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Step 1
Remove any wood piles, old lumber or pots from ground level. Toads live in dark, damp places during the daytime and hunt in the evening hours. If you remove their favorite haunts, they will move on.
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Step 2
Keep pet food inside the house. Toads have been known to help themselves to a free meal from Fido's bowl of kibble. If you feed your pet outside, pick up any uneaten food before you retire for the night.
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Step 3
Empty water bowls, ground-level birdbaths or other containers that have standing water. Frogs and toads are attracted to moisture. Any standing water is an open invitation. (This step will also eliminate mosquitoes from your garden, but be advised, toads eat mosquitos, so once they have moved on, you may be plagued with an invasion of pesty insects.)
Comments
boldgrey said
on 6/15/2009 For any of you folks that think toads should be caught and relocated, I have an overabundance of these filthy, repulsive creatures. Mostly, out here they become roadrunner food, but if you'd like some of them for your own, they're free for the taking.
redorsey1066 said
on 5/8/2009 My goodness - I have a dog and counted 17 toads in my yard tonight! Yes - SEVENTEEN! Guess what? My dog doesn't bother them - maybe she is smarter than your dogs? Toads are great - they eat tons of bugs and will stay near your house year after year if given proper habitat. Maybe you morons who killed them for revenge live in the city, who knows. Instead of killing them, take them to an area with a pond and release them. The woman dumping salt on them is a creep, IMO.
lizfll said
on 3/2/2009 Obviously, you must train your dogs, but they're only animals and WILL go chasing after something interesting that catches their eye. I never have my dog off-leash in my own yard because of the toads. TOADS WILL KILL DOGS!! So I have absolutely no problem of picking my favored species and defending them... sorry toads... you will get salted!! I don't care if it is cruel. My dogs are FAMILY and ANYONE who messes with my dogs will have to pay for it... that includes toads! I'm thinking of getting a SuperSoaker and loading it up with rocksalt-water so I can spray them from afar. In case you were wondering, dropping salt on a toad will dehydrate it and it will die in a couple of hours.
yellowsand1964 said
on 8/27/2008 i dont like frogs and even with them is mosquitos in home, our pool is a mess and we dont have any wood ornaments in our garden, they jump around all night as is really hard for me to walk bcs I hate to step in one of them... I want a tip how to made them go plz
sunkissedbeach said
on 5/18/2008 Last night my dear little Pekingese got poisoned by a toad. He had 1.5 hours of grand Maul seizures and was treated over night at the dog hospital.
Thank God he lived my vet bill was 1,000.00.
When I got home from the hospital I found a toad by my pond and I killed it by bashing it with a shovel.
Do you know that is the first time (short of bugs) I have ever killed anything.
I didn't feel bad at all. Today my husband found three others in our yard and he put them in a plastic zip lock bag and then into the freezer.
Dam toads.