I'm glad to hear you got a young toad. After hearing 6 people or so say in global that they all got killer snakes too, i was beginning to think it was just a placeholder animal until the real mechanics could be implemented. But it doesn't matter anyway. I walked around the wilderness until i got a fight and found out you still can't use pills. And in this case you can't use the new pets either.
I did go to the temple and trained a bunch of genjutsu and taijutsu that had been activated. I didn't get the chance to see if i could train them above level one. I clicked on the Breathless Swallows and saw it was still a blank line like before so i didn't even try to train any taijutsu. Being genin and broke again, i was saving up.