Frog in my garden. Evict or not?

inglorius

Better than a frog in your throat I guess

andrewf75

sillygoose wrote: »

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.

What a shame. I'm really trying to get frogs to breed in my pond. Never ceases to amaze me how people actually want rid of wildlife from their gardens especially species which are really struggling.

nickcc

andrewf75 wrote: »

What a shame. I'm really trying to get frogs to breed in my pond. Never ceases to amaze me how people actually want rid of wildlife from their gardens especially species which are really struggling.

The problem I had was that we had filled the pond in due to the risk to our young Grandchildren. As a previous post the frogs still came back and left the frogspawn where the pond used to be so relocating it was essential.

andrewf75

nickcc wrote: »

The problem I had was that we had filled the pond in due to the risk to our young Grandchildren. As a previous post the frogs still came back and left the frogspawn where the pond used to be so relocating it was essential.

Obviously kids are a valid reason not to have a pond, I was responding to the poster who (it sounded like) removed the pond because they didn’t like the frogs!
I found a good solution to the children issue actually. You can get plastic grid things to put over the pond.

Davesnave

andrewf75 wrote: »

I found a good solution to the children issue actually. You can get plastic grid things to put over the pond.

Or you can do what we did and let them fall in under supervision.

They don't do it twice!:rotfl:

Grenage

It's madness how worried parents are that children will end up floating face-down in anything more than an inch of water.

When we sold the last place we had to remove the pond - it was putting many people off. Admittedly it was a bit large for the garden....

Putting one in the new garden was one of the first things I did.

Davesnave

Shallow-edged ponds of the wildlife variety are not very dangerous. Stupid ponds, like barrels sunk in the ground, often are.

I am a nephew short due to one of those.

sillygoose

andrewf75 wrote: »

What a shame. I'm really trying to get frogs to breed in my pond. Never ceases to amaze me how people actually want rid of wildlife from their gardens especially species which are really struggling.

I removed it also because it took up too much room and as previous owners had neglected it it was foul, smelly and in a poor state, never mind drowning, I didn't want the kids to be poisoned.

Don't feel too sad for the poor froggies, we nearly back onto a nature reserve with a myriad of shallow, slow running streams and gullys perfect for them and a lot nicer than the stagnant old cess pit in my garden.

We all came out winners.

DigForVictory

Frog got into the garden & there is some shelter. When food runs out, frog will get out somehow, or get eaten.

(Frog indoors gets relocated to garden stat.)

Awed that you have a cat proof garden.

stator

It's not cat proof, just very difficult for them. I have fencing against every wall that is made of bamboo slats. It won't hold the weight of a cat, they would have to jump clean over it.
I'm not sure a frog/toad could climb it from the inside either. Not sure they'd get the grip on it.