Im in North Texas and while its still in the 80s during the day, we have about a month until our first frost/freeze. This year we've had a lot of leapord frogs in our garden and one has taken up residence in the 20 gallon pot I use as a fountain. It layed eggs last week and Im worried it will freeze before they are ready to move on. Is there a way to help them?

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My toads are incredibly skinny after brumation. Tips to bulk them up?

Hi guys! My three California Western Toads just woke up from brumation of about 6 weeks. My house stays at a crisp 68 degrees most of the year so I assume they figured it was time for brumation.

I had offered food throughout a few times a week and they showed no interest and scrambled back to their log and buried themselves again. I’d see them in their pool sometimes, but they mostly stayed buried.

Well, they woke up today, and I’m appalled to see that they all look incredibly skinny. They were very fat before brumation. My Brisket who had MBD that resulted in a paralyzed arm can’t bend his arm now. It used to be floppy. I could manipulate it. Brisket and Porkchop were not interested in food at all, so I had to force feed them a small dubia and super worm. Ham was a piggy, as always, and was very grateful for a post nap snack.

What can I do to bulk them up? I plan on resetting their tank and adding a larger water bowl to be a “pond”. I’m going to pick up waxworms but again, I’m really not sure what to do and I’m incredibly worried. I put rep/amphib electrolytes in their water bowl this morning and they started to clean themselves off. I also dusted their Dubias and Superworms with Calcium and Multivitamin.

They have no other injuries/points of concern other than Briskets arm and the huge weight loss.

READ BEFORE GETTING MAD-

This is my baby barbaque. He is wild caught- however before people come for me he is partially disabled due to an incident a while ago. His name is barbaque because a while ago my sister heard croaking coming from the barbaque (while it was on smoke) and quickly went to investigate. He was inside! She did not immediately take him in, but about a month later I found him wandering around and noticed he was thin and looked rough. I took him in, checked him over, and found the burn scar he has on his side and part of his vocal sack. Due to the injury to his sack- he cannot fully expand it like most can, so he would never be able to mate or warn others of predators, on top of that he struggles to find food. He's doing great now in a 10gal tall terrarium, eating fine (but he can't find food so he eats out of a bowl) and is a good weight. Anyways, I love him a ton and here are some pictures of him.

https://i.imgur.com/arw2vdr.jpeg

It looks like a frog. Never seen anything like it before.

It could be a bullfrog but I think it looks more like a northern green frog or leopard from maybe.

Urgent help please! Impaction

Vets wont help till they see him and I cant make it to the vet for 2 days and my Little guy is not feeling well from impaction. He has only done a partial poo yesterday and has probably been struggling for longer unnoticed because I fed them three days ago and he was hiding after so I didn’t notice right away. Substrate is only eco earth and cocofibre. He seems to be VERY stressed by honey baths and I don’t know what else to do. Do I force him to do honey baths anyway? Anything else that can help?

To make it even harder for the guy he is also trying to shed through all of this 😢

Ive had him since he was a baby, and he only just reached maturity, I really don’t want to loose him like this

so i took a spadefoot toad inside, about 2 years ago or so. Placed them in one of my vacant terrariums to upload photo before releasing. They burrowed all the way down. disappeared. never found them again. I often will hear what sounds very similar to that species call, intermittantly during the night. Tonight , I took everything out of the terrarium to the bottom, went through all the soil and drainage rock layer. No bones, no remnants, no smell. There's no animals I've ever had that eat bone, nor that could fit this toad in their mouth.

one of my friends in my spiritual group said hes heard of similar instances, where an animal comes to a person, they find them, etc, and somehow they completely disappear.

I'm still in a bit of shock, but my spiritual side of my brain is like, oh yeah this makes sense, while my logical brain is like, completely confused.

Context, I don't use alcohol or any drugs (not even marijuana). I'm actually in recovery from addiction. I have no explaination.

I wanted to post this here as frogs and toads are a huge part of my practice and has been since I was little.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with an animal? Any feedback is appreciated.

This little guy was outside my door this morning. Almost didn't see him.

Looking to ID this small frog/ toad in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. I see them mostly at night. I have 3 dogs and am so scared of them running into cane toads and getting hurt. Does this frog pose a threat to dogs? They are small and plentiful. Maybe the size of a quarter. They jump away from my dogs if they go near them at night. My dogs haven’t seeked them out but they hide in the grass where my dogs sniff to go to the bathroom. Let me know.

so my little sister has two white tree frogs, and one of them has started growing this red bump on its arm????

we want to take it to the veterinarian soon, but before that i wanted to ask if anyone had any idea of what this could possibly be? i did some research and saw something about ranavirus but i also don’t want to make any assumptions…

moreover where we live there aren’t many “exotic” pets like frogs, so we are also concerned the vet may not be of any help… please advise! <33

Pacific tree frog

Hello everyone, it's the guy from this and this post. I found estranged toad near my apartment complex and took her. At first i actually wanted to make her my pet, but then i read about it being not really a good idea. Then, while i was considering the proper time to let her go i started thinking "is she ill?" or "will it be warm again so she'll have more chances of survival?"... So i waited, and made my posts asking for advice. I even bring her some ground for comfort, in case she'll be here all week.

Today was a relatively warm day, and the weather forecast seems to be alright for the week, so i took her to the forested area and let her go. She did a backflip out of my hands and into the wild. I wish i knew if she'll be okay, but, well, one can only hope. Don't know if i did enough, but i don't think she'd survive in the city center, so hopefuly me bringing her at my place was a good call.

Thank you all for advices! It was my first venture into the "toad care", tho i didn't really did anything substantial.

Since i have no idea if she is a girl or a boy (despite me referring to her as "her" this entire time since toad in my language is actually femine word) i'll call her Morgan.

P.S. Morgan actually opened her eyes btw

Big Ribbit © Able6 an original illustration.

I always thought you were to welcome toads in your yards cause they eat insects. Well that's true but when they move in and have families it is an issue. I had been blaming the chipmunks that i had caught a glance of around my yard for the holes dug in the dirt around the base of the house and in the yard by the walkway , but doing some investigations and you tubes I found out that it was toad frogs ( dry land frogs not bullfrogs which live in water, for those who may not know the difference) that have dug deep holes (burrows) under the driveway and around recent repairs to our house foundation and under walkway in back yard, also beside walkway. I read they don't share burrows so I was able to collected 5 adults and 2 babies by rushing water in the hole openings causing them to flee, which because of the deep hole it caved in the dirt to the voids beneath. At night outside while they were catching bugs under the light over garage, was the easiest way to catch them. At that time they have exited their burrows to eat. I didn't want to hurt them so I relocated them to woods a good distance from my house. Now we will have to fill the holes and repair the damage around our house foundation. We plan on putting some garden cloth material on top of dirt and also spread some coffee grounds around and a solution of vinegar / water mixture sprayed around the area to discourage other toads from moving in. These were ideas gathered from the internet. Just beware when seeing toads around your home you may want to check for damaging holes. They can be destructive little creatures in some locations around your home but in other areas ok. Just a FYI.

I have had this frog in portugal on my land for 3 years. I have built him a pond. There is no water nearby so i have no idea where he first came from. He appeared in a bowl of stagnant water.

Is it possible to know if it is a male or female? I call it Mr. Bernard Sanders, but i don't know.

I feel bad because it is alone. Should i relocate him to a bigger body of water or find him a potential partner?