What kind of snake is this?

[Bird]

I've wondered why we have more toads this year. Every time I mow or use the string trimmer, I'm afraid I'll kill one or more, and I really don't want to kill them since I assume they eat insects. One day last month, I went for a walk with the dog, and in a mile and a quarter walk around my neighborhood, I counted at least 6 toads that had been run over and flattened in the street. Our chihuahua likes to go out and watch the toads in the yard just about dark. She'll touch one with her nose just to make it hop, but she won't try to hurt one.

 

[Tig]

Texasjohn you made me laugh out loud. I hope the fall did not hurt.
We have an abundance of toads this year. We also had a wave of tree frogs. I saw more tree frogs on my front porch one night than I have seen in my entire life.

 

[RobJ]

Our chihuahua likes to go out and watch the toads in the yard just about dark. She'll touch one with her nose just to make it hop, but she won't try to hurt one.

That's funny, our mini dachshund is a real hunter with that nose that is non stop. Snakes, mice, squirrels. She'll tear up the flowerbed looking for something.

But toads get her. I guess the sweat something, after mouthing a toad, she'll get the white, thick, foam in the mouth. She never learns and keeps going after them.

 

[Tig]

But toads get her. I guess the sweat something, after mouthing a toad, she'll get the white, thick, foam in the mouth. She never learns and keeps going after them.

A toads defense mechanism is to release poison from glands on the side of their heads/shoulders. I do remember hearing about two drunks who became comatose after licking toads like in the Amazon tribal ritual they saw on National Geographic.

 

[wushaw]

That's funny, our mini dachshund is a real hunter with that nose that is non stop. Snakes, mice, squirrels. She'll tear up the flowerbed looking for something.

But toads get her. I guess the sweat something, after mouthing a toad, she'll get the white, thick, foam in the mouth. She never learns and keeps going after them.

My Jack Russell is the same way, she just can't let something live no matter how bad they taste or make her feel.
Brittany is much smarter.

 

[Bird]

I'd heard that if a dog eats a toad, the dog will foam at the mouth. There was even an episode of Gunsmoke that had a dog foaming at the mouth because of that, but it made Festus think it was a mad dog.

I've never seen our little dog mouth a toad or foam at the mouth, but then she just wants everyone and everything to play. She's even brought us baby birds that fell out of the nest but she won't hurt one.