"Pat" wrote in message
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"Reel McKoi" wrote

| As you all now we pulled the net off the smaller 800g+ pond and have no
fish
| in it. It's for plants and frogs and whatever else decides to move in.
With
| the net gone something, possibly a cat, has picked off every frog and
eats
| it's legs off. We find the bodies near the same tree about 20' from the
| pond. There are no more frogs as of last night. We starting to feel
this
| pond is a draw for frogs and something else that feeds on them. This is
a
| real downer. :*(

I'm very sorry about the frogs. But now that they are gone, whatever was
eating them will go away, and may not come back.

BTW I'm a cat person who lived with 9 cats around ponds for many years and
never once saw a cat eat a frog. I don't think they like them.
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We don't know of any other predator that would just chew their legs off and
leave the body. Herons and snakes eat them whole. Snapper turtles don't drag
them out of the water to eat their legs and leave the bodies. There is
nothing else here that does that. I hope whatever is doing it leaves.

My old cat completely ignored the pond and frogs and toads.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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