A Lively Visitor

Oh heavens!
2 story's come to mind, a dear friend had a cat that would keep keep bringing frogs in to the house, after a while she was convinced that it was the same frog each time, she said that it had a sort of resigned look on its face!

Then poor DS1, who took his wellies in a bag, ready to go on school trip, and when he went to put them on, found a frog in one of them!

When we had an open coal fire, we kept the coal outside, in a coal bunker. One evening, OH went out to bring a scuttle of coal up to the living room. He chucked a good amount onto the fire but one need piece jumped back off! So he shovelled it up and threw it back on. When it jumped off a 2nd time he looked at it more closely and it was a very large frog! Whilst I was dashing out of the room, OH took it to the kitchen sink, rinsed the coal dust off it and put it back outside. It hopped off into the night, seemingly unscathed!

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070327-monster-toad.html

Cane toads grow to be huge - that one is not the largest recorded by any means!
On a wet evening they like nothing better than sitting on the lawn [eek]

Of course toads migrate. This is a common road sign around these parts:

www.absperrtechnik24.de/Natur+und+Umweltschutzschild+Vorsicht+Kroetenwanderung+uw030.htm

Frogs used to hop through the garage of our previous house every Autumn. We never saw them in the Spring funnily enough. I have no idea where they were going as we didn't have a pond.

Maybe because they're all warty?

Toads are horrible! Frogs are ok.I don't quite know why!

Oh Grey duster thats very yeuk. I have read about that sort of migration. To be caught up in it that way is the stuff of nightmares.

There is something a little bit yuck about the way toads walk. Memories of holidays in France and sitting on the terrace, every night at dusk the toads would come to the terrace. I think the food and candles attracted the flies and the toads knew that.

Many moons ago, we had floor covering in the kitchen which looked like large seaside pebbles. Our daughter was used to walking around in bare-feet, and suddenly, just where she had placed her foot a 'pebble' moved! I have never seen anyone jump so high from a standing position. Yes, it was a frog, and we can only assume the cat had brought it in, and got fed up with playing with it. We are o.k. with that sort of thing, and she just found her shoes, picked up the frog and deposited in the garden.

I don't mind picking up frogs, but there is something about toads...... I remember when we lived in Belgium in 970, driving back in the dark along a narrow lane that bordered some woods near our house and in the head lights it looked as if the path was moving in front of us. A whole host of toads of all sizes seemed to be migrating - if toads migrate. There were too many to count. Unfortunately, there was no room to turn the car round and go back, so we had to drive through, and I'm afraid over, them. I felt quite sick. DH did too; he had to hose the tyres down!

Hopehope - that's strange, we had the same thing the last 2 nights. It looks like the same one we had last year at this time. He/she used to jump into the pet's water dish. Each time we put it into a bucket and returned it to he pond.
Any idea why they would want to come into the house? Our door is usually open at this time of the ear.

I couldn't pick one up!

I am fine picking them up. I love them. Had it been a spider I would have died on the spot !

[gasp]
I startled one in the garden once - well, I don't know who was more startled, it or me.
I did manage to get it into a bucket and transferred it to a far corner of the garden as we were digging up the garden bed where it lived.