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| lynn22 |
Posted - 05/09/2009 : 18:09:41
Hi
I'm looking for some fairly urgent advice please & having looked online for a couple of hours I really cant find the answers I need so hoping someone here might help ?
Firstly I dont have frogs or toads...infact i dont have a garden just now (i've just built the house & its mostly topsoil where the gardens will be.)
Last night however I got the shock of my life as there was a baby toad inside my integral garage..I am assuming due to a massive amount of rain we had yesterday & the day before along with a good deal of land/mud movement this little guy has been washed down or disturbed & ended up at my house & some how got into the garage.
My big concern is he's very small & thin and i read online that they hibernate next month so should i pop him outside & leave him to it or take any other action ? I'd hate to send him off to die if he hibernates & isnt heavy enough to survive it.
Please advise me on what to do as i dont want to keep him longer than necessary if he should be outside,
oh i caught the smallest slug i could find last night but he hasnt eaten it, anything else i could feed him ????
I'll be extremely grateful for any advice or info
ta
lynn x |
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| Kazerella |
Posted - 07/09/2009 : 19:39:27
I agree with Lewy- he'd probably be better off outside. Take him to a nice patch of land if you prefer, but he'll probably move on himself if the environment isn't right for him to hibernate  |
| lynn22 |
Posted - 05/09/2009 : 21:59:30
Ok so i took a couple of pics but cant copy them on here, i could email them if you wanted. It is from nose to where its tail was 2.5 cm long & it wouldnt register on the kitchen scales ! looks healthy & as lively as a toad would normally be...he's green, rough textured (getting warty lol) and it has red/orange as well.
Would it matter if I released him up the road a wee bit ? Its just thats where the flow of water came from & i'm sure this has something to do with him turning up, plus there is a ditch up there (oh i live in the country not a town so its rural land all around)
I'd also be equally happy putting him down where my non garden is for him to live under the summer house or where-ever (my son wanhted to make a wee bog garden so i think we should if theres toads/frogs lurking around)
but outside both front & rear garage exits is soon to be hard landscaped with tar so he definately doesnt want to be buried anywhere near there or it will be a permanent arrangement !
I'll find a couple of spiders for it tonight, I have giant african land snails but i dont fancy putting him in with them, i'm not sure who'd eat who LOL
Where would I find out if there is an actual guide for weight prior to hibernation ? Perhaps they only have this for hedgehogs/mammals ? or actually since we know how long he is now maybe you's might know if this is the same size as other young toads at this time of year. |
| lewy |
Posted - 05/09/2009 : 20:06:12
Hi Lynn welcome to the forum,
I'd say put him outside, as close to the garage you found him in as you can. He should be okay, wild toads don't do brilliantly inside and even If he did okay it would be hard to reintroduce him in the spring. You could try and fatten him up a little, toads love woodlice, worms, spiders, flies (normally things that move faster than slugs will catch their attention) most insects really.
They bury down in the soil or under rocks until the spring and they usually stay in one area, so I wouldn't recommend moving him too far away from where you found him.
When you say small, how small? any photos? His chances outside are probably better than in captivity, but if he's ill that's a different story.
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