please help me identify this frog/toad!

[Cuba*]

Thanks everyone, thats really good to know. I'm sure he will be ok! So bizarre how the common frog as a species can look so varied, he was the first I'd seen like that for sure!
Thanks again, my mind is at ease now

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by Gill Catton

I have rescued frogs being harassed by my cat (It didn't hurt the frog was seemingly just fascinated/ revolted by it) and it did look just like this and was reluctant to move even with legs in peculiar positions. - Though I have to say I'm not an expert in frog illness!

What happened to the frog after I presume you saw it recover? Im still not sure about the OP it doesnt look normal to me.

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Dogghound

What happened to the frog after I presume you saw it recover? Im still not sure about the OP it doesnt look normal to me.

It happened with more than once - three times I think I've noted this (and definately different frogs because of the sizes) and no I didn't monitor the condition because I generally removed the frog from the vicinity of my cat immediately so that it could get on with its day (well night)without being harrassed. To be honest it didn't cross my mind that they were sick because I had read about them swelling up (and squeaking) as a defence strategy and assumed the not moving much bit was also part of that (certainly a reasonably good strategy against a cat).

It is quite difficult from a photograph I think.

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by Gill Catton

It is quite difficult from a photograph I think.

I agree, it would be best to study the behaviour of the frog.

[~T~]

I saw 2 frogs bloated like that at a campsite when I was doing the West Highland Way a few years back. Saw them late in the evening and in the morning one was dead and the other was not far off it. They seemed sort of paralysed too.