Bought for 69 cents: Family discovers toad in salad bag - and takes animal in. Reindl-Wilhelms family from Weißenburg has an unusual pet: the toad Frieder.
Kröterich Frieder is a midwife toad and comes from Nantes in western France. Simply releasing them into the wild is not advisable, as an expert told the BR, because that would endanger the local population. The average life expectancy of such amphibians in the wild in the Reiherbachtal is around five years.