hmmm

from pollywog.co.uk:

"Feeding: Juvenile Toads should be fed daily with a mixture of suitably sized insects including crickets and mealworms. The food items should be dusted with a calcium and vitamin supplement two-three times a week. Adult Toads should be fed every two-three days with a mixture of adult crickets, giant mealworms, earthworms, flour beetles, waxworms, adult locusts, pinkie mice, fish, and may even be trained to take inanimate foods such as lean raw steak, and cat / dog food. The food items should be dusted with a calcium and vitamin supplement once a week."

It seems to me that while you can feed it dog/cat food, it should only make up a small part of the diet (according to this one source anyway). I'd focus it's eating mostly on crickets and nightcrawlers. If you ever do decide to give it some cat/dog food, make sure it's the good stuff -- check the ingredient list, MEAT of some sort should be the first ingredient. If the first ingredient is corn meal or some sort of meat byproduct then it's probably not something you want entering your toad's system. Actually, you shouldn't even feed it to a cat or dog...

Anyway, still waiting on input from someone who has raised cane toads. Despite it being an option, I would still tend to think it's a bad idea...

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