Edited sentence: And the kids of today only have computer games".Australians have a very different outlook on the toads because they grew up with them especially those living in Queensland, Australia.Cane toad golf was very popular.Cats and dogs steered clear of them, they appeared to have no natural predators.If you hit them with a shovel they just jumped away.In my later teens when driving down a country road at night, the road would be covered in toads and the trick would be to line up toads as you veered down the road maximizing the number that were squashed under your front driver’s side tire.In the 1960s there was no concept of being kind to cane toads.One Australian said "at night the toads would mass in the back yard chasing insects attracted by the lights.Shooting them with an air gun appeared to have no effect.The worst experience was tip toeing across the back yard occasionally stepping on a toad.There was a distinctive satisfying thump as you hit one.There would be one toad per square foot of yard.They have no redeeming features.They were very difficult to kill.This is just one person's view but it seems that it is shared among many Australians.Unattractive, large, poisonous and crowding out the green frogs