Toad Smashing

So, not sure if i've posted this before, but my yard is infested with frogs and toads. They are freakin' everywhere. These little critters are the size of a dime and can be found everytime you take a step in my yard.

Shelly and Carly love it...they collect em' and put em' in the whellbarrel in the garage to torment them till' i make them release em' back to the yard (besides the one big green "slimey" one i found...that one terrified them). Anywho, We've come across DOZENS and DOZENS of these...literally. So, today i'm going through the yard and come across another one...no surprise there..so call to shelly, she comes over and picks it up and puts in the whellbarrel.

Sooooo a few mintues pass and it's time to go in..i tell her to release the toad again..which she does...then, a moment later i look over and see her TAKING A ROCK AND SMASING IT ON THE TOAD!! I say "shelly, what are you doing that for???!!!" She said "i didn't like that toad...it was bugging me."

As a young man who as a boy had more then one misadventure with another creature, i can understand a reaction to that. HOWEVER, as a parent, Shelly needed to learn right from wrong. I came down on her hard.

LONG talk about how that was wrong and how it's not right to kill other living creatures and after 30 minutes of her crying listening to me chew her out..it sunk in. SOOOO...tonight, she has to say her prayers and ask God to forgive her....consequently, i don't think this will happen again....