when does she squeak? I've always considered female toads to genuinely be mute (no chirping or mating calls) but I'm fairly certain most frogs and toads, male or female, have a distress call that you might hear for example when they are being swallowed by a snake.

The squeaks you mention, do they occur when you are holding the toad? A lot of times frogs and toads are not very good at distinguishing male from female so when they are breeding there needs to be a way to prevent an understandable mistake. In most cases, the male has a release call that will be sounded if another male grabs onto him from behind. The call (a series of vibrations and chirps in American Toads) is to inform the other male that he's made a mistake. This can be simulated when you grab onto a toad applying pressure to the sides or behind the arms. If that's when you hear the squeaks then I'd say it's probably a male.

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