WE CAUGHT A FROG!!! How do we keep it alive??

[MaxVanity]

I used to live by a lake and often times would find frogs trying to cross the road, or too close to the edge of the road. When seeing this I would pick them up and walk them down to the bank and set them by the bank. I never tossed them in the water I just sat them close enough to the lake to show them where the water source was. This in general was saving their lives and leaving them where they belong.

Though she found the frog in SC she could have still set it loose outside where she was after she went home. I'm from illinois and find green tree frogs all of the time out here.

[yoshimi]

I used to live by a lake and often times would find frogs trying to cross the road, or too close to the edge of the road. When seeing this I would pick them up and walk them down to the bank and set them by the bank. I never tossed them in the water I just sat them close enough to the lake to show them where the water source was. This in general was saving their lives and leaving them where they belong.

Though she found the frog in SC she could have still set it loose outside where she was after she went home. I'm from illinois and find green tree frogs all of the time out here.

True, I think she's in Georgia. Would have been preferable. That's sweet about the frogs. When you see actual turtles trying to cross the road (as there are around here from time to time), you have to put them on the side they were trying to get to, or they'll keep trying to cross the road. There was one struggling to get up onto the curb and my bf stopped the car so I could get out and bring it up onto hill where down below there's a creek.
Wherever Banjo was headed, I should've just let her go there. She wasn't in immediate danger, but when I scooped her up and looked at her, I just kept walking. Now I'm responsible for her. And I don't know where she was going, or coming from. She was pretty far from the pond, on sidewalk on a corner in a residential area. Across the street was train tracks, another street, and then more houses. Someone's yard, even my own, would probably have been just fine, but when I did take her out and sit her on the ground, she just sat there and looked so tiny. And there were suspicious birds about. Discovered later they were only there to eat the wild strawberries.

I agree. Though still, sometimes they do need our help. Something to keep in mind.

I've learned the hard way you've got to know when you can help and when it's just going to be heartbreak. When I lived closer to the city, saw a baby pigeon under an overpass, trying to cross a small street, just flapping his wings. Picked him up and noticed his beak was bent sideways a bit so I took him home. He couldn't fly but he scared the **** out of me trying while I slept. Borrowed a cage used to transport dogs and he was good for about a month maybe. Thought he was eating, but came home from work one day to find him dying. Even tho he needed to be put down, rather than call Animal Control, I took a cab to Angell Memorial in Boston, with him in a wooden wine box and wrapped in my "emo kids do it better" t-shirt. They were so nice there, and as the guy turned the corner with the box, I was in tears. The people around felt bad, but if they knew what was in the box, I'd be outted for the total weirdo that I truly am. Then again, some of the tears were due to how kind the staff was. Treating my pigeon like they would any other creature in need. Ah, Spike, miss you buddy.

*I'm not sure what bad word I used there... I do it without noticing, sorry. I'll try to proof-read more.

[yoshimi]

Actually, that bothers me a LOT. At the point where they stopped caring for him, maybe at the introduction of that monster cricket, they could've let both Turtle and the cricket go. He'd have had a 100% better shot that way. If she'd stuck around on here, could people have convinced her? Maybe. Would she have stayed even if there was all around support for her new frog endeavor, tho? No idea. And that's an unlikely situation anyway. Now my 1st thoughts toward someone with a caught frog who doesn't know how to take care of it will be, "let it go!" but it will depend on their attitudes and potential dedication tho. Ok, I have roaches to pack and mail before post office closes.

[Lija]

rest in peace Turtle in your green heaven

that is such a sad story and that is so important to repeat endlessly live creatures are not toys, you can't just take them out of their home and do whatever, i hope lesson learned here. i hope.....

Heather i couldn't agree more, sometime wild ones need our help, but if not, we should let them be and Crystal, you know I'm sure we all here are weirdos of some sorts to majority of people for just how much we love and care for a frogs

[yoshimi]

that is such a sad story and that is so important to repeat endlessly live creatures are not toys, you can't just take them out of their home and do whatever, i hope lesson learned here. i hope.....

Amen to that!