Thousands of Rana Catesbeiana...what to do...PLEASE HELP...ADVISE!!

[Froggiefressh]

Also I know might be a stupid question, but I read some said you can and some say you can't get warts from frogs or toads, from their pee, is said to carry the virus.

So does frog or toad pee or some other amphibian carry the wart virus?

I've been handling toads and frogs for over 10+ years and have never had warts.

[newb8]

I've been handling toads and frogs for over 10+ years and have never had warts.

how many times have you been peed on? and by what frog or toad?

[Froggiefressh]

how many times have you been peed on? and by what frog or toad?

Haha too many times to count unfortunately, Mostly Michigan native frogs, but quite a few others too. I used to have a white tree frog that liked to pee on people.

[wesleybrouwer]

It's just a myth you can get warts from it.
The "pee" is for most part just water
They squirt this out when they get scared or need to hunt.
By squeezing out the fluid they loose a lot of weight instantly, this can save them in much cases close to half their weight in matter of a second.
Aboriginals in the outback use this mechanism to drink in times water is scarce by making the frogs squirt the water out.
It won't hurt you since the actual urine is strongly diluted.

[newb8]

i hope that’s right, that’s why i wore rubber gloves when i handled them before, some people who deal with toads say toads pee carries the wart virus, frog don’t, this I heard many times, I so hope its not true though.

[wesleybrouwer]

I'm positive it's just a myth.
The warts on the back of the toad are just glands for most part, it has nothing to do with the virus causing warts in human.
It is best to not touch you're animals tho, so i guess not bad such a myth is persistent
If you wear gloves, you need to get the latex ones without the dust in it, not sure how you guys call them but guess someone else can tell you that,
and moisten them a bit before handling if you really need to.

By the way, if i were you i'd not raise all of them.
Any idea on the amount of food you are going to need to raise the froglets?

[newb8]

i used latex no power gloves the same i use when i work on my car, the pool is 22'x15' inside flat floor, 5' of water, i have not planned on feeding them, but then i was thinking about buying a bag of fish food and feed them all to get as many in the wild as i can, i live in the country with a active 10' wide creek in back yard, which i was thinking about putting the tadpoles in the creek, but i think they may need still water, what do you all think?

[newb8]

this is the frogs i have in my pool, same link as above, but easyier to watch, same noise, are there any other frog that look and sound like that in georgia?