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  • Disturbing toads
  • chambord
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    I have a bamboo in the garden which is overgrown, out of control and I want to thin it out. Prodding around, I found this chap (And his friend in the background)

    Is it OK to disturb these at this time of the year or will I condemn them to certain death?

    bongohoohaa
    Free Member

    You can’t do no worse than I did last week, as I accidentally took one out with the lawnmower 🙁

    thecaptain
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    Toads must be happily up and about at this time of year. So long as it’s got somewhere dampish to hide it will be fine.

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    sweepy
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    I hit a toad strimming the garden once, put it in the long grass and hoped for the best.
    Few months later I was out on a kayak and when I stopped for lunch found it in the kayak, few battle scars but otherwise fine.

    suburbanreuben
    Free Member

    Cut the bamboo high so he can’t kebab himself.
    He’s done his tadpole deed. Just hoping he doesn’t get eaten by the missus.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    My god, it really is toads, all the way down.

    I was sure it was turtles.

    bongohoohaa
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    I hit a toad strimming the garden once, put it in the long grass and hoped for the best.

    My one was mortally wounded, so I grit my teeth and went over it again to put it out of it’s misery.

    CountZero
    Full Member

    Cute! I love toads, really lovely creatures! Spotted one late one night sitting right in the middle of the road, fortunately I had time to stop and picked it up and put it safely in a field the other side of a stone wall, which it would never have been able to climb.
    I love the way they’ll happily just sit in your hand without struggling, unlike frogs.

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    They most certainly are! About four yrs ago was late-night cycling and I saw one stock-still centre of a towpath as I cut through the marshes in the fog. So stopped to gently move him out of harms way. He was doing that weird moon-gazing thing, all stiff and stare-y. Anyway turns out he finally moved very quickly and then raped my (index) finger. Couldn’t shift him, Bloody horrible little bastard. I’ll never forget it. (Shudder)*

    *Edit – don’t get me wrong, I adore toads, just not in That Way.

    Ambrose
    Full Member

    Toads are great. In French, ‘Crapaud’ iirc.

    RobHilton
    Free Member

    These ones are quite disturbing

    [video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7b4spjXhw[/video]

    landslide
    Full Member

    Not quite toads, but close…

    145. Cold Snap

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