Frog question

wildherbalian85 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-07-2009, 12:15 AM

Why would a frog venture into the house??

I just found a frog in the hallway sat on a box looking into the front room, sat next to the frog was 1 of our border collies looking equally as confused as i was

Cotham Marble · #2 (**permalink**) 12-07-2009, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by wildherbalian85

Why would a frog venture into the house??

I just found a frog in the hallway sat on a box looking into the front room, sat next to the frog was 1 of our border collies looking equally as confused as i was

I don't think frogs have the capacity to distinguish 'houses' from any other part of their environment - there's unlikely to be anything in their instinctual programming that would particulalrly say 'this is dangerous', 'there's no food here' or 'there'll be nowhere to hide'. Though having found on several occasions a frog sat in the middle of my kitchen floor, I must admit ,that from an urbanised human perspective, frogs do look very 'out of place' in a house.

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