Dollar Store Pet
They just don’t make frogs like they used to. And they don’t make dollar stores like they used to, either.
Our friend Soma Mukherjee created this video for Wombat Day, October 22, 2012. You can read her post and see the video on Soma’s Wombat Day post.
Wait, I thought it was okay to make fun of the dead after a little bit of time “passed away.”
Let’s see, who could we make fun of?
Not Hoppy! He was my friend!
I guess now you should call him Floppy. Opps, too soon? 😛
Whaaa!!
I’m sure he’s hopped-on to greener plastic pastures…
I hope Hoppy has.
But can he be revived?
I gave Hoppy mouth to mouth, but it didn’t help!
I hope that you had him
the right way around Fraz 🙁
I know his head from his tail! Sheesh!
I think hoppy out grew that tail a long time ago.
Hoppy was a tadpole frog who never grew up!
Never grew up? I seem to have that same problem. brb, I’m going to look for my tail.
Like a ghosts tale?
Sometimes you forget where you got stuff. Bwahahahahahaha.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
Hoppy was real to me!
I guess there are some things that are worse than being green!
Poor Hoppy!
Hoppy can’t be dead, Fraz! Plastic lives forever! 🙂
I hope you’re right!! Maybe he’s just hibernating early.
Agree with Mariake! Your Hoppy is same with our Nyunyu 🙂
He probably is!
They don’t make plastic like they used too. At least he won’t decompose so you can still carry him around for the next 10,000 years Fraz.
Great video Soma
I never thought of that! Hoppy can be with me forever!
You could have Hoppy taxidermied? He might make a nice purse 😉
Or a pair of jazzy socks? 🙂
Hoppy’s my friend!!
or squeaky Crocs?
Nooo!!
What??!!
Okay give Hoppy a few wine gums, the froggy friendly one’s 🙂
It might revive him 🙂
I shoulda thought of that!
Well I stuffed a few wine gums in his mouth, but he doesn’t seem any better.
are you sure it’s dead and not just sleeping????
Hoppy might be just hibernating. I don’t know now!
Frogs are not much for the cold.
When we played out in the snow, Hoppy went all stiff.
Cold blooded animals freeze solid pretty quickly…
He warmed up pretty fast in a glass of warm milk, though.
Perhaps, you could put him in a sink of warm water?
With a palm tree and some sand and a beach towel and a little rock and a froggy house. . .
Milkshakes are good for warming frogs up, heated gently with some added fudge makes it taste better, for him I mean 🙂
If Fraz is going to take him to the beach, he will need one.
I’ve never had a warm milkshake before! It’s sort of like thick hot fudge chocolate!
Hoppy’s still not hopping, though.
Maybe I could take Hoppy to a tropical beach. I think I need a holiday from school, anyway.
When do you have fall break, Fraz?
Fall break? We don’t have a fall break. We have a spring break.
Here, most of the schools are out for fall break (like spring break, but in October) and for Thanksgiving (which is next week). In the spring, they have spring break and some places have another week as well.
I want to move down there! We get one day off for Thanksgiving! And a couple of weeks for Christmas. But no fall break!
The minimum here for Thxgvg is three days…
Our Thanksgiving is Monday, so we only get one extra day off for it. I think we should celebrate your Thanksgiving, too! The more holidays the better!
Ours is Thursday…W-T-F-S-S. One of our most traveled weekends.
Maybe I could sneak down there and go to school with Little V!
Plastic to plastic, dust to dust.
Not for Hoppy!
Beware of plastic zombies coming near you.
You think my frog is a zombie frog??
It is the right colour 🙂
Hoppy doesn’t eat brains, though.
Yet.
I’m hoping never!
If he becomes a zombie frog, he will.
Maybe I could get Hoppy an anti zombie vaccine.
Who else do you know who knows voodoo?
I think Andro would probably know! Or know who to get!
Voodoo as your told Fraz 🙂
LMAO!
Am I in voodoo doo-doo?
You should never feed them the day you bring them home. wait a couple of days then feed them.
But I didn’t want Hoppy to starve!
That frog has seen better days 🙂
I think he has.
Did you carry him that way? I mean before…
I didn’t used to!
I should hope not.
When he’s all stiff and dead, it doesn’t seem to mater.
This is a great cartoon Peter, but then all of your cartoons are brilliant 🙂 I only just saw your comment on my last nutty video, I hardly go on there, so I hope that you didn’t think I was being rude? 🙁 Okay time to dish out the pancakes, who wants the chocolate fudge with Mars Bar topping? 🙂
No, not at all Andro. It’s hard to keep up sometimes.
I think you could probably interest a Wombie or two with your pancakes.
Yes as soon as anyone mentions pancakes there is a queue of Wombies before even finishing off the sentence 🙂
It’s almost as bad as mentioning wine gums! If you want any pancakes for yourself, you’d better make them in silence.
It’s okay Frazzie. Just put him back in his little aquarium and he will go back to being as lively as he was before. 🙂
But that’s the problem! Hoppy hasn’t been too hoppy lately!
But if he’s plastic, was he even hopping before?
That’s just an evil rumor!
lol….sorry Fraz. 🙂
That’s OK. Everyone seems to like making fun of my poor Hoppy.
