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PAW’S CORNER FROGS (continued) Answer on page 8
By Sam Mazzotta Answers on Page 7
SOCIAL MEDIA A BAD release a bad tasting poison that would make
IDEA WHEN REHOMING PETS the snake spit you out. Maybe you could tickle 1. Does handling a toad cause warts?
the snake’s nose and make it sneeze. Or maybe 2. Do frogs have ribs?
DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I read about Sherrie’s you’d cause the snake to yawn, giving you the
dilemma in trying to rehome her grandmother’s cats. break you need. This is the method used by the Answers on page 7
Should she maybe put a notice in the newspaper African clawed frog. The skin of this amphib-
or on Facebook that the cats need a good home? -- ian contains a compound that triggers uncon- 1. HUMAN ANATOMY: How many miles of
Gerry O., via email trollable fits of yawning and gaping in snakes. blood vessels does the average human have?
Furthermore, the snake’s behavior resembles 2. GEOGRAPHY: What degree is assigned to the
DEAR GERRY: On the surface, it seems like a good involuntary muscle spasms of people who International Date Line?
idea. But there are some dangers involved in rehoming suffer from Parkinson’s disease. Scientists are 3. MOVIES: Which Looney Tunes character’s
cats using these routes. In fact, many publications and hopeful that this discovery may lead to a better catchphrase is “You’re despicable”?
some social media sites -- most notably, Facebook -- understanding of the disease. 4. ADVERTISING: What was the name of the
do not allow posts about pets being available for free grocery owner in the Charmin bath tissue ads of the
or for sale. FAMOUS FROGS 1960s-80s?
The danger for pets is that they could go to a home • Mark Twain popularized frog jumping con- 5. U.S. STATES: What is the only state to have one
that’s not going to meet their needs, where they may tests in his story “The Celebrated Jumping syllable in its name?
be abused. They may not even go to a home -- dogs, Frog of Calaveras County.” Every year in May, 6. CHEMISTRY: What is the only letter that
puppies and even kittens have been obtained this way residents of Angel City, California, stage a doesn’t appear in the periodic table?
by promoters of illegal dog fights, or by others with frog-jumping contest. How far can a frog jump? 7. MYTHOLOGY: How many gods and goddesses
bad intentions, where they meet a terrible end. Actually, frog jumps are not measured on a per- were said to live on Mount Olympus?
For humans, the danger with rehoming via the internet jump basis, but by totaling the distance covered 8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president was the
is that the person they’re meeting may be setting them in three consecutive jumps. Rosie the Ribiter, last to serve without a college degree?
up as a target. Whether to rob them directly or initi- a “basic pond-variety frog” jumped 21 feet, 5 9. LITERATURE: Celie is a character in which
ate a con job to get even more money out of them, the 3/4 inches (6.5 m) in 1986 to capture a national 1982 novel?
danger is real. record. Another frog named Ex Lax made a 10. TELEVISION: Which musical TV drama takes
The best ways for Sherrie to get the word out about single leap of 17 1/2 feet (5.2 m) for a single- place at William McKinley High School?
needing to rehome the cats is to talk directly to friends jump world record.
and relatives, let the veterinarian know and contact • The frog which holds the world record for (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
the local shelter. More information can be found by longest jump relative to its body size is the
searching for “rehoming your pet” at the national Hu- South African sharp-nosed frog. Although it is
mane Society website (www.humanesociety.org). only 3 inches (7.6 cm) long, it can jump nearly
11 feet (3.3 m) in one leap, which is 44 times
Send your questions, tips and comments to ask@ its body length.
pawscorner.com. • Not all frogs can jump. A frog’s thigh, shin,
and foot are of nearly equal length, to make
(c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. jumping easier. Frogs with shorter back legs
can only hop, crawl, swim, or walk.
Q: What do you call a sad frog?
A: Unhoppy! TOAD ABUSE
• African clawed frogs are very large, some-
“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to times as big as a Frisbee, and they were im-
do it first thing in the morning. And if ported into Australia from their native Central
it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best America to control the cane beetle. They did
to eat the biggest one first.” not control the beetle that was destroying the
-Mark Twain sugar cane crop, because scientists forgot to
note that the beetle is out at day and the toad is
OPEN only out at night. Cane toads took over much of
24 HOURS Australia anyway.
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