Split from above post...
Noisy non-toys
I arrived back home one evening after a short drive to the shop and didn't bother to turn on the carport light. As I stepped inside in the dark, suddenly I felt something squishy underfoot. At the same moment it let out a loud squeal and growl. Apart from instantaneously doubling my blood pressure and making a certain sphincter muscle pucker at the same time, it caused me to raise my leg in a rapid and exaggerated motion. No sooner did I have my right leg air borne, than something clasped me around my left ankle and began pulling on it as if to bury it in the floor tiles. So down came one foot and up came the other, pretty much simultaneously. I reckon even Michael Jackson would have been impressed with nimbleness of that dance move.
By this stage my mind was racing faster than my pulse, running through the checklist of what the ferk could it be. With a couple of microseconds to spare before I went into panic mode, the light came on, the bell went off and the sensory information was matched up... Frog! A large sized Motorbike Frog had obviously parked itself near the carport door and jumped in once I open it. I had then inadvertently stepped on it. After a brief inspection and judging by its strength exerted in trying to get free, I reckoned it had suffered no real physical damage. It was a bit of a toss up though as to which one of us got the greater fright. So while my breathing rate and adrenalin levels slowly dropped to normal I returned it to it rightful place in the garden... a long ways away from the carport door.
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