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OT? Keep finding dead frogs
On the front path and driveway. Seem to be fully grown, no bits missing, no
obvious injuries just dead and still clammy. I've found 6 so far. I'm not near any kind of "frog habitat" that I'm aware of, but I do know we have foxes around at night. Long story short, the front garden (or the air?) is the only possible way for them to end up where they do and the front garden has a pavement and road to the front, and same to one side. I've never seen a live frog in the garden, they just keep turning up dead although they look alive and I make sure I poke them to be sure. Either I've upset the French Mafia, or there's some other explanation. Anyone got any idea? My money is on the foxes or cats, but I just can't see any injuries on them. |
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OT? Keep finding dead frogs
"Chris Hogg" wrote in message news On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:44:26 +0100, "Mentalguy2k8" wrote: On the front path and driveway. Seem to be fully grown, no bits missing, no obvious injuries just dead and still clammy. I've found 6 so far. I'm not near any kind of "frog habitat" that I'm aware of, but I do know we have foxes around at night. Long story short, the front garden (or the air?) is the only possible way for them to end up where they do and the front garden has a pavement and road to the front, and same to one side. I've never seen a live frog in the garden, they just keep turning up dead although they look alive and I make sure I poke them to be sure. Either I've upset the French Mafia, or there's some other explanation. Anyone got any idea? My money is on the foxes or cats, but I just can't see any injuries on them. There is a virus that's killing frogs and other amphibians on a large scale and is causing concern (Ranavirus), but it seems unlikely they'd specifically choose your front drive to expire on. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ear...-of-frogs.html Cat? Probably cat. They're always still "wet" when I find them and not decomposing or fly-ridden so I suppose something must be bringing them here and scaring them to death in the process. I just don't know where they could be coming from, there's a guy a few doors down with a pond in his back garden, but due to the layout of this house and others, it's a pretty convoluted journey all the way around to the front and I'd have expected to see them outside the back door. Perhaps someone on the opposite side of the road has some kind of frog-friendly habitat. I can't imagine any frog being in this particular spot unless he'd been brought here. I thought it may be foxes because I see one running up and down the (fairly busy) road some evenings, plus one morning I came out and found a "nest" underneath the front hedge, something had got hold of a bag of rubbish (not mine, wheely bin is secure) and made a little bed out of carrier bags and used nappies, nice clean-up for me, along with the piles of fox-crap I regularly find. I nearly ran him over one night when I drove home in the dark, swung into the driveway and he was sat in the middle of it. |
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OT? Keep finding dead frogs
"Mentalguy2k8" wrote
On the front path and driveway. Seem to be fully grown, no bits missing, no obvious injuries just dead and still clammy. I've found 6 so far. I'm not near any kind of "frog habitat" that I'm aware of, but I do know we have foxes around at night. Long story short, the front garden (or the air?) is the only possible way for them to end up where they do and the front garden has a pavement and road to the front, and same to one side. I've never seen a live frog in the garden, they just keep turning up dead although they look alive and I make sure I poke them to be sure. Either I've upset the French Mafia, or there's some other explanation. Anyone got any idea? My money is on the foxes or cats, but I just can't see any injuries on them. Cats are either frog catchers or not. I've had 6 cats and none of them have bothered about frogs other than to take a look to see what is moving. Yet a neighbours crazy cat is always catching frogs however he just presents them alive to his staff and they get put back into the pond area to be caught another day. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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OT? Keep finding dead frogs
On 2013-10-19 14:07:56 +0100, Martin said:
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:22:52 +0100, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "Mentalguy2k8" wrote On the front path and driveway. Seem to be fully grown, no bits missing, no obvious injuries just dead and still clammy. I've found 6 so far. I'm not near any kind of "frog habitat" that I'm aware of, but I do know we have foxes around at night. Long story short, the front garden (or the air?) is the only possible way for them to end up where they do and the front garden has a pavement and road to the front, and same to one side. I've never seen a live frog in the garden, they just keep turning up dead although they look alive and I make sure I poke them to be sure. Either I've upset the French Mafia, or there's some other explanation. Anyone got any idea? My money is on the foxes or cats, but I just can't see any injuries on them. Cats are either frog catchers or not. I've had 6 cats and none of them have bothered about frogs other than to take a look to see what is moving. Yet a neighbours crazy cat is always catching frogs however he just presents them alive to his staff and they get put back into the pond area to be caught another day. We had one like that. It did once place a small green dead frog on my wife's pillow. Probably thought it was a prince. ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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