My first thought, on opening the garage door:
Oh, look, a toad, jumping from the step…
Until I discerned that this gray smudge of a creature
Scurrying to hide behind my boots was furry and
Evading me like the plague…

Mouse. Rob Powell. CC BY-SA
Mice are better leapers than frogs. Just sayin’.
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