Yeah I messed up my wording haha.

In my male Easterns cage I put the toads in at night, while he is hiding under his log. Over night the toads work out their conditions and burrow and the male will spend the next day or two looking around until he finds it.

Where the toads would just "sit" is with my western while he was on aspen bark. They would try to burrow but just end up displacing some bark and not actually end up hiding. Now my western is on sand but that was just a few days ago and I likely won't have a toad to try out the behavior in his cage until the next warm rain. As far as my Eastern he is on true frogs until spring time.

And I have also observed the pinning behavior in the wild. From time to time while I am at work I will see an Eastern moving around rooting in the soil before its body makes a slight jerking movement and then "sits" for a bit. Sometimes, not always, it will pull back out and have a toad. The other times I managed to figure out that they just ate the toad in the hole because on one occasion, just one, I went to pick up the snake thinking that it didn't have a toad, and I found out quickly that it did haha.

So basically I have seen this behavior repeated in captivity, and seen it - 8-9 times, in the wild.

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