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I'm totally new here. I'm a cat person, but have a frog question. My friend keeps a Big Green food bowl filled with Purina Kit'n'Kaboodle dry cat food for his inside-outside cat. There's several other visiting cats that stop by for a free meal also.

The other visitor is a large Toad Frog (now, I assume it's a Toad)and my guess would be that he weighs close to a pound. Is that big for a frog? He comes every day and sits on the side of the bowl, sometimes in the bowl. We have never seen him actually eat any of the food. The water dish is stainless steel and he has no interest in it whatsoever. What can he possibly be doing, does he have a taste for cat food? We are clueless.

The resident cat will not go near the food long as Toad Frog is in the bowl. He sits there half the day sometimes. Can someone enlighten me?

kittifaye

is there a pourch light over the food?it may be eating bugs that come to the light.or flys that eat at the food.

Lots of anecdotal reports of Australian cane toads, Bufo marinus, eating cat and dog food from dishes but I never saw any do it and still have never seen them do it on television programmes about cane toads. I suspect that they eat moving insects that are attracted to the food. I am prepared to be convinced otherwise though.