Kasa-pyon, My Japanese Tree Frog(アマガエルのカサぴょん）

A couple years ago, in cold November I met my pet, Kasa-pyon. I was on a bus trip to a mushroom farm with other mums from Little Biscuits' kindergarten, and in front of the BBQ place there she was hopping. I first caught her on the concrete floor and brought her to the bushy area so she won't be stepped.

I had my mushrooms and 2 thin slice of Kobe beef with bunch of other veggies lunch then went to check if the froggy disappeared back into the mountains. I was hoping she did, and I was also hoping she didn't.

Well, there she was still hopelessly hopping while the temperature was below minus the night before and as the winter was approaching. It was probably wrong decision, but I decided that she will die the same night frozen, and she missed her chance to sleep in the winter because she was too hungry. To justify my motive to keep her...

I finished my bottle of pet bottle green tea, and chucked her into my pet bottle to bring her home.

2 years later, she is still here with us. Last 2 Springs and an Autumn, the Biscuits vote for her to leave us or not, and obviously still she hasn't left us. I think next spring we will let her go finally but more we keep her it gets harder to go. It's not easy life for small froggy like her to survive.

Japanese Tree Frogs eats insects. And only insects. Whenever weird farm insects comes our of the cabbage I buy, she gets her special treat but otherwise she eats turtle food. We used to move the turtle food around to make it look like caterpillar, but it changed to just a spoon in front of her face then now turtle food just dumped in a plactic case. She eats whenever she feels like eating and when it's empty, I clean her box and put more food...

It's amazing how the frog learnt that non moving green pellets are food... Next Spring she will have to go through a lot of training to get her back to the nature, we will need to find a place with easy prey for her to get back to the wild side...

Well, Isn't she s cute chilling on the plant? She doesn't hop away when she is full. She is content, she will even chill on my finger...

アマガエルのカサぴょんです。毎年春と秋に逃しに行こうと思い、逃したら死んじゃうんじゃないかと思いにがせず２年。来年の春には野生に帰そうと思っています。が！初めは亀の餌を少しふやかした偽芋虫を芋虫っぽく動かして食べてたのに、今はかごの中の放置した餌を勝手に食べるレベルに成長し手はかからないのですが野生に帰すのが不安になるレベル。

ペット化成功しておりますが、とっても美形のカサぴょんなので是非子孫を残して欲しいと思っています。

寿命は５年前後らしいので、早く野生に帰さなければいけません。カサぴょん、ご飯食べたあとは指の上で目をつぶって仮眠をとってくれちゃったりするのでなかなか手放す勇気は出ませんが春にはお別れ予定です。因みにこの前肢が丸まってるポーズのときは満足してて全く動きません。かごの掃除中リビングで放置で仮眠中です。

カサぴょんと過ごす最後の冬（予定）、たくさん写真もとって思い出残そうと思います。（春にはなして秋に探しに行こうかと思ったりもします。餌さえ置いてれば寒くなれば帰ってきそうで・・・。）

こんな可愛いアマガエルですが、体液に毒があるようで触ったあとそのまま目を触ることが内容にお気をつけください！