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u/FootLoosePickleJuice
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Heat index was 110 degrees so we offered him a cold drink. He went for a full body soak instead
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u/loveskovu113 Jul 20 '18
What happened after that? Did you set him down in some shade?
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u/FootLoosePickleJuice Jul 20 '18
I did. I left him soaking in his pool in the shade. I then refilled a small bird bath nearby and told my mom to keep me posted on future sightings. I hope he hangs around her house. If he does, she will take care of him.
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u/mwthecool Jul 20 '18
How did you get him to not run away when you came near? Just luck, or any special approach? I get lizards in my house all the time and I try to save them but they run away whenever I get close. Takes a lot of patience to finally catch one to help them out.
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u/FootLoosePickleJuice Jul 20 '18
My mom noticed him and thought it was a leaf. She touched him and he barely moved like he was lethargic. That’s what made me think maybe he needed some water.
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u/Grotas Jul 20 '18
Stupid question..... did you choose that bottle cap on purpose?? He would not have been able to fit in a smaller pop bottle cap. Everything about this is just perfect. Thank You!!!
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u/FootLoosePickleJuice Jul 20 '18
Just happened to be standing in the right place at the right time drinking a bottle of water. To be honest I kind of expected maybe he’d use his tongue to lap up some water. I didn’t realize they drink through their skin until someone posted that.
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u/ofthrees Jul 21 '18
i can't tell you how many times i see a pic or a gif here that i fall in love with and save, which is deleted by the time i want to show it to a friend. please never delete this, and if you do, please send me the link to the OG. :)
i love tree frogs so much (i have two RETFs) and i've been watching this off and on all day. in fact, today was a pretty shitty day, and every time i needed a little lift, i looped this six or eight times.
i cannot even deal with how adorable this is.
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u/FootLoosePickleJuice Jul 21 '18
I’m so glad this video brought you joy when you needed it today. I hope tomorrow is better. :-)
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u/ofthrees Jul 21 '18
i just checked your post history. apparently you have made a habit of saving lil animal boos!
you for president, 2020!
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You may have saved his little life.
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u/ChillyEli Jul 20 '18
And now he will repay you years later by sitting outside your house, silently reducing any mosquitos that come around your place.
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u/Youarethebigbang Jul 20 '18
Unfortunately, the rest of his species isn't so lucky:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_amphibian_populations
"The decline in amphibian populations is an ongoing mass extinction of amphibian species worldwide. Since the 1980s, decreases in amphibian populations, including population crashes and mass localized extinctions, have been observed in locations all over the world."
And yes, if you're first guess is climate change, it's a overriding factor for many of the potential causes of the extinction, not just a separate cause.
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u/firmkillernate Jul 20 '18
Moisturize me
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u/MAD_UNKNOWN Jul 20 '18
they absorb a lot of water through their skin so i am sure he needed this little bath.
i feel so bad for much of the wild life when this sort of massive heat hits, so many of them can't escape!
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u/wyslan Jul 20 '18
Frogs drink through their skin, so you cooled him off and quenched him. Way to go frog bro.
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u/CrazyCatLady80 Jul 20 '18
I love the way he just settles into the little pool of water. It’s the perfect size.
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Jul 20 '18
We're lucky humans can't drink through their skin. Imagine public swimming pools..
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u/someboysdad Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 20 '18
Thanks for the frog fact. You inspired me and I searched for more.
Fact No. 2 Frogs use their eyeballs to swallow. Frogs eat their prey whole and their eyeballs actually sink down into their mouth and push the food down into their throat.
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u/scuffery Jul 20 '18
Funny enough, throughout my life I never realized tree frogs were so small. Never saw one in real life, and the only pictures i occasionally saw were close up.
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u/Meewah Jul 20 '18
My local zoo has a Herpaquarium and inside they have some poison dart frogs. They're super adorable.
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u/cocobirdi Jul 20 '18
If you go outside just after a rain in certain places in the spring (in the low canopy of a magnolia is where I used to do my looking), you can see all kinds of teeny tiny baby frogs!
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u/VioletVenable Jul 20 '18
It’s the happy wriggle that does me in.
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u/myscreamname Jul 20 '18
I didn't notice that until the 2nd time I watched the clip but when I did, an audible "awwww" followed after.
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u/ryanwalraven Jul 20 '18
"Yes, it's a mysterious flying saucer of water that showed up in front of me, but it's too hot out here to care."
