Rainy weather brings toxic cane toads — how to keep your pets safe from the lethal invaders

Rainy weather brings toxic cane toads — how to keep your pets safe from the lethal invaders

Let’s hop on a cull. An alligator might eat your pet, but there’s a much sneakier predator lurking out there, waiting to harm your furriest family members — if you live in waterlogged Southern Florida, that is. Particularly during the rainy season, four-legged friends in the Sunshine State are under threat from an invasive species known … Read more

National Park Service begs visitors to stop licking toads to get high

National Park Service begs visitors to stop licking toads to get high

It’s become a toad-al nightmare out west. The National Park Service has put out a PSA pleading with nature-goers to stop licking toads in the wild to get high off their gland-secreted psychedelic substance, 5-MeO-DMT. But toad licking for a ribbeting buzz — once spoofed on “Family Guy” — particularly from the Sonoran desert toad … Read more