persephone Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 am horrifed and disturbed that you would have heard them screaming You would have a nervous breakdown here, then every time snake or cat or dog or something grabs a frog there are a few seconds of screaming... The other night I must hve missed a frog in my nightly 'muster' of ones who sneak indoors ..and around 1 am I awoke to the very loud squark of a frog alongside my bed ! Mr. Wilson had one , and was patting it around . I let it go outside ... and told it to stay there! There are hundreds of frogs around here at present... they are in/on everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 This one is disturbing. Pelican eats live pigeon. The fact I find disturbing is that this bird has become so used to feeding on land .. and eating all sorts of rubbish , that it now sees most things as food, instead of feeding mostly in/from the water as it should be. Eating a live pigeon, with flapping wings is not really much different to eating a wildly flopping ,spiky finned fish, after all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenzied1 Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 am horrifed and disturbed that you would have heard them screaming You would have a nervous breakdown here, then every time snake or cat or dog or something grabs a frog there are a few seconds of screaming... The other night I must hve missed a frog in my nightly 'muster' of ones who sneak indoors ..and around 1 am I awoke to the very loud squark of a frog alongside my bed ! Mr. Wilson had one , and was patting it around . I let it go outside ... and told it to stay there! There are hundreds of frogs around here at present... they are in/on everything! I would, I couldn;t stand it, I didn;t know frogs could even scream.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff'n'Toller Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 am horrifed and disturbed that you would have heard them screaming You would have a nervous breakdown here, then :rolleyes: every time snake or cat or dog or something grabs a frog there are a few seconds of screaming... The other night I must hve missed a frog in my nightly 'muster' of ones who sneak indoors ..and around 1 am I awoke to the very loud squark of a frog alongside my bed ! Mr. Wilson had one , and was patting it around . I let it go outside ... and told it to stay there! There are hundreds of frogs around here at present... they are in/on everything! I would, I couldn;t stand it, I didn;t know frogs could even scream.. It's not like a high pitched human scream, more like persephone says, a loud "quarrrrrrrk". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 It's not like a high pitched human scream, No :rolleyes: that's goats ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff'n'Toller Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 It's not like a high pitched human scream, No that's goats ! :) Or piglets! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog_Horse_Girl Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 As Monah said, green tree frogs are toxic. Lilly got one when we lived in Darwin, I didn't realise they were harmful. She killed it rather quickly as greyhounds are very efficient at killing stuff. But within 5 to 10 mins she was retching, this progressed to awful vomiting then the runs. I called my vet (of course it was Sunday!) and the nurse said to observe her. They were rather surprised it was a green tree frog and they made me go and check - yep, it was not a toad but a green tree frog lying dead and mutilated in the garden right where Lilly had been. I spoke to my vet a few days later and he was aware of the toxicity. He said he would bring his nurses up to speed - the two on duty were international vet students (both qualified vet nurses, both studying a higher veterinary qualification and doing some of their internship or whatever it's called, in Australia). I don't think Lilly went near another GTF but she still hasn't learnt to leave the toads alone. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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