"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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Reel McKoi wrote:
Does anyone know what kills frogs by chewing off all their legs and
leaving the body behind? I suspect a cat. I know herons and snakes eat
them whole. There are no snappers in the ponds because of the nets. What
other than a cat would do this to frogs. We have almost no frogs left and
were once crawling with them.

The smaller 900g pond no longer has a net or fish. It's for lilies and
frogs now... but there are almost no frogs now. :*(

My cat kills frogs in the way described.....usually it is just the guts
left on the doorstep with maybe a leg or two to allow you to identify the
poor victim but not always...

This cat chews all the legs off or just the back legs and leaves the entire
body there. This last frog was still alive with no legs and died in my hand.
I was sick.

..he did bring in a grass snake once and
deliver the entire body onto one of the children's beds at lights
out....of course following the screams lights out extended quite a few
hours afterwards that evening.....

I can imagine! :-O If this cat is killing snakes I'm not finding the
bodies. We have a lot of snakes here due to the rocky wooded area behind
the house. All the neighbors here are sick to death of people dumping cats
instead of taking them to the shelter.

Seriously frogs seem to be quite fickle.....my old water feature/fountain
thingy had at least 4 frogs in residence....my replacement pond only has
two at the moment but it is new.....I would suspect that the changes you
have made to the pond have caused the frogs to decamp for a while - they
or their desendants, or new frogs will probably be back next year if not
sooner....they seem to have a great ability to sniff out water

The numbers were low before we cleaned out the ponds this weekend. I noticed
less frogs at my neighbors stock pond as well, but didn't look in the grass
for dead ones.


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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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