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how do i stop frogs coming in garden - i am terrified

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yentil · 03/05/2008 21:51

just moved to a new house and had a pond filled with concrete then turfed over. now seeing frogs (i guess from hibernating over winter) and I am terrified of them, which means i am now scared to go into garden. please help what do i do. how many will come up and from where.

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maidamess · 03/05/2008 21:55

No advice but am fellow frog phobic! I know EXACTLY where you are coming from! I think frogs will be in your garden whether you had a pond there or not. Just be on your guard all the time!

expatinscotland · 03/05/2008 21:56

You've frogs already?

We've only got tadpoles.

fleximum · 03/05/2008 21:57

Frogs will always return to their original pond to spawn each year. Don't know any way of preventing them but hopefully now you've got rid of the pond they will get the hint fairly quickly and go again.

pointydog · 03/05/2008 22:01

Maybe this could be an opportunity to get over the phobia.

If not, make sure there's no water in your garden and they'll bugger off.

Frizbe · 03/05/2008 22:01

Hate to tell you this, but frogs will come back, year after year to their old pond, even if its gone, my friends garden used to get loads of them, and the pond was long gone there.Sorry.

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yentil · 03/05/2008 22:11

oh no, how many can i expect to see. my DH took one away today and left it in local park. should we just kep taking them away

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expatinscotland · 03/05/2008 22:12

i would NOT relocate them!

this can spread disease.

expatinscotland · 03/05/2008 22:12

get a cat.

mine eats tadpoles.

Yurtgirl · 03/05/2008 22:13

Would you prefer rats yentil?

Wild horrid rats are in my garden freaking me out - Ill happily take all your froggies if youll have my rats instead

Frogs are lovely compared to rats surely - Sorry if that sound flippant to a frog phobic but Im eeeeeeeeeeek about rats

KatyMac · 03/05/2008 22:15

My cat eats frogs

Are they frogs tho' or toads

We have tonnes of toads

The cat eats them too

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yentil · 03/05/2008 22:16

i would put house on market if it came to rats. I am animal phobic fullstop, lgacy of my paents. th smallr the worse iget. there must be a solution?

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yentil · 03/05/2008 22:17

so many typos, i am sooo freaked out. maybe i need hypnosis

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yentil · 03/05/2008 22:18

will they come in the house? I have a few steps leading up to back door a we ae on a hill.

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MaureenMLove · 03/05/2008 22:19

I feel your pain Yentil. I am ridiculously scared of them too. We used to have loads. My garden was badly over grown when we moved in and steadily over the years I have taken it right back to very small flower beds and pots. Every time one jumped out at me (because they do, if you're scared shitless!) I couldn't return to that part of the garden for ages. I still see the occasional one, but very few now. The last one I saw was actually in nextdoors garden and I was frozen ridged, until dh caught it and evicted it!

Fridayfeeling · 03/05/2008 22:19

This cat with frog thing - has anyone experienced the ear piercing screech that comes from a frog as it is being tortured by a cat??

SOunds like a murder. Which I suppose it is actually ( Not as bad as mating foxes though - that really is child in pain scream!)

MaureenMLove · 03/05/2008 22:21

I had one in the house a little while back, actually. I think it must have come in on DH's work bag which had been outside the front door for a couple of hours. Sadly, I found it hiding under a coat, which was draped on the radiator. It was 6.30 in the morning and I screamed the house down, until DH was up!

MaureenMLove · 03/05/2008 22:22

I heard a frog make that noise. When I killed it, unintentionally, with the lawn mower! 1 - 0 to the gardener, I say!

fishie · 03/05/2008 22:26

maureenmlove how awful

it was probably a toad. frogs and toads don't always live in water they live in your gardens. they eat slugs and other things you would rather not have so please do try to live along side them.

MaureenMLove · 03/05/2008 22:30

It was an accident, promise! Trust me, if I had seen it, I would have run in the other direction, not killed it! I can't even look at a picture of one, without feeling icky!

expatinscotland · 03/05/2008 22:30

my sister once squelched a toad on the pavement on a dark, hot summer night.

with the heel of her dr. scholl sandal.

it was utterly repugnant.

MaureenMLove · 03/05/2008 22:32

My toes are curling at the thought of that Expat. I found a dried up one in my greenhouse once too and I had to get DH to remove that too! I really am quite irrational about them!

expatinscotland · 03/05/2008 22:34

she actually slid a bit and grabbed my arm and said, 'i think i stepped on something.'

i had a torch, we were just going a few doors down to a neighbours' house.

she shrieked and shrieked when she saw squished toad and refused to put her foot down at all.

i had to run and get my mother to stand with her whilst i ran back to the house to get her some other shoes.

my dad hosed the toad off, but she refused to wear those sandals again.

luckily, i had no problem with them .

i'd been covetuous of them for a while, so way i saw it, that toad was just a faerie gifting me the shoes.

MaureenMLove · 03/05/2008 22:38

Well, that was a stroke of luck! I once had a beautiful pair of long black, furlined boots. I was only about 7 and they were my pride and joy. I got them out of the cupboard under the stairs one day and just as I was putting my foot in, a mouse jumped out! I never wore those boots again!

Threadwworm · 03/05/2008 22:41

I've done the accidental heel scrunch. And the lawnmower thing (well, strimmer actually). And the putting-on-a-wellington-boot-with-a-toad-in-it thing. And, worst of all, the accidental-spade-cuts-toad-instead-of-soil thing.

Poor creatures. I am actually quite scared of them and had to get DS2 to act as bodyguard while I worked on a froggy part of the greenhouse the other day. But I don't want to hurt them

expatinscotland · 03/05/2008 22:41

BARF!

I feel about cockroaches the way you feel about frogs.

A proper roach, not those wee ones.

I once had a favourite blouse when I was about 12, much like your boots.

I pulled it out of my cupboard and put it on.

As I pulled my arm into the second hole, I felt scurrying on me.

I looked down to see a 2-inch long, Mexican brown-banded roach.

I hit the roof!

I ran screaming into the kitchen, where my cousin who lived with us was washing dishes (it was his night), grabbed a Brillo pad from his hand, and scrubbed my arm with it.