How to Rid Your Garden of Toads
Frogs and toads are wonderful additions to any garden. They eat an amazing number of insect pests, including slugs and snails. However, if you are tripping over them on garden paths, you may want to discourage them from taking up residence.
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Instructions
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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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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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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.)
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Tips & Warnings
Think twice before you decide to rid your garden of amphibians. They do much more good than harm.
If you use pesticides in your garden, you will kill frogs and toads. Their skin is a permeable membrane making them very susceptible to toxic chemicals.
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Comments
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spent my childhood in a very poor rural setting made me hate toads, snakes and so on so forth. The house I had has very poor sealants, especially around the door and the toads would come inside of the house whenever chance permits, usually, each night there would be at least 10 super huge toads running inside our living room. My mom would crush each one and kick them out through the gap between the floor and the door then asked us children to kill every toad we saw. My neighbor and I did it with bricks and even our school encouraged killing them as they were very poisonous.
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boldgrey
Jun 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
May 08, 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.
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lizfll
Mar 02, 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.
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yellowsand1964
Aug 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
