Dog owners in parts of Australia know the dangers of the Cane toad, a toxic green jumper that, if consumed, can kill a dog in as little as 20 minutes.

So when a three-year-old pooch named Bella accidentally swallowed one while scarfing down "pies and pasties" in the back yard of her owner, a rugby league player named Jackson Crews, Crews immediately called an animal hospital.

"I went to feed the dogs some left over pies and pasties,'' Crews said. "I threw them on the grass and as I did I noticed a cane toad. Bella saw it and thought it was one of the pies. She swallowed it whole."

Crews, as instructed, took Bella to the animal hospital, where they injected her with a drug to make her vomit, according to a Northern Territory article

"She vomited a lot of pies and pasties but nothing else came up," Crews said. Eventually, after about 40 minutes had passed since toad consumption, "they gave her another needle and she spewed up the cane toad.''

Both dog and toad survived the episode, as you can see in the Associated Press report above. The toad is being kept at the animal hospital where staff have named it "Spew."

Scientists believe hundreds of dogs and cats in Australia's Northwest Territory have fallen victim to the cane toad's deadly toxins. The toads release a poison when under stress and can kill a large dog within minutes.

Crews said it was probably Bella's greedy nature that had saved her life: "She swallowed it whole - that's probably why she survived.''