57 LB Toad Caught Eating Neighborhood Pets In New Mexico

Not very familar with this website but thought this story to be a little to obscure not to share. Residents of Rodeo, New Mexico started noticing their pets missing they went on the hunt for the culprit expecting to find a mountain cat and what they found instead was a very large over sized toad

Usually this type of toad gets as big as 1.5 pounds, while being recognized as the largest native toad in North America. So how did this kind of toad gobble up all the neighborhood pets? Well, this guy was bigger than average. A whopping 57 pounds bigger!
It has become a huge mystery for scientists who are now scrambling to figure out how in the world this toad became so big, well over 50 pounds his average size.

www.paranormics.com...

Cant really verify this story but if its true is very strange indeed...What would make the toad grow to such an adnormal size.

purp

a reply to: purplemer

Saw this yesterday on another site.

Hoax, look at the fingers on the left hand.

www.snopes.com...

Fake.
Snopes.com

On 24 July 2012, the Chiricahua Desert Museum in Rodeo, New Mexico, posted the above-displayed photograph to their Facebook page, along with the explanation that it pictured a 57-pound Sonoran Desert Toad which for two months had been preying on cats and dogs in the Rodeo area. The imprimatur conveyed by the image's appearance on a museum-related site led many viewers to accept the photograph as genuine, until the museum took to Facebook a week later to admit that the picture was a Photoshopped hoax intended as a spoof of the many giant rattlesnake photos that circulated online:

a reply to: purplemer

If only it were true, I would be first in line to get one of those. However, searching Google reviled it is a hoax.

Snopes

a reply to: butcherguy

Thank you ATS detectives. thought it looked a little to obscure to be true.. Will request thread closed..

Happy Day

Purp..

What would make the toad grow to that size? Probably gobbling heaps of the neighborhood pet's Science Fiction Diet LOL Arjunanda a reply to: purplemer

a reply to: purplemer

Good Lord! I hope it is fake.....

My first thought was frogs aren't carnivores......

originally posted by: purplemer
a reply to: butcherguy

Thank you ATS detectives. thought it looked a little to obscure to be true.. Will request thread closed..

Happy Day

Purp..

Photoshop makes it more difficult to believe what you see nowadays, even when what you are seeing is real, and that is a shame.
That would be a pretty cool pet if there was a toad that size!

That would be one large set of frog legs, if you are into that sort of thing.

a reply to: butcherguy

That would be a pretty cool pet if there was a toad that size!

What you feed it though? Cats? hehe.

a reply to: purplemer

They're back...

originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: butcherguy

That would be a pretty cool pet if there was a toad that size!

What you feed it though? Cats? hehe.

Buckets of cats.

If that's Photoshopped, bravo to whoever did it.

That's gonna give me nightmares...

originally posted by: purplemer
Not very familar with this website but thought this story to be a little to obscure not to share. Residents of Rodeo, New Mexico started noticing their pets missing they went on the hunt for the culprit expecting to find a mountain cat and what they found instead was a very large over sized toad

The nephilim of all toads.

lol

originally posted by: purplemer

What would make the toad grow to such an adnormal size.

purp

I'd say photoshop or Corel, that might be a good starting point LOL.

Cheers - Dave

Even Jabba the Hutt had to start somewhere ...

a reply to: purplemer

What is that pervert doing to that
poor frog?

My God, what is the world coming to?

That's a frog.
Not a toad.
Smooth skin, long rear legs.
Fake as half the titties in Hollywood.

a reply to: purplemer

Well that would probably get some french chef's very interested indeed.