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u/Iamdunk Jul 20 '18
"I accept your offering. You can now care for me for the rest of your life."
"Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime gal!"
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u/random91898 Jul 20 '18
Holy crap everyone get over here. This frog is singing and dancing!!!
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Jul 20 '18
You joke, but when I was a kid we caught a green tree frog in my grandmothers back yard and brought him home in an empty Sprite bottle that we punched holes in, added a little bit of water to, and a big stick that barely fit in the hole.
That frog chilled out in the bottle for a 9 hour car ride, and when we got home we set up a 20 gallon habitat for him and fed him crickets.
Had that bastard for like 5 more years, ended up adding another green tree frog shortly after getting him (this one from a pet store), and it was pretty awesome. I loved it.
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u/transcendReality Jul 20 '18
He literally looks at the person filming before looking at the water and getting in. He steps in as if he may have to jump out, but apparently likes the tasty water, and gets more comfortable. This is some Wind in the Willows type shit.
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u/jackie--moon Jul 20 '18
His little eyes tell it all when he gives that squint of satisfaction and approval at the end
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u/ansmellica Jul 20 '18
You give the frog water to drink. Unknown to you, the frog pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the frog arrives.
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u/kaeladurden Jul 20 '18
"I cannot cure your cancer, kind sir, but I can promise you that you will not leave our Earth alone." Snuggles into your bedside water.
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u/goingtoburningman Jul 20 '18
I was 16, with a group of other teens out in the boundary waters of Minnesota for a month. It was an ascent program for bad kids. In the middle of this trek, the leaders split us up for 3 days. We had a bag of food consisting of sweet grains and a few pieces of candy, approximately 800 calories. We had unlimited drinking water, 1 bottle and fluoride tabs. We were given a sheet of plastic and 10 feet of twine. We had to setup our own camps and survive alone for 3 days. The first day was frantic, setting a base, making my shelter, ridding insects and clutter to keep away bugs and things that bite. As dusk arises, so does the anxiety. The wildlife is in full roar, to the point that you can't hear your thoughts over the wild birds singing their songs. As the night progressed, and the temperatures dropped, so did the songs of the birds. As it seemed, suddenly the woods were black, pitch black, and nothing could be heard. You could only hear your own heartbeat. I longed for family, comfort. I feel asleep thinking I'd never wake again. SNAP! I'm sitting up, still, holding my breath. SNAP! My eyes are wide, trying to visualize what's near and might possibly be my demise. SNAP! I jump and grab the thing closest to me, a boot. Great. I'm shaking and hysterical. I want to shit. Snap.. the breaking branches are getting softer, its moving away. It goes quiet. I have a headlamp, batteries so far gone all I get is a dim glow. I decide to turn it on to check the time on my cheap casio. I'm laying down again and I turn my lamp on. FUCKING FROG IN MY FACE! I screamed like girl in a cheap horror movie. The frog stayed in place. Hes sitting out of the weather in my other boot that was tipped over. This frog came back to my boot for the next 2 nights, and slept in my boot right next to my face. My protector.
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u/dad_no_im_sorry Jul 20 '18
You are crossing the street while looking at your phone. The frog senses danger and jumps out of a nearby puddle. You are hit by a truck and die instantly. The frog leaves.
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u/gaygeekgonemild Jul 20 '18
You race down the alley. It was stupid, you're smarter than this, but you figured you'd save some money on a cab walking home.
"You can run fa**ot but we're gonna get you!" they yell, echoing off the brick walls, thundering in your ears.
When the first one hit you, you'd sprinted. I mean you work out, you're fit...you thought you could outrun them.
They'd first just wanted money but when they saw the stamp from LockJaw, a well known gay club, that's when their tone got even darker.
This was a good state. You'd moved here to get away from this shit. How could this be happening to you...
And then you tripped. Face first, skidding, it was only seconds before they surrounded you and started kicking. One hit your ear and it was like the world exploded and everything started ringing. You couldn't see...is this how you're going to die.
Then one of them startes screaming. "There's something in my eye! Eagh fuck it stabbed my fucking eye!"
You couldn't even see what was happening, just a small green flash in the dark. Zipping back and forth, the attackers went down one by one. It wasn't even thirty seconds before the alley was silent except for the gurgles of choked breathing.
You laid there for you're not sure how long...it felt like hours but was probably only minutes. When you got up your attackers we're sprawled around you. Blood pooled by their throats, just small red lines encircleing their necks ... like a small knife.
