cats and frogs

[actionfinch]

I arrived home to see the neighbours cat sitting by the pond, watching the frogs, and trying to paw them from the pond.... I take it , it was only playing,and not wanting to eat them..

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by actionfinch

I arrived home to see the neighbours cat sitting by the pond, watching the frogs, and trying to paw them from the pond.... I take it , it was only playing,and not wanting to eat them..

Cats dont PLAY...they KILL...LOL

[RobinP]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Cats dont PLAY...they KILL...LOL

Unfortunately, that is true. Anything that moves is fair game to yer moggie.

[tom00_uk]

wait till the next generation leave the pond and jump around the lawn, the cats go made with the opportunities to play

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by actionfinch

I arrived home to see the neighbours cat sitting by the pond, watching the frogs, and trying to paw them from the pond.... I take it , it was only playing,and not wanting to eat them..

If you creep up behind it push it in then it will not sit there again..

[jeremiah]

Young fit cats love jumping frogs.

You will soon learn to recognise the scream of a frog in your garden.
Your neighbours will be hearing it too - probably coming from behind their sofa.

Luckily, frogs are very good at playing dead, so the cat will leave them alone eventually, and most survive, your neighbours will just have to pick them up and put them back in the garden. Or keep the cat indoors for the next two or three years...

[~T~]

Originally Posted by jeremiah

Young fit cats love jumping frogs.

You will soon learn to recognise the scream of a frog in your garden.
Your neighbours will be hearing it too - probably coming from behind their sofa.

Luckily, frogs are very good at playing dead, so the cat will leave them alone eventually, and most survive, your neighbours will just have to pick them up and put them back in the garden. Or keep the cat indoors for the next two or three years...

You do get plenty of cats that specialise in frog killing though.

[jeremiah]

"You do get plenty of cats that specialise in frog killing though."

Yes. My two tried (when much younger). Luckily, they always brought them into the house and were always totally thrown when the frog flipped itself over belly-up and went stiff. (So was I, at first). Nearly all of them survived.

[~T~]

Originally Posted by jeremiah

"You do get plenty of cats that specialise in frog killing though."

Yes. My two tried (when much younger). Luckily, they always brought them into the house and were always totally thrown when the frog flipped itself over belly-up and went stiff. (So was I, at first). Nearly all of them survived.

As a kid I had a pond with a thriving frog population and a cat that wasnt interested in frogs (even when young). I got new neighbours who had this big fat fluffy cat that basically went on a frog killing spree and would even sit in my pond. I hated that cat.

[dampflippers]

I think it depends on the cat.
One that visits my garden I caught on camera firstly trying to catch the mating frogs.
Then it hooked up some spawn and started to eat it. It then kept coming back so I had to put tubs where it sat to reach it. Caviar for cats!

Someone along the road told me this same cat killed all the frogs in their little pond, so they filled it in because they couldn't bear to see it. I wish I had been asked about it first because I would have suggested suspened taut netting (with space under for frogs and hedgehogs) which I'm sure would have deterred it. To me it was like throwing the baby out with the bath water.