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Forums > General Discussion   Shooting the breeze...

Amazing toilet frogs

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Created by decrepit > 9 months ago, 10 Dec 2013
decrepit
WA, 12408 posts
10 Dec 2013 7:30PM
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Yep, that's right toilet frogs!

Was around at Mum's last week, went to use her 2nd loo, lifted the lid and got a huge fright, big splash in the bowl and a pair of disappearing feet. The bowl was also in a bit of a mess, (Mum would normally never go in here), cleaned the bowl up and told Mum.
No sign of frog for about a week, then Mum goes in to check the other day, and there it is sitting on top of the lid!

Mum, quickly closes the door and wedges a cushion in the gap at the bottom.
I go around the next day, thinking to find a dead frog, (they can't breath if they dry out too much).
No sign of it, look behind loo, not many places to hide in loo, so mystified I raise the lid, and there it is in the bowl!!!!!
Before I can react and grab it, there's the disappearing feet thing again.

Mum has put white king down both toilet bowls and weights on the lids. So far I haven't heard of any more appearances.

Do you think her solution will work?
Anybody else come across frogs that can open toilet lids, getting out and then letting themselves back in?

I'm wondering if we have some sort of evolutionary sewer system frog here. I didn't get a real good look, pretty big, about the size of the averages ladies palm. Could it be a cane toad?

ikw777
QLD, 2995 posts
10 Dec 2013 9:40PM
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Multiple frogs.

Cane toads a re brown coloured and large/ugly

Mark _australia
WA, 22808 posts
10 Dec 2013 7:46PM
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Possibly explains how that French girl escaped from my place....

Serious note: if it is a cane toad in your neck of the woods Decrep - lots of Govt types will wanna know about it. Gawd it was like Watergate level of interest when they crossed the border, and likewise when found in Kununurra.
Hope it ain't...

sn
WA, 2775 posts
10 Dec 2013 8:22PM
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decrepit said..

Yep, that's right toilet frogs!


Mum has put white king down both toilet bowls and weights on the lids.


Why the bleach and weights?

Nothing wrong with having frogs around the place, we miss having the noisy slimy things here.

[between the butcher birds, egret thingy and the neighbours cats, our pond got cleaned out]

We used to walk onto our back verandah during the evening to see dozens at a time sitting under the bugzapper - worshipping the blue flash that fed them.

stephen

firiebob
WA, 3158 posts
10 Dec 2013 8:54PM
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Hey Mike it's common here in Qld to get green tree frogs in the dunny, they're happy as so just leave it, no one has ever been attacked by a dunny frog

firiebob
WA, 3158 posts
10 Dec 2013 9:03PM
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Try 50 or so of these little buggers breeding in your spa





decrepit
WA, 12408 posts
10 Dec 2013 9:22PM
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sn said..
>>>
Why the bleach and weights?

Nothing wrong with having frogs around the place, we miss having the noisy slimy things here.

>>>>>>
stephen


Well when you're 92, the thought of getting up in the middle of the night, to share the toilet bowl with a bloody great frog, is a tad disconcerting.
Mum certainly has no objections to them in the back yard, where there are plenty.

My puzzle is how it lifted the lid from the outside to get back in, I can see how it may have managed to lift it from the inside, but the reverse seems improbable to say the least.

decrepit
WA, 12408 posts
10 Dec 2013 9:24PM
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firiebob said..

Try 50 or so of these little buggers breeding in your spa







Well firie he/she looks quite cute, I could handle that.

smicko
WA, 2503 posts
10 Dec 2013 9:31PM
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Boat Harbour caravan park near Denmark is full of them, the crappers, the camp kitchen, laundry, everywhere. Personally I love them, their only downside is they attract Tigers.

Razzonater
2224 posts
10 Dec 2013 10:53PM
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On a minesite in wa there was one frog in my dunny and I let him be.one morning whilst dislodging a large poo I felt something jump onto my scrotum. I jumped forward in absolute terror and smashed my head on the door handle if the toilet. The frog dropped to the ground and scurried down the shower drain whilst I was swearing and cursing him. I felt angry and violated from the surprise attack and not being one to let things go devised a strategy to get my revenge. I could hear him croaking at night from then on and took it his croaking to be a sign of defiance and mockery. After several nights of this the room cleaner and I crossed paths.....hey mate there's a bad smell coming from the shower drain,can ya give it a good dose with draino.....now after my assumed victory I returned to my donga.( feeling quite smug) there was no croaking however when I opened the funny for a piss I than seen two frogs.it was then I realised I could not win. I than reasoned with the frogs and told them my scrotum and tadpoles were sacred,and not to be jumped at and clung onto whilst I am bombing there water wonderland that we call the toilet. From the look they gave me u was concerned there may be some communication issues. So before I sat down I flushed the funny,both frogs got taken down the vortex. I felt quite smug once more until I sat down and blicked out all light except for the bit where the old fella hangs down and the gap to the seat....within seconds of sitting down something jumped at me causing another terrified episode of smashing me head on the dunny door.....I had lost and conceded defeat.

