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Recently moved house and we have a tiny water feature (500mm wide x 300mm x 100mm deep).
Me and my little girl spotted not 1 but 3 good sized frogs in it.
We want to keep the little fellas safe and sound, any advice?
Being so small the 'pond' is a bit stagnant but I am loathed to clean it out just incase it frightens them away.
Me and my little girl spotted not 1 but 3 good sized frogs in it.
We want to keep the little fellas safe and sound, any advice?
Being so small the 'pond' is a bit stagnant but I am loathed to clean it out just incase it frightens them away.
Itsallicanafford said:
Recently moved house and we have a tiny water feature (500mm wide x 300mm x 100mm deep).
Me and my little girl spotted not 1 but 3 good sized frogs in it.
We want to keep the little fellas safe and sound, any advice?
Being so small the 'pond' is a bit stagnant but I am loathed to clean it out just incase it frightens them away.
They won't be bothered about the state of the water.Me and my little girl spotted not 1 but 3 good sized frogs in it.
We want to keep the little fellas safe and sound, any advice?
Being so small the 'pond' is a bit stagnant but I am loathed to clean it out just incase it frightens them away.
The best thing to do is just leave them alone.
And don't have/get a cat.
Mr GrimNasty said:
Itsallicanafford said:
Recently moved house and we have a tiny water feature (500mm wide x 300mm x 100mm deep).
Me and my little girl spotted not 1 but 3 good sized frogs in it.
We want to keep the little fellas safe and sound, any advice?
Being so small the 'pond' is a bit stagnant but I am loathed to clean it out just incase it frightens them away.
They won't be bothered about the state of the water.Me and my little girl spotted not 1 but 3 good sized frogs in it.
We want to keep the little fellas safe and sound, any advice?
Being so small the 'pond' is a bit stagnant but I am loathed to clean it out just incase it frightens them away.
The best thing to do is just leave them alone.
And don't have/get a cat.
Mr GrimNasty said:
And foxes kill them for fun too. Leave them to dry to leather on the lawn and then come back day after day for a play/chew until there's only little bits left!
no wonder they were looking at us so suspiciously, looks like they get quite a raw deal.Thanks for the replies, we dont have any pets,we will just leave them be, the kids are thrilled, the wife no so much...
Hooli said:
Don't get a dog either, ours hunts them in the garden every evening.
One of my dogs hunts for them, luckily we dont get many but if she does find one she spends the next 15min foaming at the mouth shaking her head. Not sure if its frogs or toads maybe both that cause that. Mr GrimNasty said:
And foxes kill them for fun too.
Foxes don't kill for fun, they kill out of evolutionary imperative.They tend to kill as much as they can as quickly as they can, take a small amount away and return for the rest when required. But humans find what they have left before they can return so say things like "they kill for fun."
Foxes are very successful as a species. Like humans, they've adapted to live everywhere. There are desert foxes and artic foxes.
When you come out in the morning to find 50 dead chickens, there isn't a fox hiding behind a bush watching you and tittering. It's not fun, it's millions of years of evolution.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Foxes don't kill for fun, they kill out of evolutionary imperative.
They tend to kill as much as they can as quickly as they can, take a small amount away and return for the rest when required. But humans find what they have left before they can return so say things like "they kill for fun."
Foxes are very successful as a species. Like humans, they've adapted to live everywhere. There are desert foxes and artic foxes.
When you come out in the morning to find 50 dead chickens, there isn't a fox hiding behind a bush watching you and tittering. It's not fun, it's millions of years of evolution.
Wrong, they do kill for the fun, the blood lust, the thrill, they are intelligent animals.They tend to kill as much as they can as quickly as they can, take a small amount away and return for the rest when required. But humans find what they have left before they can return so say things like "they kill for fun."
Foxes are very successful as a species. Like humans, they've adapted to live everywhere. There are desert foxes and artic foxes.
When you come out in the morning to find 50 dead chickens, there isn't a fox hiding behind a bush watching you and tittering. It's not fun, it's millions of years of evolution.
