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Pets & Animals > Reptiles & Amphibians Methods of keeping a pet frog: 6 of 7

My first pet frog was a green tree frog named Kermit. Although it is generally hard to determine the sex of a frog, I quickly found out that my frog was a boy because he barked. Yes, barked - like a seal. I later learned that only the male tree frogs bark - in the wild they do this to call out to a mate. We was a lone-frog, and living in Chicago, I can only assume the closest potential mates for him lived a few miles down the street at the nearest pet store, but he didn't give up. Every day, he barked and barked. While I, as a kid, found his barking very amusing, my mother did not. It trul...
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