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16-06-2010, 09:32 PM
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Frogs
Was is greenhouse tonight and moved a tray of basil seedlings to find a big green frog and a little brown one. I took them to bottom of garden to release them. It wasn't until later when I thought maybe they would be good to leave in there to get unwanted bugs.
Should I have left them or did I do the right thing? 
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16-06-2010, 10:07 PM
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i'd like to think they were harmless but i'm not 100% on that
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16-06-2010, 10:28 PM
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If I had found them I would have cried.....I hate them so much.
If one is in the garden I have to go in until my husband has taken it to another garden. 
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16-06-2010, 10:35 PM
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Lol, the big ones are quite ugly but I kinda like them.
Would rather them than spiders any day! My cat kills everything  but frogs, he won't touch. Must be the rubbery feeling. He has rabbits everyday just now not good!
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16-06-2010, 11:24 PM
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Oh no, does he leave them for you as a gift? Mine used to do that with birds or mice. Seemed more like a threat to me though, a dead animal on my doorstep or under the dining room table
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17-06-2010, 08:29 AM
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Oh I love frogs! I hate lots of other creepy crawlies but Frogs are fab! And yes, I believe they would have eaten up lots of bugs near your plants.
I found a cutie nestled in with my peas last weekend. I have a small pond so I popped him in there. Last year I got a craking pic on my camera of another resting on the pond: 
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17-06-2010, 11:07 AM
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Yes he leaves them as presents. Monday morning I had in my house: A dead bird, A live bird, The remains of a mouse and The remains of a rabbit And a live rabbit that he was chasing in the garden which I managed to save  Can deal with the mice at a push and possibly the birds but the rabbits are heart-breaking. If they are in shock I put them in a box with hay and let them recover for a few hours then let them go (nowhere near my cat), lol.
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17-06-2010, 11:32 PM
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17-06-2010, 11:38 PM
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24-06-2010, 08:27 PM
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Went into the greenhouse tonight and noticed one pot of my basil seedlings were damaged so I lifted up the tray they were in and what did I find - another frog. The monkey must have dug in my basil before deciding on it's new home however this time I have let him stay.
Hopefully he will be happy, not dog anymore and eat any unwanted guests.
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24-06-2010, 08:29 PM
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06-07-2010, 07:29 PM
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Look who was hiding in my Beetroot... my old pal Mr Frog!!!
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09-07-2010, 09:27 PM
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Oh no! I hope he comes back, he looks after your basil!
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26-05-2011, 11:57 PM
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Please read this webpage. It is American but will apply to UK as well. The University of Maine - Cooperative Extension Publications - Bulletin #7148, Facts on Cats and Wildlife: A Conservation Dilemma US, Nationwide, cats kill over a billion small mammals and millions of birds each year. Some of these kills are house mice, rats and other species considered pests, but many are native songbirds and mammals whose populations are already stressed by other factors, such as habitat destruction and pesticide pollution. I love my cat. She is a house/garden cat, well fed and to lazy to hunt. The bell makes sure she can't.
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29-05-2011, 01:06 AM
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Im not sure if that article from persons at Uni. of Maine USA is apropriate here. Its not a specialist subject of mine but when I did ecology not so long ago we were taught that bird populations shrank and grew in relation to available food primarily...and if you read the anti-cat article carefully its thrust is built up by a lot of 'may influence'and so forth. Well ...pigs may fly...thats not scientific fact but opinion.
Obviously its not a good idea to let domestic cats become feral colonies...that seems to be what its about...a problem somewhere in the usa? Predators will kill a lot of birds...from the instinct to eat... which is rather less surprising than that human beings killed a couple of hundred million of their own species in the last century (although,nb, that hasnt endangered H.sapiens). Its certainly bloody in the natural world but, given that fact, theres no proof there (it seems to me) that cats are actually endangering species in the UK...and thus on to some need for them to wear bells, be kept indoors, and so forth. If someone would like to scientifically prove it fine. Ive just cleared up a thrush I was looking at yesterday and Im certainly open to it. We need to hear that cats actually ARE threatening the survival of UK species... rather than killing lots of individual birds. The simple argument for fairly lean, bell-less, working cats is were never more than a few feet from a rat! Returning to earlier in the thread its sad to dislike both frogs and spiders as they are both such useful insect predators (especially where I live as they both save a lot of mosquito bites!). I think its quite easy to decondition yourself to superficial dislikes. I had some dislike of spiders learned off my mum but knowing they did nothing but good I determined to coexist and laid a bit of string from the bath tap as a ladder. Just that simple bit of positive action led me to realise we could easily co-exist and after a few years I became an arachnophile to the extent I now cull the pholsids...which are the long legged net-vibrating ones which kill the other spiders. It should be possible to make a damp far away froggy place...to keep them away from you...and so get to co-exist and hopefully to eventually like them? PS The frog pic took sometime to download on my system...its lovely!
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