Posting here for help - just found a large toad in my garden

[MollysMummy2010]

Do I need to do anything? No ponds nearby and two local cats are trying to play with it. Will they eat it? Should I do anything or just leave it to it?

Ok so if it is a frog would it be heading towards a pond or somewhere that it knows? Mor concerned abut the cats killing it but think I have seen them off. It was jumping rather than walking.

Frogs can scream.

Making them even more horrifying.

One of your neighbours probably has a pond. Just keep the cats away from it.

It is a frog. Here's a link to what toads are like. www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/other-garden-wildlife/amphibians-and-reptiles/common-toad/

Just get the cats off it and leave it alone.

Frogs screaming is so weird, like a deflating balloon

Deffo a frog. These are a couple of toads I saw last week, much wartier and fatter.

(Toads also tend to walk, so if it's hopping you know it's probably a frog

No ponds other than in park half a mile away or bushy park which must be at least a mile and a half to water in other direction.

Just it’s where I am...

Outed ffs phone...

We have a few frogs living in our compost heap. As long as they have somewhere to hide and access to slugs for dinner, they're happy. Yours is a beauty!

Book a night in a spa hotel, ditch the kids on dh and call 999 to log it.

Reminds me of Jeremia (turned be female so dropped the "h") who came to our garden for 8 years running to lay(?) her frogspawn. We have loads of small frogs year after year up at the polytunnels but Jeremia preferred the washing line. She was quite approachable. I've missed her the last couple of years. Your frog needs a name op!

That's a frog for all the reasons people have given

Toads do not need ponds. That's frogs. No. Both frogs and toads are amphibians from the word for "both" - ie they can breathe in both water and air. Both toads and frogs breed and lay spawn in ponds, and their larvae (tadpoles) start by having gills and live in water. But adult toads and frogs leave the water and live and hunt on land. Frogs may spend more time near water but they can be found a long way away from it - for example on damp moorland.

@potsofjoy - did your pot fall over all something? I am trying to help a presumably lost frog/toad?

Cats don’t eat them but they will catch them and play with them. My cat used to bring them into the house when we had a pond and they made an awful squealing noise. Try and keep it away from the cats if you can.

potsofjoy did your pot fall over all something?

I've learned an awful lot about frogs and toads and the differences between them from this thread.

Now I'll never confuse them. Fascinating stuff.

You're lucky, I'd love to see a toad in my garden.

A frog eh?
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