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nevada wardens seize 187 illegal african frogs
Published Sep. 11, 2008"It's not just an ordinary frog!" says Grow-a-Frog's Web site.
It also turns out the mail-order tadpoles are not legal in Nevada and at least 10 other U.S. states, including North Carolina.
Acting on scores of telephone tips from unsuspecting owners of the outlaw amphibians, Nevada game wardens say they tracked down Grow-a-Frog as the source of nearly 200 African clawed frogs they've seized in recent weeks.
The Florida-based Grow-a-Frog, which takes orders over the phone and the Internet, has agreed to pay a $3,600 fine and stop sending the unwelcome guests to Nevada, said Capt. Cameron Waithman, the Nevada Department of Wildlife warden who led the months-long investigation.
Banned as an illegal invasive species, the clawed green creatures that live mostly in the water and grow as large as bullfrogs can destroy entire ecosystems if they escape by voraciously eating native fish and just about anything they can swallow, he said.
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September 11, 2008 1:57 p.m.
Headline reads: Family Childcare Over Run with Illegal Mutant Frogs. Provider Has License Revoked and Sentenced to 10 Years in Jail for Child Abuse
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