, pulleys and two-way mirrors.

Didn't that phrase (well, "borrowed sentence") originally come from the Simpsons ?

It can't have been trodden on because it was my garden, not the middle of the road or on the pavement.

it looks as if it has a dent in its back, as if somthing has squashed it slightly, causing the guts to come out. You can squash a slug, all its guts will come out, but it will somtimes stay the same shape!

I'm glad I ate dinner before seeing that. My bet is he/she got trodden on/squashed. I honestly can't think of any other way that could've happened.

EDIT: Actually, I can, it's just that it involves a fiendish system of ropes, pulleys and two-way mirrors.

Ducks and Chickens (Me ... keep Poultry ... of course not) can sometimes succumb to a disease/random occurence where ... their Heart trails out of their hole to be honest

Perhaps frogs can become infected with a similar thing, involving more Organs ?

Don't mess with Calum.

He's a super biologist chemica science bloke