frogs

[jamaica_dreamin]

Re: frogs

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tulip</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jamaica_dreamin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks.

There is tiled patio just outside the sliding doors. <span style="font-size: 17pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">When it rains I see lots of tiny frogs there.</span></span> There are almost always some frogs in the yard.

How do I know which ones have venom that is poisioness to my dog? </div></div>

I feel like screaming.

I wonder if Georgia does really have frogs. It's been so long since I have seen a frog in the yard that I forgot. Definitely had them in the yard growing up but they were not the little ones but big ole bullfrogs. </div></div>

You are welcome to come to my yard and take as many as you find home with you

[jamaica_dreamin]

Re: frogs

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are you talking about frogs or toads?

Frogs live in the water, have smooth skin and when on land, jump in long leaps. Toads are land creatures, usually with bumpy skin and they just hop slowly and only breed in the water.

Both frogs and toads eat insects and except for those alien poisonous toads that some idiot let loose in Florida, both are totally harmless.

Frogs are extremely extremely sensitive to pollution and are on a long slow decline worldwide so be good to them.
I have two volunteer frogs in my water garden, one of whom croaks every now and then. By the end of last summer I had eight.

Lots of toads too.

I gladly share my yard with a lot of wildlife. They make life more pleasant and interesting.

Every creature is a marvel. </div></div>

I think that they are frogs.

[Tulip]

Re: frogs

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jamaica_dreamin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You are welcome to come to my yard and take as many as you find home with you </div></div>


LOL. Naw,I'm good.

[johnnycakes]

Re: frogs

Just what is it about frogs that you don't like ?

They don't do anything but eat bugs. They don't bite. They don't crap up the yard. They don't usually make a lot of noise unless they are bullfrogs but those are almost always in the water where they live. They are kinda cute in that Kermit the Frog way.

If you are religious then you have to remember that they are, like us, one of God's creations and a miracle of life.

I think of the vast emptiness of the universe and the fact that Earth is a planet that is so rare in that emptiness for its variety of life be it microbe, plant, frog or humanity. In all that emptiness Earth alone has this incredible richness and variety of life.
Understand that and live and let live

Okay, mosquitoes, wasps, hornets, forty legs and anything else that is attacking or threatening you needs killing but even those, if they aren't bothering you, deserve life.

[jamaica_dreamin]

Re: frogs

I have heard that some have a venom that can kill my poision my dog.

[johnnycakes]

Re: frogs

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jamaica_dreamin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have heard that some have a venom that can kill my poision my dog. </div></div>

jamaica_dreamin,

I do not believe that there are any poisonous FROGS in the United States but there are a couple of toads that are.
One is the cane toad which is found in Florida.

Check out Google by typing in &quot;poisonous toads in (wherever you live)&quot; or &quot;poisonous frogs (wherever you live)&quot; .

You can also check with local veterinarians or other dog owners to assess the danger from any toads you may have in your area and the frequency of dog poisoning from them.

[jamaica_dreamin]

Re: frogs

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jamaica_dreamin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have heard that some have a venom that can kill my poision my dog. </div></div>

jamaica_dreamin,

I do not believe that there are any poisonous FROGS in the United States but there are a couple of toads that are.
One is the cane toad which is found in Florida.

Check out Google by typing in &quot;poisonous toads in (wherever you live)&quot; or &quot;poisonous frogs (wherever you live)&quot; .

You can also check with local veterinarians or other dog owners to assess the danger from any toads you may have in your area and the frequency of dog poisoning from them. </div></div>

Ok, thanks.
If they can't harm the dog they can stay.

[Tulip]

Re: frogs

Johnnycakes, I am not saying kill them but excuse me if I can't stomach 100 little ones jumping on my deck. I can't think of a hundred of any creature I'd want jumping on my deck. It's too much. It's overwhelming. Don't congregate at my back door. Spread out!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just what is it about frogs that you don't like ?

They don't do anything but eat bugs. They don't bite. They don't crap up the yard. They don't usually make a lot of noise unless they are bullfrogs but those are almost always in the water where they live. They are kinda cute in that Kermit the Frog way.

If you are religious then you have to remember that they are, like us, one of God's creations and a miracle of life.

I think of the vast emptiness of the universe and the fact that Earth is a planet that is so rare in that emptiness for its variety of life be it microbe, plant, frog or humanity. In all that emptiness Earth alone has this incredible richness and variety of life.
Understand that and live and let live

Okay, mosquitoes, wasps, hornets, forty legs and anything else that is attacking or threatening you needs killing but even those, if they aren't bothering you, deserve life. </div></div>

[johnnycakes]

Re: frogs

[quote=Tulip]Johnnycakes, I am not saying kill them but excuse me if I can't stomach 100 little ones jumping on my deck. I can't think of a hundred of any creature I'd want jumping on my deck. It's too much. It's overwhelming. Don't congregate at my back door. Spread out!



Tulip,

100 frogs is a bit much.
I only have two and they stay in or near the water garden.
I don't know what I'd do with a hundred small ones.
You can only eat frog legs off the big bull frogs.

We're overrun with chipmunks and squirrels this year but only about a dozen chipmunks one of which comes up and begs for sunflower seeds. The baby squirrels keep trying to raid the squirrel proof bird feeder. It takes them many many attempts before they give it up.

We also have about a dozen goldfinches and house finches, many with babies a couple of pairs of cardinals with their babies, a couple of pair of robins with a baby, even a grackle with a baby. There are about three baby woodchucks up the street and the parents are eating up the pumpkin and melon plants so I had to fence them in.

I've only seen one garter snake so far about two feet long.

We feed the raccoons and skunks all the table scraps.

You can send us some of your little frogs.

[johnnycakes]

Re: frogs

Just thought I'd drop back in with this.

We HAD three small green frogs in our water garden.
Remember when I said I'd only seen one garter snake this year. ?
Well the other day I was walking past the water garden and saw what looked like that same snake draped over the rocks at the edge of the water.
His head was obscured by the ferns growing there so I had to angle around to see where his head was and hat he was doing.
What he was doing was trying to get one of the smaller frogs down his throat.

I grabbed him gently by the tail to se if he'd let go but since the frog was halfway in his mouth and not moving, I figured the frog was a goner, I let go of the snake. He swam into the water and out the other side with the frog.

All this to say if you really hate frogs, go out and get a few snakes for your yard.


Today I looked in the water garden and a replacement frog had already taken the dead frogs' place.

That or it was a frog duppy.

[Tulip]

Re: frogs

LOL @ frog duppy.

As for your other suggestion, frogs over snakes for life!