If your dog just mouthed or bit a Sonoran Desert toad, act now: rinse the mouth immediately (details below) and call your emergency vet. This is a time-sensitive emergency. Every monsoon season, Tucson emergency vets fill up with dogs that grabbed a Sonoran Desert toad in the backyard. These...

When the first storms build over the Santa Catalinas, Tucson’s wildlife wakes up fast. Rattlesnakes move in search of cooler ground and water, Sonoran Desert toads emerge from months underground, and scorpions hunt the insects the rain stirs up. Almost everything that draws these animals...