If he was still having relationships with an existing wife who would bead him numerous children, why involve himself in a biga-mouse relationship that would end up on the society pages of the local papers and would bear him a couple of mogs or frice at best.

Some animal mixed marriage offspring are tolerated because people hold some species of animals over their coarser relatives. Doves are thought to be romantic where's pigeons are uncool, probably from leaving their droppings on attempted human relationships and dampening then somewhat.

So what happens when your little turtle dove turns out to be merely a little pigeon toad?.....

Riding on a snail, indeed! While the band at the church keeps playing "Haste To The Wedding' over and over until Froggy finally arrives, no doubt.....