M - When Tracy told me about her daughter’s adopted amphibian friends, it made me smile. As a kid, I raised polywogs every spring. I would well up when the little guys sprouted legs and would hop off to a life of dining on crickets and avoiding speeding cars when crossing the road. Raising them prepared me to be a parent. Once you’ve diapered a polywog, a human child is a piece of cake. Unlike children, polywogs leave the house for good at 2  months old. They never call asking for money and they rarely return to move back in to live in your basement. Polywogs are the quintessential perfect pets. They don’t eat much, don’t shed and you can clean up their dropping with a Q-tip. They are loyal, obedient and are fun to play with in the bathtub. I salute you, Tracy, for adopting these future frogs. Have you hugged a polywog today?.