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
10 Dec 2013 11:19PM
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Razzonater said..

On a minesite in wa there was one frog in my dunny and I let him be.one morning whilst dislodging a large poo I felt something jump onto my scrotum




Brewman
NSW, 48 posts
11 Dec 2013 9:20AM
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Razzonater said..

On a minesite in wa there was one frog in my dunny and I let him be.one morning whilst dislodging a large poo I felt something jump onto my scrotum. I jumped forward in absolute terror and smashed my head on the door handle if the toilet. The frog dropped to the ground and scurried down the shower drain whilst I was swearing and cursing him. I felt angry and violated from the surprise attack and not being one to let things go devised a strategy to get my revenge. I could hear him croaking at night from then on and took it his croaking to be a sign of defiance and mockery. After several nights of this the room cleaner and I crossed paths.....hey mate there's a bad smell coming from the shower drain,can ya give it a good dose with draino.....now after my assumed victory I returned to my donga.( feeling quite smug) there was no croaking however when I opened the funny for a piss I than seen two frogs.it was then I realised I could not win. I than reasoned with the frogs and told them my scrotum and tadpoles were sacred,and not to be jumped at and clung onto whilst I am bombing there water wonderland that we call the toilet. From the look they gave me u was concerned there may be some communication issues. So before I sat down I flushed the funny,both frogs got taken down the vortex. I felt quite smug once more until I sat down and blicked out all light except for the bit where the old fella hangs down and the gap to the seat....within seconds of sitting down something jumped at me causing another terrified episode of smashing me head on the dunny door.....I had lost and conceded defeat.


Oh! OOH! stop! my chest hurts

dan111984
461 posts
11 Dec 2013 6:54PM
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decrepit said..

Yep, that's right toilet frogs!

Was around at Mum's last week, went to use her 2nd loo, lifted the lid and got a huge fright, big splash in the bowl and a pair of disappearing feet. The bowl was also in a bit of a mess, (Mum would normally never go in here), cleaned the bowl up and told Mum.
No sign of frog for about a week, then Mum goes in to check the other day, and there it is sitting on top of the lid!

Mum, quickly closes the door and wedges a cushion in the gap at the bottom.
I go around the next day, thinking to find a dead frog, (they can't breath if they dry out too much).
No sign of it, look behind loo, not many places to hide in loo, so mystified I raise the lid, and there it is in the bowl!!!!!
Before I can react and grab it, there's the disappearing feet thing again.

Mum has put white king down both toilet bowls and weights on the lids. So far I haven't heard of any more appearances.

Do you think her solution will work?
Anybody else come across frogs that can open toilet lids, getting out and then letting themselves back in?

I'm wondering if we have some sort of evolutionary sewer system frog here. I didn't get a real good look, pretty big, about the size of the averages ladies palm. Could it be a cane toad?


Tadpoles in the toilet tank.

decrepit
WA, 12408 posts
11 Dec 2013 7:49PM
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dan111984 said..

Tadpoles in the toilet tank.



No tank it's on mains sewerage, so hopefully Mums white king trick will persuade it to go elsewhere.

But I guess somebody in the neighbourhood has flushed their kids tadpole collection.

saltiest1
NSW, 2510 posts
11 Dec 2013 11:22PM
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i see frogs in loos and gully traps a bit. im an unashamed frog fan so always try to free them.

sn
WA, 2775 posts
11 Dec 2013 10:01PM
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decrepit said..

dan111984 said..

Tadpoles in the toilet tank.



No tank it's on mains sewerage, so hopefully Mums white king trick will persuade it to go elsewhere.

But I guess somebody in the neighbourhood has flushed their kids tadpole collection.


I dont think Dan meant a septic tank - more likely the cistern tank, although you will probably find frogs in a septic system too if your mum had one.

stephen



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