I have what i think is a cane toad that comes into my garden every night and eats the beatles. What should I do about it if anything, and dont say hit it with a golf club please lol
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an axe then? deffo hit it with something

You are joking I am only brave enough to look at it through a window

you sure it is a cane toad? we have some big and noisy tree frogs

No not sure but looked at pictures and it sure looks like one, but its small.

there are a few native Frog and 'toadlets' which can look similar to a small cane toad, especially if you are not familiar with them.

Cane toads start small and grow so size is no guide unless they are very big.

Don't kill it unless you are sure as some native frogs are now quite rare.....sometimes as a result of cane toad predation.

You should be able to find pictures on the internet.

I have found a few cane toads in my garden.

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We had 8 in our garden one night, the Aussie neighbor "took care of them" for us. Think his golf clubs were used to speed up their removal.

Old style witch test

Give it to a dog , if the dog spits it out and dies, its a cane toad, otherwise the dog eats it and is fine ( except for the frog )

The most humane way to kill juvenile and adult cane toads is to catch them and put them into a secure container with air holes (plastic takeaway food containers are ideal). Put the container in a refrigerator overnight which causes the toad to go into a coma-like state. Then move the container to the freezer the next morning and freeze until the next garbage collection day or freeze it for a couple days and then bury them in the backyard compost bin or garden bed.

Taken from http://www.fdrproject.org/pages/TDdispose.htm

That's the way to do it.

TP,you sound like The Blue Mountain's answer to Dexter

Who the fluck is Dexter?

I just don't like killing animals inhumanely. I can't believe people bash them with golf clubs. It's disgusting. They're still animals. Just because they're a pest doesn't give people the right to be cruel to them....

My prefered method is to impale them with a garden fork.

Modern Cane toads seem to have evolved and are much faster than their reputations would have you believe. They are also tough little critters, if you pull them off the fork immediately after impaling they'll just hop away. So either make REALLY sure you're fork action severs the spinal chord, or prop the garden fork up against a wall (prongs up) so the toad cant hop off its prong and disappear.

Humane? no of course not - but at least you know its dead by the following morning!

(BTW: Excercise caution with cane toads, the white excretions from glands behind the ears can squirt a bit of distance when they're squashed and can cause permanent eye damage if you're unlucky!)

Don't get me wrong.I'm with you.Your talking to a guy who would spend 30 min putting flying beetle's back on their feet.In Perth they would fly in at night, hit the window and end up on their back's.They were unable to right themselves.
Dexter:He's a vigilante serial killer.Only kill's bad guy's ,usually involves a well thought out, complicated process.It's good show.You should check it out.

I haven't watched tv for nearly a year now, but I might check it out if I get bored one night. Thanks.