What to do with a toad?

[sillywoman]

. . or possibly a frog. Just found it in our far-from-water garden being harried by our cat and making very cross squeaky sounds. Have no idea how it got here. Does anyone in Glengarry Rd, Tarbert or Trossachs Rd have a pond - if so are you missing a toad or frog? Failing that, should I just take him to the lake at Dulwich Park & let him go?

[theantiqueman]

You could kiss it a handsome prince may appear.

[sillywoman]

Nah, been conned by that story before ;-)

[jumpinjackflash]

Whip up some batter mixture, pour into a baking tray with aforementioned amphibian. Put in oven on high for 30 mins. Et voila....Toad in the Hole :))

[HonaloochieB]

Hire him out as an Eric Pickles look-a-like?

[daizie]

I have wondered this too . My dog gets hold of them and kills them. If i can get to it fast enough i throw it over the neighbours fence

and the toad

[Captain Scarlet]

I always thought little boys stick a straw up there bum and blow them up?

[its on youtube!]

[Scribe]

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LubeTube, surely?

[aquarius moon]

I think you should just put him back in the garden, when your cat isn't around. I've found toads in my garden & don't live anywhere near a pond. I don't know where they come from, but he is bound to find his way home by himself. Quite often, they just live in damp areas of the garden under stones etc.

[Narnia]

Are toads cleverer than cats, as cats appear to be really stupid given the number that get lost, according to posters here!

[legalbeagle]

I think Aquarius Moon is right. Leave it somewhere in your garden and it'll find its way home. They can travel quite long distances, and they usually hibernate and mate in the same place to it was probably just coming out of hibernation and is quite able to get home on its own. I used to find them in my garden quite a lot. In fact my chickens nearly caught one once but that's a whole other story......

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I rescue the frogs/toads that my cats catch and release them by the pond in the Wildlife Garden on Marsden Road.

[acumenman]

The only time toads enter the water is to lay eggs attached to vegetation, other than that they are in the words of Kenneth Graham's 'Wind in the willows' "nasty dry things".

[Narnia]

Is that good or could that possibly be the local Helmand province for frogs/toads? Are you an American president?

[sillywoman]

Have taken your advice (well, some of it - not the straw up the bum bit. Euwww) and released him back into a dark corner of the garden, well away from cats and foxes - for now. Wish I'd thought of Marsden Rd though, it would've been perfect. Next time.

[Lying Toad]

Judging by the comments above, I'm moving out of E'Dulwich - I dare not even look at the You Tube link.

Toad!

BTW, it took me ages to get from one garden to another, only to be picked up and thrown back there again.

[Ridgley]

I have toads sometimes pop up in the garden, they do find there way home what do you do with a squirrel that taps on your window waiting for food every morning:))

[jumpinjackflash]

Ridgley Wrote:

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> what do you do with a

> squirrel that taps on your window waiting for food

> every morning:))

It's probably on the run from Franklins

[????]

Lick its back and go into an Altered State

[Lying Toad]

OMG, being thrown over walls, battered and cooked, a straw stuck up my other end, and now..... licking my back - Taxi!

TLT

[Lying Toad]

BTW, Frogs taste like chicken! Toads taste like gritty roads, Just don't try me!

Toad TLT