Way OT - Help needed with frogs

I'm certainly no expert but I do know that southern tree frogs hibernate in the winter. We have them here in No. GA and they are noisy from about mid-June through mid-Sept. Once the night time temps start to drop, the froggies go to sleep. I'd be willing to bet that the one you feel is not doing well is the southern one and he's starting into hibernation. Do you have an agricultural extension office or something similar? Quite often they will be able to help with this type of question. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Sue - why don't you call the UMD (College Park) biology & zoology depts and speak with someone from the labs. Or the extension service? They're not that far from you - maybe a half hour drive, and should be able to help you out. Would take a few phone calls, but that's what I would do - just get the phone numbers from the UMD web site, and make a couple of calls. I'm sure someone will be able to help out.

ellice

Our frogs hibernate at the bottom of the ponds when the weather drops below a certain temperature. Maybe your`s are being kept a little too warm and "comfortable?" Our toads and newts bury themselves for the winter.

Pat

I'm sad to say the little frog passed on last night, in spite of my best efforts. I don't know what was wrong - he didn't have some of the obscure froggie diseases that were possibiliites. I feel terrible about it. I didn't feel this bad when the hamster died, probably because the hamster was a highly inappropriate birthday gift to my youngest daughter. Life goes on. We have one frog left and no more planned adoptions of anything! SueW

Sorry about the little frog passing away - maybe it was just old. Good luck with the remaining one, and happy that some of the suggestions for aid were useful.

ellice

Sue, sorry to hear the froggie hopped off to the big Lily pad,where frogs land up,(I guess!).

It was sort of coincidental reading your post, because of my experience last night.

To start at the beginning, I got a phone call yesterday that my mammogram needed more tests. Needless to say I was a bit distressed, and decided that I wouldn't be able to sleep well until today's further tests, so treated myself to a cocktail with dinner , "dumb" TV, and knitting during the evening. Went to bed, read 30 mins, was very relaxed and started to doze off. Then I heard litle mini-yelps, ( almost squeaks) from Max, the male dachsie. Got our of bed, resettled him, got back in, started to doze..........and that cycle got repeated until 1 am!! At one point he was on a table, paws on the window. I couldn't see anything there. I DID hear him scrabbling where my knitting bag and cross-stitch project .

Anyway, in the morning I got up to............ the remains of a tree-frog, one foot missing, head slightly smooshed, stuck in the carpet on my side of the bed!! The little beastie must have carried it in after his night time walk, and it got loose!!

BTW, after an ultrasound, a half-dozen more Xrays, I was released for another year YEEEAAAAAHHHHH.

Gillian

Congrats on the good mammo results!

Sorry about the little frog.

Huzzah for that!

Cheryl

Ah, sorry about that morning find. We're so thankful that the worst Puckster carries in is his floppy frisBEE - when he's dropped it and peeed on it - yuck. OTOH, at least Max wasn't trying to learn to knit with your WIP.

Congrats.

ellice

Good thing Max didn't leave it where your bare foot would have found it!

I'll second those sentiments!

Joan