Awww….how about if I get you a new Hoppy?
That might make me feel better.
Now he’s gotta help him bury it. 🙂
Bury Hoppy?? Never!
Plastic = dead. Fraz is right 😉
Poor Hoppy.
Even plastic has feelings. I mean, my little army men sure felt the heat of the sun through a magnifying glass when I was little.
Magnifying glasses are cool! Or maybe they’re hot.
Hey…Twink, even doll has to be treated nicely!! We love our new stuffed turtle, Nyunyu…you should show some respect to Fraz’s frog
Yeah, just because he’s stuffed or plastic doesn’t mean he doesn’t have feelings!
Fraz, if he is just hibernating, why not bury him in the mud until spring? That is what all frogs do to stay warm in the wild.
You think that might work? What if I just bury him in the dirty clothes hamper? It should be warm in there.
It would until Twink washes him…
Oh yeah. Maybe I could bury him in the attic with the old junk no one ever moves.
That would work. Does it stay warm in the attic?
Pretty warm! I play up there all the time!
That would be a good place for him to hibernate. If it gets warm enough, he can be tricked into coming out of hibernation early.
Like maybe by Christmas? A live Hoppy would be a good Christmas present!
Either the attic or some warm water. Just be sure to keep his head up so he does not drown when he warms up.
That wouldn’t be good! Maybe I’ll put Hoppy on a little bed or hammock.
Maybe a snorkel and mask will be a good idea, he already has the flippers so it will be a matching set 🙂
He can borrow Fraz’ scuba tank from your comic 😉
That’s a good idea! Hoppy can be the world’s first scuba frog!
Soma, Little V loves the music for the video! She came by and asked a bagillion questions and wanted me to go to YouTube to find her some more. <3
Be careful you don’t stumble
over any of my crazy offerings 🙁 lol
She already has. 🙂 She likes the vampires at your space. I wonder where she gets her love of the wolves…
Everybody likes wolves! They’re cool!
I know I think they are!
That’s ’cause you’re cool too!
Thank you, Fraz. You are so sweet.
🙂
Aww Fraz, I understand how you feel. I got Cici a pet frog at the dollar store and it only lived a day too.
Little Bear got one of those frogs, too. I am still finding microbial beads everywhere…
The one I got didn’t have those it it.
I did wash one in my washer once though and it broke open…that was a mess.
Nice to see you, Red! 🙂
I, too, am glad you are back 🙂 <3 I cannot imagine one in the washer. Ugh.
It was a mess.
I don’t think doggies should have froggies!
Beau did not get one. Only Little Bear and Little V (although she got a black widow instead of a frog).
I got my Bears and Beaus mixed up!
Beau would rather chase the black butterflies. He does not seem to mind the tree frogs. They stick themselves on the bedroom window.
We don’t have any tree frogs here! They’re pretty cool!
I will have to try and snap some pictures for you. We have one that loves Little V’s bedroom window. He eats the baby grasshoppers.
I’d like to see them! Maybe the pictures would wake up Hoppy!
Me too.
It was a toy frog, Fraz, but Cici killed it in one day. 🙂
Little froggy sure didn’t last long.
A day??!! Poor froggy!
Yes, the most, not all, but most of the doggie toys are not made very well at the Dollar Tree. And Cici is under 3 lbs so that really ought to give you an idea as to how poorly some of them are made.
Cici is small but dangerous! At least to dollar store toys!
She thinks she a Great Dane. 😆
Maybe she’s a small one!
She behaves like it at times. 🙂
I’m glad she likes me!
Of course I like you, Fraz! You and I are the youngest of our families and have to stick together. I would never bite you except gently out of play, but you give me a chew toy to play with and I’ll tear it up.
Wild wombats like to bite each other for play, too. So do I sometimes.
We should form a Youngest is Bestest club!
That’s a good idea, Fraz. We can make it a club with with no adults allowed too…make our own rules.
Yep, no adults!
Papoe should join us too!
I really liked the video Soma made for Wombat day. 🙂
The video was very good, but Soma seemed to mysteriously disappear after making it!
I know, I haven’t heard from her in a while and I went to her site to compliment her video last night after seeing here again, and that post is still her most recent post. I hope she didn’t get a bad fever again.
I was a bit worried too, but I just got an email from her. She’s just taking a break and will be back next week.
Glad to hear that. 🙂 Thanks for telling me.
🙂
Poor Fraz. Don’t let ’em get you down. I think Hoppy will be just fine. He just needs a little tender loving care!
Yeah, I think so too. Well I hope so. I think he might just need a little warming up. Twink wouldn’t let me put him in the oven, though.
That’s a good thing!!
Well I just wanted to warm Hoppy, not cook him!
I’m with you, Fraz.
I’m truly sorry.
I knew you’d understand, Cha! Thanks.
cute!… my daughter gets really attached to her toys too.
Hoppy was my friend.
omg do you know what happens when you make fun of dead frogs..they comeback as zombie frogs..eeks Fraz be careful
Thanks Peter 🙂
you are awesome 🙂
Zombie frogs?? No, not Hoppy!!
For posting your video here? You’re the one who’s awesome for taking the effort to make it, Soma!