Is it a bad idea to pick and handle your Pacman?

[Ebenezer Frothingham]

Amphibians are not cuddly pets like cats or dogs- Mine has an absolute aversion to being touched, as I assume my frog is terrified he/she will be eaten.
I've been watching some Pacman frog videos made by frog owners on Yotube where owners pick up and handle their pacmans. Is that a good or bad idea?

I suppose i just want my frog to be desesitized to me- right now i think he sees me as some giant creature that might eat him. I have never picked up my Pacman with my bare hands- Should I keep it that way, or is minimum handling okay? I'd like him to trust me enough to accept food from tongs..

[Poly]

The frog will eventually get used to being handled, when I first got my toad, it would pee when it was picked up, which indacted it was scared, but around a week later, it stopped, now 3 months later, it hasn't peeded since then.

I pick my toad up and set it down to feed it, then once it has been fed, I pick it back up, and put it back in it's tank. I'm sure it's used to the routine by now, it also helps if you feed your frog at the same time every day, I feed my toad at lunch every day, and it will stay burried under it's moss until around 11:45, then it comes up.

[Sublime]

Yeah my frog hates being picked up, he's got a little more used to the routine though. I pick him up out of his water bowl to change it, or pick him up to set him inside a feeding bin. As they get used to a more routine handling, he should start to understand and calm down a little bit. You can pick up your pacman with your bare hands, just not too much handling or it will get stressed. The only time I handle my frog as was mentioned above, other than that I just watch him for enjoyment. I have to cup my pixie with the top of my hand so he doesn't jump out, when I'm about to set him in his tank I open up my hand and he stays on it so hopefully he gets more used to me. I'm sure yours will settle in.

[Sublime]

By the way a lot of frog owners are not very smart to put it nicely on youtube, you'll see them sometimes poking their pacmans to make them get mad or feed them on ridiculous bedding like rocks, bark, moss. Or you'll see them feeding them mice regularly which is bad for their health.

[Ebenezer Frothingham]

By the way a lot of frog owners are not very smart to put it nicely on youtube, you'll see them sometimes poking their pacmans to make them get mad or feed them on ridiculous bedding like rocks, bark, moss. Or you'll see them feeding them mice regularly which is bad for their health.

Live feedings seem to most common kind of Pacman (and Pixie) frog video on Youtube- It's fairy obvious many pacman owners are feeding their frogs mice that are much too large. I have no problems feeding pacmans mice- thats what they eat (and as an occasional treat) but the videos where they eat mice, where people in the backround can be heard cheering and laughing are just sadistic. I have noticed many videos of pacman frogs show dangerous examples of substrait- often moss, or fishtank gravel- sometimes, no substrait at all, and just a bare tank. Not a good thing for a burrowing frog.
There are a number of videos of sadistic pacman owners posting videos on Youtube of them poking their frog to get it to bark and hiss. Very uncool- why would someone enjoy tormenting their pet? I feel sorry for those frogs. Do they do the same thing to their dog or cat? I'm reluctant to touch my pacman in any way for fear it wiull stress him out.
This is an example of a bad pacman owner:

http://youtu.be/_gbFQzsmEZQ

why would someone delibertly stress out their frog this way?
Plus a potentially lethal substrait. Stones????

Do NOT poke your pacman like this :

http://youtu.be/bC9P1EavtfU

Owners like that really anger me

[Poly]

Ornate Pacman Frog getting defensive! - YouTube

Owners like that really anger me

Agreed. Tormenting their pet frog... for entertainment!? It's terrible how these people treat there frogs!

[BG]

If you think that's sadistic, then you should see how they treat there natural resourses in south america. I saw a video on you tube people stuffing cigarettes in the pacmans mouth. After they had their laugh, they took a bat and used the frog as a baseball, nough said.

Live feedings seem to most common kind of Pacman (and Pixie) frog video on Youtube- It's fairy obvious many pacman owners are feeding their frogs mice that are much too large. I have no problems feeding pacmans mice- thats what they eat (and as an occasional treat) but the videos where they eat mice, where people in the backround can be heard cheering and laughing are just sadistic. I have noticed many videos of pacman frogs show dangerous examples of substrait- often moss, or fishtank gravel- sometimes, no substrait at all, and just a bare tank. Not a good thing for a burrowing frog.
There are a number of videos of sadistic pacman owners posting videos on Youtube of them poking their frog to get it to bark and hiss. Very uncool- why would someone enjoy tormenting their pet? I feel sorry for those frogs. Do they do the same thing to their dog or cat? I'm reluctant to touch my pacman in any way for fear it wiull stress him out.
This is an example of a bad pacman owner:

ONE PISSED OFF PACMAN!!!! - YouTube

why would someone delibertly stress out their frog this way?
Plus a potentially lethal substrait. Stones????

Do NOT poke your pacman like this :

Ornate Pacman Frog getting defensive! - YouTube

Owners like that really anger me