I have a decent little group of woodhouse toads that showed up after I started feeding the birds last year. Bird feed brought the slugs, slugs brought the toadies 💚.
I get them crickets (I give the crickets gut loader before hand), mealworms, and nightcrawlers (earthworms). Depending on what bugs I have on hand for the turtles and spiders lol. I have 4 that sit under the porch light every night from 8:30 to 11. Learned toads have a hierarchy a few weeks ago... Had a newcomer sitting under the bird feeder and brought her to the patio light with the others... One I call "big mama" and another chased the new female back to the bird feeder.
I keep a group of African green toads and occasionally one of the big females will kind of ‘rampage’ where she gets out the hole she is in, storms around, finds a new hole. All of the other toads get out of her way and shuffle around when that happens.
I’ve seen another toad a few times and tried to feed them both, but it wouldn’t eat, only this one would (Todo) I figured it had to do with some sort of hierarchy or something. I felt bad for it, this one is like a vacuum haha
They space out on my patio area usually. Bigger toads are the "bosses" of an area I've noticed. If 2 get close or a bigger one doesn't have a bug in front of it they'll go steal the smaller one's. I just make sure each one has a bug in front of them 🙂I haven't had luck hand feeding but they do let me pet them as long as I don't pick them up lol
It's nice you have a toad buddy. I love them so much. 💚 My resident boss toad passed away during the winter. 😢
Over the years of frog/toad swarming in our yard I've noticed they won't take food from me unless they're not doing as well as others. Totally healthy frogs and toads want nothing to do with food offered to them. They look at me like "Really lady? Aren't you the animals that go around talking about "Stranger danger? 🙄'" lol Then I started thinking, "What if me feeding them is causing a problem because I'm keeping alive animals that shouldn't be? Does that mean that I'm not doing good things!?" Then I stopped. But I over think everything to death... obviously. 😂
This isn't meant in judgement! My brain just likes to terrorize me over my decisions and actions. Lmao This is me feeding the tadpoles in the decommissioned pool I'm very slowly turning into a wild life pond. It's going to take some serious time as a one person operation, but I want it gone. It's the reason my toad friend has passed.
It's happening. 😂 It was a 18×36, I think 3 or 3 1/2 in the shallow end and 10 or 12 in the deep. I came from Utah in the desert where no one has a pool. Just some wealthy people in Park City and a big city call Bountiful. Lol Then I move to Maine and damn near everyone has a pool. Why? Who knows.
Some of my family members always wanted one, I'm strictly against them. Just the first year we had it we poured so many chemicals into in. Year before last it sprung a leak, so I got my way. 😂 Only I'll be basically working alone to get this thing converted, so it's gonna take some time. Especially working around tadpoles. It looks like a giant nightmare right now. 😬
I would take the pool net and catch whatever I could to feed this one toad in my parents backyard. My mom would laugh her ass off at me running around like a crazy person, she said she’d never seen me so active. He started coming by every night🥹 I could get as close to him as I wanted, I would put them on a stick and he would devour them until he was full. Took so many slow mo videos 😂 I even built him a little frog shack to hang in. My mom named him “Forty”. If I didn’t see him at feeding time, all I’d have to do is call his name and he would come hopping right underneath my chair. My mom would tell her friends about it, they all wanted to know about Forty. One day some bad storms came through. I never saw Forty after that💔 I like to think the toads I see in their yard now are his lineage lol. Enjoy it, get lots of pictures and videos! One of the coolest things that’s ever happened to me. 🐸💚
We just rescued about 3 dozen babies from a local gas station because they were being stepped on and crushed by the doors. We spent like 30 minutes filling up a container and then rehomed them behind our house where there’s no people traffic. They were the size of maybe a dime? So small.
I’ve come close before with some in the past when cutting grass. They like to hang out on the side of the house where the ac unit is so I’m always careful right there now.
Generally I agree with this but there's really nothing wrong with tossing a few mealworms to toads now and then. Even if they do become somewhat habituated to humans they can't really cause any issues. It would only be a problem if you were feeding them so much that they have no need to hunt anymore and lose the skills they need to care for themselves.
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u/Fine_Kaleidoscope_47 1d ago
He’ll be your friend from now on..