I raised these North American Bullfrogs from tadpoles I purchased as bait. It seems that with Frogs quickly disappearing, the Congress was quite concerned about world demand for these guys as pets, and feared the additional strain on the environment might lead to their extinction.

I raised these guys as a study of water quality for some lab experiments I am doing.

They no longer croak and one of them became deformed shortly after emerging from the water. I found that Las Vegas Municipal Water was the culprit. Our water is recycled through an expensive process called Reverse Osmosis which does not address emerging contaminates that are too small for the membranes to catch. Emerging contaminates are substances such as fuel additives and pharmaceuticals such as Viagra and Estrogen (birth control pills).

Think of it, one and a half million people will use the toilet today in Las Vegas, and by this time next month, we'll be getting it out of our tap again.

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