Foxes also nick dog toys and play with those too, balls, pullers etc.
Leaving a frog to dry in the open (not stashed) and returning to repeatedly use it as a toy, is not the same as a hen house raid anyway.
Psychotic animal rights vermin apologists spout the garbage you've just regurgitated.
Edited by Mr GrimNasty on Tuesday 26th August 18:58
Mr GrimNasty said:
Wrong, they do kill for the fun, the blood lust, the thrill, they are intelligent animals.
Foxes also nick dog toys and play with those too, balls, pullers etc.
Leaving a frog to dry in the open (not stashed) and returning to repeatedly use it as a toy, is not the same as a hen house raid anyway.
Psychotic animal rights vermin apologists spout the garbage you've just regurgitated.
Actually fFoxes also nick dog toys and play with those too, balls, pullers etc.
Leaving a frog to dry in the open (not stashed) and returning to repeatedly use it as a toy, is not the same as a hen house raid anyway.
Psychotic animal rights vermin apologists spout the garbage you've just regurgitated.
Edited by Mr GrimNasty on Tuesday 26th August 18:58
king LOL you wrote that. Foxes do not kill for fun you complete cretin, they are hunters and kill to survive. It's in a foxes instinct to build up big loads of food. In cases where they have slaughtered alot of chickens this would be down to the fact in the commotion of killing chickens the fox can become confused and panic and bite whatever in site. In the panicked state the fox will forget to go back for the food. Make no bones about it though it's a survival tactic.
The very nature of suggesting that a fox decides to go out and kill stuff for fun is so laughable. Foxes do not possess human nature.
theshrew said:
Hooli said:
Don't get a dog either, ours hunts them in the garden every evening.
One of my dogs hunts for them, luckily we dont get many but if she does find one she spends the next 15min foaming at the mouth shaking her head. Not sure if its frogs or toads maybe both that cause that. Hooli said:
That's what ours does too. I'm told they should learn not to eat them because of the taste, seems not in some cases.
It will be the toads that cause the problem, they have parotid glands at the the side of the head which will release toxins if they are attacked by predators.BarryP said:
Hooli said:
That's what ours does too. I'm told they should learn not to eat them because of the taste, seems not in some cases.
It will be the toads that cause the problem, they have parotid glands at the the side of the head which will release toxins if they are attacked by predators.Mr GrimNasty said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Foxes don't kill for fun, they kill out of evolutionary imperative.
They tend to kill as much as they can as quickly as they can, take a small amount away and return for the rest when required. But humans find what they have left before they can return so say things like "they kill for fun."
Foxes are very successful as a species. Like humans, they've adapted to live everywhere. There are desert foxes and artic foxes.
When you come out in the morning to find 50 dead chickens, there isn't a fox hiding behind a bush watching you and tittering. It's not fun, it's millions of years of evolution.
Wrong, they do kill for the fun, the blood lust, the thrill, they are intelligent animals.They tend to kill as much as they can as quickly as they can, take a small amount away and return for the rest when required. But humans find what they have left before they can return so say things like "they kill for fun."
Foxes are very successful as a species. Like humans, they've adapted to live everywhere. There are desert foxes and artic foxes.
When you come out in the morning to find 50 dead chickens, there isn't a fox hiding behind a bush watching you and tittering. It's not fun, it's millions of years of evolution.
Mr GrimNasty said:
Psychotic animal rights vermin apologists spout the garbage you've just regurgitated.
Edited by Mr GrimNasty on Tuesday 26th August 18:58
I don't know about that, but I do know that anyone with a 7 year old's understanding of basic evolution would spout the same "garbage".
Mobile Chicane said:
BarryP said:
Hooli said:
That's what ours does too. I'm told they should learn not to eat them because of the taste, seems not in some cases.
It will be the toads that cause the problem, they have parotid glands at the the side of the head which will release toxins if they are attacked by predators.
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