You turned to look, trying to figure out who had saved you. In the alley entrance there was a shadow. Bathed in a glow from the incandescent street lamps there was just...a small frog.
You remember...saving a small frog the other day. Offering it some water.
A passing car baths the alley in light and pushes the shadow up on the wall. Instead of a frog though you see a man, tall broad holding a narrow sword like you'd expect in fencing.
You walk up...gently picking up the frog looking at it. It's just a frog....a cute frog but really just a frog. Still unsure what happened you hold it up, peering closer. It leaps and you feel in mild disgust despite what's happened as it's skin brushes your lips....
There's a flash...
And a man stands before you. You're frozen in confusion as he smiles.
Cut to end credit, The Frog Prince
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u/o_shrub Jul 20 '18
Just have to say that anyone who would notice a random tree frog on a hot day, then go get him a drink, is destined to make the world a better place. Keep up the good work.
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For sure, if you take the time to genuinely care for even the smallest of living creatures then you're the type to put your best effort into bettering the world.
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Jul 20 '18
Dark twist, cap was filled with crazy glue. OP is a frog taxidermist.
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u/aislandlies Jul 20 '18
Exactly what I was thinking, making it better one small piece at a time.
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u/AerThreepwood Jul 20 '18
That frog later went on to become Super Hitler. Way to go, guy.
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u/Brownie3245 Jul 20 '18
I live Massachusetts and saw a tree frog clinging to the siding of my house once at night. I always assumed they were tropical, I didn't think they live up here.
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u/imsnixie Jul 20 '18
That is so cute.. And it fits in that tiny cap, wasn't expecting that!
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Jul 20 '18
It must have been so grateful. Just imagine crawling around a wall and a floating mini personal pool comes right up to you.
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u/sirkeylord Jul 20 '18
Oh man I wish that happened to me when I am crawling around walls, but instead it's all "what the fuck are you doing up there?" and "we are calling the police!"
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u/pippen79 Jul 20 '18
Nothing like heat to make a wild animal love humans. I live in Australia and the summers are quite harsh so once we had a parrot struggling in our back yard so I took him some water in a bowl and he instantly flew onto my head and starting flying down into the water to cool off. After about 15 mins once he cooled down he realised that he didn't need me anymore and the bastard bit my ear and flew off.
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u/Bentaeriel Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 20 '18
'Strayan man-eating parrots.
Polly wanna crack your skull and eat your brains like nutmeat.
Edit: added hyphen. Kind of regretting the loss of ambiguity, though.
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u/Lostallthefucksigive Jul 20 '18
My parents have a little tree frog that lives in an outdoor umbrella in their backyard in Atlanta. Whenever I’m there I take a spray bottle and spritz it like crazy, little dude must be hot.
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u/themflatearthers Jul 20 '18
Pro-tip: tap water has chemicals that are harmful to amphibians like this. The spraying- fantastic! You are great! I would just make sure you get some spring water from either the grocery store or pet store. That way your little friend can have chem-free water! Maybe you already do, but I figured I'd put that out there.
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u/Noctiluca04 Jul 20 '18
I love you OP. ♥️ You just gave that frog the best day of his little life.
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u/will1565 Jul 20 '18
Ha that's great, I was expecting him to have a little slurp... Nope "dis my paddlin' pool"😁
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u/Mmedical Jul 20 '18
Ah, retreat! The giant naked ape is here to eat me!
Strange tactics. What is that water? A portable pond?
Well, I shouldn't be rude. I will dip for just a moment.
Ahhh, that's what my green needed. Thank you kind citizen.
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u/CountVonVague Jul 20 '18
Exactly, you can literally watch the frogs thought process and see how quickly it chooses water over big creature
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u/IWugYouWugHeSheMeWug Jul 20 '18
“Ahhh, that’s what my green needed” reminded me of John Mulaney’s story about the old rich guy. “One feels like a duck splashing around in all this wet!”
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u/TooShiftyForYou Jul 20 '18
The cold water on his hot skin must have felt absolutely ribbiting.
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u/SeriesOfAdjectives Jul 20 '18
Not many things here make me actually say 'aww' out loud, this is such an awesome little clip
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u/KingKazark Jul 20 '18
Frogs actually drink through their skin so it make perfect (if adorable) sense.
