Summer reminder: don’t pick up frogs if you have sunscreen, bug spray, or any other chemicals on your skin that can hurt them on your hands!!! Also, always wet your hands with dechlorinated water (and no soap) first!! Be nice to the froggies this season!
To clarify on this, their permeable skin is how they stay hydrated. You ever wonder why frogs don’t drink water? It’s because they’re absorbing it from their skin.
Basically they’ll be drinking whatever is on your hands when you pick them up. That’s why you always have to wet them, you don’t want the frog to drink anything they’re not supposed to! Whatever would be unsafe for the frog to consume will be unsafe for them to touch.
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