Frog in my garden. Evict or not?

spo2

I would move him on - just because I would be terrified of stepping on him if I was outside (especially in the dark!)

emilybc

What you might like to do is cut a little hole at the bottom of one of your fenceposts so that he can get in and out - somewhere not visible from your house for aesthetic reasons.

It's good practice as it means wildlife can access your garden - particularly hedgehogs, who are massively in decline at the moment!

Wassa123

I’ve seen many a frog on my land. No idea how they got here though.

nickcc

Found loads of frogspawn in our garden one year, Daughters wanted to save it so moved it to a few large buckets. When it turned in to tadpoles we fed them with fish food, we eventually ended up with a garden full of noisy baby frogs, fortunately we also had a large fish pond so frogs more than happy. I also understand that relocating frogspawn is against regulations as it can spread diseases, so dumping it in your local duck pond is not allowed.

JohnB47

I'm of the impression that a creature that has decendants many millions of years older than mine is perfectly capable of finding its way around, despite the piffling barriers we humans place in his/her way, You need to override your natural need to 'save' this creature and leave it alone.

robatwork

Kiss it....

Davesnave

robatwork wrote: »

Kiss it....

Just be careful. If it turns into a smart, princely-looking gentleman, you may need more than a bucket to relocate him!

tori.k

He will be fine, I have quite a few here, but do provided a woodpile corner for them i have a 6ft walled garden and gates next door has the pond so they must happily make there way between the two as I've never had piles of froggy bodies lying around.
Just be careful when you cut the grass for the first time, it's horrible if you catch one with the strimmer.

andrewf75

As others have said its a good idea to have a hole under your fence for animals to get through. Ideally make it hedgehog sized.

sillygoose

Relocate!

When we bought our house it had a corner pond they bred in every year we had a lawn-carpet of noisy frogs everywhere, lawn, paths you couldn't move without treading on them. The racket used to keep us awake at night.

So we removed the pond but for years after they kept coming back the same, they don't need open water, they laid plenty of spawn in very damp soil even, plant pots, all over.

After a few years of relocating bucket loads every night they were stopped for good. Oh what fun.