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u/Sillycute Jul 20 '18
DID ANYONE NOTICE THE FROG PUT THAT LITTLE CHIN ON THE GUY’S THUMB?!?! I just noticed and my cold, dead heart melted a little.
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u/Kindkitty Jul 20 '18
I love frogs. They’re so sweet. Thank you OP for taking the time to do this.
sidetone: if you roll them over on their back and rub their belly they will fall asleep.
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u/_DifficultToSay_ Jul 20 '18
Just like sharks! Although with sharks it’s the nose and not the belly, so not quite....
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u/BarfBag420 Jul 20 '18
People like you restore my faith in humanity! With all the crap in the world you make a froggy happy with a cap full of water ❤ we all can learn from that!
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u/lurkinginnew Jul 20 '18
You have earned the blessings of Kek. You will have meme magic in your life for 420 years.
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u/bobo_brown Jul 20 '18
My name is Frogg
I am so hot
Here comes a man
What has he got?
It is some water
So nice and cool
I will not drink my
New swimming pool!
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u/dealbreakerjones Jul 20 '18
My nem is Frogg
I’s so very hot
But out pops a hand
Sum water it’s got
Thank u kind hand
I’m settle tucked in
Dis water is perfect
For thirsty froggs skin.
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In addition to frogs being cold blooded they also drink through an osmotic patch of skin on their bellies. So you did him a double favor but giving him a drink and some much needed cooling off.
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I found a dead lizard today by my house. Nothing wrong with him other than being dried out. I think he was dehydrated so we just put a random bowl of water on our porch for them
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u/Lets_be_jolly Jul 20 '18
Aww. We have geckos all over my porch! Thanks for the awesome idea to help them. They keep coming inside my house to cool off and my indoor only cats keep leaving their gnawed on corpses around. Hopefully they will go for the water instead.
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Good on you. But just for reference frogs don’t regulate their body temperature by sweating so heat index doesn’t effect them. Only the air temperature is what they feel.
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u/BurtMacklin__FBI Jul 20 '18
Wait but they can still like.. bake in the sun if they don't cool off, correct?
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u/TheTaoOfMe Jul 20 '18
This is one of the cutest “giving an animal water” videos so far. Ahhh so cute
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Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 20 '18
If a 200-foot giant presented me with a kiddie pool while I was clinging to a cliff, I probably would climb in too. I mean, at that point, how could that possibly be my worst option?
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u/tripppySkippy Jul 20 '18
It's been 3 full days since your plane crashed in this god forsaken desert and you are hungry, alone, and thirsty. Just when you were about to give up on life and welcome death into your arms, You see him. That frog you saved all those years ago.
You could still remember how hot it was that day and how happy the frog looked as he jumped into that bottlecap filled with water. The frog remembered that too for he owes his life to you.
The frog looks at you then suddenly hops away, then out of instinct, you follow the frog until he leads you to a small oasis. You hop in and splash around. You drink and feel refreshed. Now the frog has fulfilled his promise he made all those years ago. Then the frog could finally be free. Be free of this cruel, cruel world.
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u/snowdogmom Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 20 '18
So since we’re talking about caring for small animals here I thought I’d bring up my awkward story from today! I was driving back from the store through my complex when I saw all these kids huddled around something round and brown. I assumed it was a baby bird because those fall out of trees all the time in my apartment complex and I’ve rescued quite a few. They were all kind of poking at it and looking really interested so I was 99% sure it was an animal. I park my car, and start to walk over. As I’m getting the closer one of the boys picks up a big rock and slams it on whatever they are looking at. I freak out and shout while running over “NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” They all look at me, a crazy strange adult woman yelling at them like what the fuck? I look down and there’s no animal. It’s just playdoh. The mom then comes out and gives me an intense death stare. I anxiously explain that I thought it was an animal and I rescue birds that fall out of trees in the complex but she wasn’t amused. I walked away and physically cringed at how awkward it was.
Welp that’s it
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u/Tyroneskneegrows Jul 20 '18
Doing God’s work my friend. I have no gold but two thumbs and I raise them to you
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Jul 20 '18
Frogs are specially equipped with a small pouch like area on there chest that let's them drink by absorbing water through there skin.
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u/spinwhellsyourtom Jul 26 '18
Okay so when the water warmed up you made sure to refill it with more cold water right?
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u/BrandonMatrick Jul 20 '18
He will tell his spawn the tale of the day a mythical godgiant saved him with a flying pond.
