That was really hard to read, Sandy. It just makes me feel sick. It makes my heart break. It brings me back to what could have happened with Cookie when I was out back and heard her yelling like crazy on the other side of the yard only to run and see her about to bite into the toad she got into in late January. I guess Cookie and I just lucked out in that bufo marinus hasn't made it to the area yet (though they're in the Rio Grande Valley a couple hundred miles south of me
), and instead Cookie's toad was a less poisonous bufo speciosus. But it breaks my heart that you and Meika got the raw end of that luck, since the so-toxic bufo marinus (aka cane toad) is in Hawaii.
Chris