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Claudee Rowe, who had already lost her Pomeranian after it licked one of the pests, discovered the massive toad in her backyard in Virginia, in Darwin's south-east on Monday afternoon.
"It was just underneath our trampoline, this disgusting big thing," she said. "It was the fattest thing I've ever seen, it was huge. I'd say it's a serving plate size. "I'm from North Queensland and I've seen heaps but I've never seen one that size. My partner and I were making jokes, just what in the hell was this?" Ms Rowe said there were often more cane toads in rural areas and she'd noticed more in the Top End this year after a heavy wet season. "They generally come out at night but this one was out during the day because it was in the shade of the trampoline," she said,