Nik
Well-Known Member
We have tried relocating our hot tub frog a couple of times now. She keeps coming right back to the hot tub within a day. This is despite us hiking away (fifteen minute walk and down a hill to a very nice stream with lots of coverage and foliage and good eating for her). We release her to this great little natural frog habitat and hike back to the house. By the next morning she has always found her way back.
I am sure she is getting rather frustrated with us but the thing is next week the hot tub guy comes to flush out our tub, clean it and service it and add the new lid on top... Once that happens our tub will be inhabitable for her and we will be using it at temperatures I am sure aren't healthy for a little frog.
Do any of you have any advice? How hard is it to build a frog pond? Would she use a frog pond if we made her one? Is it possible to get one ready for her in less than a week?
If it is relevant I am fairly certain this is a coastal tailed frog and therefore female (because no tail).
Also here are some new cute pics of our little hot tub frog.
fyi this photo above ^ My husband said "That photo isn't very flattering of her. She is bending her head weird".... I happen to think she is adorable in the photo.
The other item I could use some advice on.... last night our dogs found an injured bird in the yard. It took some persuasion for them to back off from it. It kept panicking whenever they got to close and it couldn't fly and was limping around on one foot. It would panic when we got too close as well so we let it be as soon as it made it to some brush to hide in.
As of this morning it is still in the yard. Though when we got too close it panicked and found a new hiding spot. We aren't sure exactly where it is now but it is in the yard somewhere hiding again. This morning it was able to fly a very short distant along the ground and it seems to have a mate. The mate flies near us and starts cheeping loudly whenever we get to close to the bird's hiding spot to try to distract us.
We set out a bowl of water in case it can't get to a water source. Should I put out bird seed or something also? Is there anything else I should do to give it a better chance of healing up and making it? I really don't want another dead bird in the yard if I can avoid it. :/
I am sure she is getting rather frustrated with us but the thing is next week the hot tub guy comes to flush out our tub, clean it and service it and add the new lid on top... Once that happens our tub will be inhabitable for her and we will be using it at temperatures I am sure aren't healthy for a little frog.
Do any of you have any advice? How hard is it to build a frog pond? Would she use a frog pond if we made her one? Is it possible to get one ready for her in less than a week?
If it is relevant I am fairly certain this is a coastal tailed frog and therefore female (because no tail).
Also here are some new cute pics of our little hot tub frog.
fyi this photo above ^ My husband said "That photo isn't very flattering of her. She is bending her head weird".... I happen to think she is adorable in the photo.
The other item I could use some advice on.... last night our dogs found an injured bird in the yard. It took some persuasion for them to back off from it. It kept panicking whenever they got to close and it couldn't fly and was limping around on one foot. It would panic when we got too close as well so we let it be as soon as it made it to some brush to hide in.
As of this morning it is still in the yard. Though when we got too close it panicked and found a new hiding spot. We aren't sure exactly where it is now but it is in the yard somewhere hiding again. This morning it was able to fly a very short distant along the ground and it seems to have a mate. The mate flies near us and starts cheeping loudly whenever we get to close to the bird's hiding spot to try to distract us.
We set out a bowl of water in case it can't get to a water source. Should I put out bird seed or something also? Is there anything else I should do to give it a better chance of healing up and making it? I really don't want another dead bird in the yard if I can avoid it. :/