Frogs and the food chain

[VABeachPondGuy]

Recently my wife took the kids out to buy some fish for the pond and they mysteriously started disapearing one by one. I ruled out birds because my yard isn't very heron and egret friendly. No signs of a snapping turtle making it's way into the pond.....just an abundance of bull frogs. We have racoons but they have a lot more convenient food sources so I narrowed it down to the bull frogs. I wasn't sure how many were making themselves at home here but I made it my mission to remove them. It took a few days but when I got the last one the tally was 8. The remaining fish lived happily ever after.

Fast forward a couple weeks. I brought home a mess of tadpoles from a camping trip and made some frogging expeditions into the local countryside. Now I have several cricket frogs, a green frog, a green tree frog, and a pair of leopard frogs. Did I mention that we have an indoor/outdoor cat? She brought one bull frog into the house years ago, unharmed but she lost interest in them after that until I introduced the smaller frogs. Now she's the frigging frog whisperer. In one month she has brought a total of five cricket frogs into the house, all unharmed except one which we found too late.

She picked up a stomach virus of some sort, I'm assuming from mouthing up all those frogs and her frog hunting activities have taken a serious downturn since then. I hope it lasts, lol. We have plenty of less desirable critters around that she should be harassing!

 

[stroppy]

bullfrogs wlll eat small fish . and yes i have a cat that brings frogs home .... he got very poorly after picking up a toad, they give off some kind of poison, and it ended up costing us a lot in vet bills!!, he now leaves toads alone, but sadly i still get lots of bits of frogs around the house

 

[addy1]

I have only seen green maryland frogs, the gray tree ones, and one pickerel. Still have a ton of tads with tiny little legs that just showed up. No bull frogs yet

 

[VABeachPondGuy]

If you value the other frogs in your pond I recommend getting rid of the bulls if they ever do arrive. They will eat anything that fits in their mouths, including smaller frogs. LOL, I had a neighbor complain once that they were eating her dog food!

 

[addy1]

If you value the other frogs in your pond I recommend getting rid of the bulls if they ever do arrive. They will eat anything that fits in their mouths, including smaller frogs. LOL, I had a neighbor complain once that they were eating her dog food!

My other hubby put some bull frogs in our arizona pond, all my neat little frogs were gone really fast. I got rid of them, took them back to the wild ponds they came from.