CarrieMpls said:

Nice Christian values to teach the kids.

JustErin said:

What would you know about Christian values?

RodeoSchro said:

From the things you've lectured me about of course!

And tv.

JustErin said:

Well, I am lecturing you that it's OK to kill frogs. Problem solved!

i'm sure the majority of you who so strongly oppose to killing frogs eat meat
yourselves

you have no right to speak

you hypocrits


having said that , it's revolting to kill frogs imo
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Dewrede said:

HOWEVER, the squashed frogs are probably getting eaten by some snake or other predator, so when you look at it, I'm just helping out the natural cycle of things.

Dewrede said:

Bullshit, I'm not against killing animals for food - since that's totally natural in the animal world. I'm against people thinking they have the right to kill animals just because they simply don't like them.

JustErin said:

Then we're on the same page. I'm not killing them because I don't like them; I'm killing them because they make it impossible for me to sleep.

And before you say it, trust me - one or two bullfrogs' sound could be suppressed, but a whole pond full? No possible way.

RodeoSchro said:

You kill them because you don't like them because the keep you up. That's all.

There is not much more to say.

JustErin said:

Yeah, it really is petty of me to value sleep, isn't it?

RodeoSchro said:

Bottom line is you did something that was not necessary and just for esthetics (which is totally fine) which in turn attracted unwanted visitors. So instead of using common sense and taking that unnecessary attraction away, you decided to kill your visitors - even though you realize that you are just setting it up to have another one come along and therefore you're just going to have to keep killing.

Value your sleep all you want, we know now that your sleep and keeping your totally useless pond is more important to you than realizing that you created this problem yourself and can solve it without destroying an animal that is actually rapidly disappearing from this earth.

And it's a big joke to you.

Cool.

JustErin said:

Oh, it's not a joke. I take killing frogs VERY seriously. You should see all the work it takes. I have to sit up on the top of the pond for a long time, waiting out the frog. You see, when you go outside and turn on the lights, they know. They KNOW it's on.

So they pipe down. I have to remain still and quiet for 5 - 10 minutes before they think it's safe.

And then, I only get ONE whack at them with the business end of my dog's pooper scooper. If I miss, the frog jumps into the pond, and I have to find him under the rocks. And then it's a LOT harder to squish him. I have to get the pooper scooper in the crack at just the right angle to mash in his guts. I use a stabbing motion. It's not easy.

Now, multiply that by 2, 3 or 4 frogs, and you can see how time-consuming and physically demanding offing these frogs can be.

This isn't an activity for sissies.

RodeoSchro said:

Dewrede said:

But he's not killing them to eat them. Different case.

RodeoSchro said:

Ants but not predators. They'd probably prefer them live. Or newly killed. But throwing them in the road threatens scavengers that would eat them.

SUPRMAN said:

I'm killing them so I can sleep, which is just about as important.

SUPRMAN said:

Whatever eats them, they got one more to feast on this morning.

The SOB came out at 5:37 AM. What the bleep?!? First time EVER that a frog has come out at that time.

My strategy of owning the battlefield paid off. Quickest victory ever.

And, hopefully, the last.

BTW, I used to let them float in the pond. I figured it would send a message to the other frogs - "This is what's going to happen to you!" But the frogs weren't smart enough to get the message.

So now, if I can fish them out, I chunk them into the flower beds.

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Can you get some sort of special frequency noise maker that you can't hear, but frogs can?

http://www.onlinetips.org/get-rid-frogs

Have you tried the salt water thing, the herring net, or the scary cat eyes stuff the the article suggests?

Or this article suggests using citric acid or caffeine...


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RodeoSchro said:

you should turn this into a money making operation seeing as you clearly have too many frogs... is there a local restaurant looking for frog meat? Make some cash on the side I say!

jone70 said:

Interesting, thanks!

The idiotic radio garden show guys had no advice on stuff like this, so it;s good to know there are some chemical options.

I put chroline bleach and even gasoline in the pond, but it didn't deter the frogs one bit. The only thing that seemed to have worked a little was when I sprinkled industrial strength Ortho fire ant killer around the pond (yes, I kill fire ants, too. Anyone got a problem with that?). But the smell was so bad, and also I was afraid it would hurt my dog. I value my dog more than I value the hideous frogs. Sorry if that offends any of the bleeding-heart frog lovers here.

The first article mentioned using salt water, as it will irritate their feet. That must have been what the fire ant killer did. I'll keep that one in mind.

The second article mentioned that frogs were one of the plagues sent by God. See, you bleeding hearts? They're plagues!

That article had at least one good tip - the caffeine thing. I can dump my coffee grounds around the pond every morning.

And I liked that the writer of that article wasn't wholly against killing frogs. My kind of person!

(Note: The killing of frogs should be done as a last resort, no matter how satisfying it is.)

RenHoek said:

Man, I'm really pretty lucky. There must be THOUSANDS of frogs, maybe TENS OF THOUSANDS, on the golf course. And I am only one house away from the 4th fairway.

We put plastic fencing/mesh around the entire perimeter of our property about three/four years ago. Actually, that was my wife's idea. I mocked it, knowing that keeping frogs out against their will was impossible.

But she did not like my solution of filling in the pond and making it a plant garden.

I probably should have asked her before I filled it in, but I was pretty mad at the frogs as I recall.