Police Hunt Hallucinogenic Toad Thief - Fri Dec 6,10:10 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police are investigating whether drug addicts raided a pet shop and stole three exotic toads whose warty skin can induce hallucinations when licked.

The animals were snatched from a pet shop near a drug addicts' center in the city of Leeuwarden in the northeast of the Netherlands on Wednesday. "They are an exotic kind of toad that secrete a substance. If you lick them you may get a hallucination, comparable with a trip on LSD," police spokesman Harry Oenema told Reuters.

--And they sell these in a pet shop!?! I bet they were in PETA!