Froglets and What to Do With Them

Have I mentioned froglet sitting at all? oh yeah once or twice, but I'm not bitter. Why would a young adolescent frog like me want to do anything but froglet sitting on a Saturday night? It's not as if there's anything better I could be doing (at least not since the Pixident).


Ok I admit it, froglet sitting is not my top choice of evening entertainment, there's so may of the little tailed croakers! I don't think there are as many as last month, but life is tough in the bog, that's why Mum and Dad won't pick  names until the tales have completely vanished. When  I was little I was fondly known as Froglet Six. I vaguely remember Froglets One to Five but am not really sure what happened to them, I suspect it as something to do with a lack of froglet sitters.

Froglets One to Five

As soon as Mum and Dad hop of for the night they start to hop riot! They won't go to sleep but jump all over the pad, Mum would go mad if she saw them leaping on her best lily and they're always getting into deep water. It's all I can do to keep the numbers up what with the pike and everything.

Luckily I don't have to do it on my own, Newton always comes over to lend a web. Newton's weird, he's an only child (a rare thing in the bog) but he prefers to froglet sit with me than go out to the hop. In fact most Saturdays he sends me a gnat message to ask if sitting is on, and when I send his gnat back with the affirmative, he's round in the flick of a tail.

The froglets love Newton! I don't know why, you'd think all that goth guy liner and silver jewellery (how he doesn't sink I don't know) would scare their tales off, but the second he slides in they all frogpool tackle him! Newton says they are brothers in tail. He then organises a frogpool game, the froglets play subs, Newton is Bull for one side and I'm Bull for the other (see frogpool the whys and wherefores). We play for an hour  I'm terrified the whole time cos a newt playing in a frogpool game, even just a friendly, is strictly against bog law. It's worth the risk though because after an hour of that the froglets are exhausted and we can heard them under the pad for a good nights sleep (them and us!)