@SP Body Copy:Tommy and Molly Knecht’s Grandma gave them a unique Easter gift in 2010. “It was really cool because it was our first pet,” said Molly, 6. “Definitely — I just love frogs,” agreed Tommy, ...

Yes, you read the title correctly — I grew up with an African dwarf frog as a pet. Not a dog, cat, hamster or bunny … but a small, 3-inch-long, brownish-green aquatic African dwarf frog. It was winter ...

A red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) climbs a branch at the Montibell wildlife reserve, about 21 km (18 miles) south of Managua, June 22, 2011. REUTERS Pet frogs associated with a nationwide ...

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Pet frogs may look cute in an aquarium, but they can also harbor nasty germs that can make you sick. The teensy amphibians are being blamed for a multistate salmonella outbreak that already has ...

A four-year survey of a strange salmonella outbreak in children found that the culprits appear to be pet African dwarf frogs, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

ATLANTA – A California company has resumed selling a kind of pet frog that caused salmonella illnesses in more than 240 people, most of them children. And federal health officials are not happy.