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u/polsfcdfffff Jul 23 '18
This post is going to be one of the top posts of reddit and i feel so happy because people can learn from it and do the same
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u/TheKingJest Dec 01 '18
In a subreddit where 99% of posts are of dogs and cats, the most upvoted post is of a frog. What a charming little green boy :)
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u/CrushingPowerOfWaves Jul 20 '18
He is drinking while soaking! That’s how frogs do it! You’re a good hooman!
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u/Beatrixie Jul 20 '18
I love the sheer appreciation and relief on his face. He was like, “Ugh, don’t fuck with me, it’s too hot.” Then was pleasantly surprised to realize you weren’t going to kill him.
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u/Sadie-Jack Jul 20 '18
Sooo sweet! Ty for doing that. Most people wouldn't even think to do that (myself included). I know now!
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u/Eyehopeuchoke Jul 20 '18
That frog looked at the camera/human and was like “are you serious? For me? Okay, don’t mind if I do!”
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u/FleshZoo Jul 20 '18
My wife is absolutely 100% mortified by even the sight of frogs.
I thought maybe... Juuuuuuuust maybe this tiny lil guy would crack even the lightest grin.
Nope.
This gets my upvote nonetheless.
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u/Aloeofthevera Jul 20 '18
Quick, sign a contract with him!
Youll be able to summon him when youre in a tough spot
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u/Bruins37FTW Jul 20 '18
You're an awesome person. Frog greatly appreciated that. He can absorb moisture threw his skin so. Great to see there's still caring people out there. Not morons who'd try to crush it or set it on fire. Sick world we live in. Tree frogs are awesome. If you got him on your hand you could feel the sticky pads on his feet heh.
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u/epimetheuss Jul 20 '18
amphibians absorb water through their skin so this was the same thing as a drink to him.
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u/jackie--moon Jul 20 '18
Imagine being stranded in the desert, and a gigantic hand stretches out of nowhere with a perfectly human-shaped ice cold full bathtub for you.
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u/BackstrokeBitch Jul 20 '18
I sent this to four of my friends and their responses were so sweet, they're all 17-19 year old dudes.
"so cute. so fucking cute"
"THEY BABY"
"Big fucking mood He's drinking tho, thas how they do that"
"happy!!!!!!!!!!"
I love my friends
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u/MotoJonesy Jul 20 '18
I like how he elegently submerges himself. I was expecting a good ole' belly smacker.
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Sep 27 '18
You know a post is good when it's #1 on r/aww, and has almost 300k upvotes and it's filled vertically
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u/Nessian_dog Oct 30 '18
Technically, he took you up on the offer. Amphibians absorb moisture the their skin instead of physically drinking water. His little scoot in the cap was him maximizing his surface area inside the water. Good job caring for the little guy!
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u/Tyrannus_ignus Oct 15 '21
Was gonna call this a repost but then i realized this is 3 years old and idk how i am able to respond to a 3 year old post.
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u/periodicblackouts Oct 24 '21
It must be so crazy being a little creature like that. Imagine you're burning up and this 800 ft tall giant just walks over carrying a swimming pool and holds it in your face. I'd be a little off put at first but if I judged it to be a nice giant id hop in too.
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u/lissofossil Dec 09 '21
this post is from 3y ago since when can u comment on this?
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u/funihuni Jul 20 '18
I don’t know why but all frogs have an Australian accent in my mind.
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u/EnglishRose71 Jul 20 '18
As soon as he realized it was water, his need for moisture overcame his fear of humans. Such a sweet thing to see. Thank you for being such a kind person and even noticing the plight of such a little creature.
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u/Juliazul Jul 20 '18
This is so fucking cute I actually gasped and made a weird squealing noise... he’s so happy in his tiny little pool 😭😭😭
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u/goonLife85 Jul 20 '18
Fun fact: Frogs and toads don’t drink water they absorb it through their skin
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u/hnvdijsjgosjfih Sep 09 '18
Frogs drink through their skin, so you cooled him off and quenched him. Way to go frog bro.
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u/NoTomatoExtraPickles Oct 18 '21
I love how he settles in and his lil eyes close like "oh yahhhh" 🥰
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u/foreverwasted Jul 20 '18
He put his toes in the water, I guess you could say he toad the water...I'll leave now
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u/Catrionathecat Jul 20 '18
I thought it couldn't get any cuter
And then the little cutie nestled right in