Playing With Toxins

 

Now, what do we have here? A sick dog? Yeah, but not sick-Sick as in contamination, genetic problems, accidents or the like. This very sick dog actually is a genuine drug addict. You may ask, how a dog can be a drug addict, and the answer is that he/she loves licking some of these poisonous animals:

I would have thought it takes a fairy tale princess to kiss one of these, and then it's not a frog, but a toad. The idea of "kissing a toad" stems from the Brother Grimm's fairy tale "The Frog Prince" about an unpleasant physical contact that symbolizes endurance: "Kiss the frog who is a bewitched prince and free him from the magic that turned him into an ugly animal. By doing that you gain the true love of a true prince.

Well, part of the unpleasantness of kissing frogs - or toads - is that some of them are quite poisonous. To kiss, or even touch, such a creature may be quite dangerous and is not to be recommended, e.g. as an experiment or a dare.

The sick dog who keeps licking toads is not only "playing with toxins", but with fire, as this foul habit may cost it its life. If a dog or cat licks, bites, etc. a poisonous toad one has to bring it to the vet, but before doing that one should rinse its mouth. 

Dogs don't read fairy tales, making them want to take the chance of kissing a frog to see it turn into a handsome prince, but they may do it to get at the skin secrets of the animal. While these secrets being killers in some toads or frogs they are also very "narcotic", giving hallucinations and all sorts of sensations that some, people and animals, enjoy. I suppose they aren't tasty in the normal sense like e.g. some foods, but they do what narcotics are supposed to do. For instance The Colorado River toad also produces something that's called 5-MeO-DMT, which is a powerful psychedelic. The Cane Toad is very dangerous to animals and should be avoided.

https://hemopet.org/toxic-toads-in-the-united-states/