Dog and toad are not friends

Toad's hole. The blue splotch is from slopping paint on a trellis.

The toad eyeballed me when I pulled away the St. Augustine grass and weeds to make way for new planting beds. I eyeballed the toad.

I went back to work, and the toad stayed in its hideaway.

Then Freddie the dog, who had been on squirrel patrol, found the toad. And although the toad disappeared underground or through another exit, for the next hour that hole was the most fascinating hole in the world for Freddie. -- Lana b

Where did it go?