Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Just a warning for anyone thinking of buying this kit: these things live for ever. How do I know? Well, here's my Grow-A-Frog story: My grandma bought me a Grow-A-Frog kit for Christmas when I was 6 years old. I ordered the tadpole, it turned into a frog, it was the coolest thing in the entire world for about three months, and then I promptly stopped caring. A few years later my parents ordered the larger tank and it came with another frog. "Cool, free frog!" I thought, and promptly went back to not caring. Long story short, one of the frogs died about three years ago and the other one is still alive. I really don't know if it was the original frog that died or the second one and I really don't care because I stopped paying attention to the ugly beasts by the time I was 10. "That's not too bad," you might think. "I'd be happy to buy my child a pet that will last a few years." A few years...yes. That would be wonderful. However, the Christmas wherein I received my first Grow-A-Frog kit happened to be the Christmas of 1990. I am now pushing 30 and this aquatic demon still lives! It has been 20-plus years of ordering their "special" frog food, cleaning out the tank that's constantly collecting a brown mold from God knows what, and listening to the stupid things make their creepy mating call that sounds like squeaky floorboards. Want to give your 6 year old anxiety issues? Put a frog in his bedroom that makes a sound like somebody is slowly creeping toward his bed at night. The worst part is that my poor mother, now in her 70's, continues to feed, clean, and care for the one wretched thing that continues to survive because she's too much of a saint to let it's miserable existence end. Looking for a cool pet that your kids can watch grow and learn from? Buy them a puppy. We've acquired and laid to rest two dogs and two cats in the time that these horrible, horrible immortal frog beasts have cursed us with their presence.