Ito's Frog

I would never have known the little creature was there if the ever-vigilant Ito had not told me. She often sits on that windowsill looking out over the garden and keeping an eye on the moths that come to beat on the screen perhaps to express their disdain for my taste in Netflix offerings. I do not place much store in the opinions of moths so I let Ito deal with them which she does by fixing them with a laser stare and plucking at the screen with one or two toenails for the duration of her attention span which doesn't last for long.
But it turned out that there were other life forms taking an interest in my Netflix moths and that these were Out There, where the rubber meets the road so to speak, and it was one of these enterprising souls that Ito was attempting to form a bond with a week or two ago. She was doing this by plucking at the screen right at the bottom and also making a funny little noise. This was so interesting I actually got up out of bed and went over to look. What she had found there was a frog that had somehow found its way onto my windowsill which is located 15 feet above the ground, 8 feet below the eaves, and 3 feet from the closest wobbly twig. I stared at it for several minutes trying to imagine this tiny semi-boneless creature leaping these tremendous distances, then, exhausted by this intellectual excess, flopped back down in front of Netflix to rest.
However it got there it was wasting no time lapping down the smorgasbord of multilegged snacks gathered on my screen. I was so impressed by the very presence of this, no doubt, accidental visitor that I looked it up the next morning. Ito's discovery, it seemed, was a Wood Frog.
I had forgotten all about it by bedtime that night when Ito and I went up to bed for the next exciting installment of Netflix. As usual, I poked through the viewing possibilities while Ito paced back and forth across my feet until she had found the exact geometric center of the bed to stake out as her own and then we settled down to, variously, watch or snooze.
Soon the moths started gathering and then suddenly Ito sprang to her feet, took a shortcut to the window across my face, and there, mirabile dictu, was our impossible frog, oblivious to the ravening amphibiophile a mere screen's thickness way, prattling and strumming the screen.
After that, as one hot, oppressive night followed another we came to expect our new friend and Ito no longer even talked to it. And I stopped wondering how it got there.
But as a reminder never to take anything for granted, one night Ito dashed over to the other window and was staring at the sill. This window is at the back of the house where the terrain drops off abruptly and is directly below the peak of the roof, so it is much further to the ground as well as to eaves, and not a twig anywhere. Therefore it really was impossible that this tiny animal could have jumped from anywhere to get to its current perch among the moths.
It was hard to get a good look at it, partly because it was dark, and partly because Ito refused to budge, but in the end, the greater avoirdupois prevailed and Ito resentfully stepped aside so I could have a good look, and was amazed to see that this lumpy little gourmand was not, after all, our Wood Frog, but rather some kind of toad.
So now I am left to conclude that either we have both a magical frog and a magical toad, or that both of them are able to walk around on vertical surfaces for some distance looking for moths or that there is a prankster in the neighborhood with a very silent ladder who spends his days sneaking around among the deer flies catching frogs and his nights clambering up to people's bedroom windowsills to leave them for some experimental purpose.
Really, it's a tough choice, but I am inclined to go for the magical toad theory and next time I see one or the other I plan to sneak the screen off and catch it quick before Ito gets ideas. Not sure what's next. Do I kiss it and hope a prince emerges? Not much chance a prince would be much use – what I need is a prince who can fix the drains.
I'll discuss it with Ito.