Help! Need some answers

[kellie]

hah .. that's so cute! i remember last year in the late spring when all of the tadpoles started morphing, there were about 100 or so tiny little toadlets in the stairwell to where my basement sliding glass door is, all hopping around. there's a creek and river in my backyard where they all lived as tadpoles. it's quite a walk from there and it's amazing that all these teeny toadlets made the walk, ehr .. hop, to where my basement door is. the basement door is like 5 or 6 steps down from where the lawn is, sort of like a bi-level? like, you walk out my basement door and you can see out, but you're like 4ft down and have to walk up the stairs to be at ground level. i had to help them all out, cuz there's no way for them to get out .. but, they always made their way back down.

[lisa828]

Thanks for all your input...It is really cool to get to just watch them do their thing and the more I observe the more I really enjoy the toads! It's funny because having a creek going through my backyard I get all kinds of friends that stop by and see the frogs hanging on the edge of the water all the time...I also have a pool and on Saturday rescued a little toadlet from the pool filter...he was wiped out when I got him out...I put him under a bush and stayed there for a day and then he moved on. Then found a salamander swimming in the pool and my 2 year old son put him back in the creek.

The craziest thing I have seen so far was the HUGE Snapper turtles that made their way up the creek and in my mulch to bury their eggs....we had 3 stop by but one of them was so big-head, body, tail...it looked like something pre-historic! In addition, we have a lab named Scratchy who is in love with his new home, a cat Tailey who thinks she is a LION...and our Koi are in temporary housing until we get our pond up and running...it is just crazy...my house is like a mini zoo!! Bunnies, nosy chipmucks, a robins nest and a sparrow nest in my outside light...we only moved about 5 minutes from our old home but since we are backed up to a reservior we just have everything hanging around!!! My son just loves it and so do we

[Eel Noob]

If it was me I would help get them out. I rescued a toad out my parents' window well once.

[lisa828]

Now I am torn Eel!! I have a board set up like a ramp in the window well that is about 2 ft deep and built stones like steps for them to hop out...but only one did. I can see maybe one jumping down there and getting stuck but 5?? Yet the other window well there is none...but now they just hide and play with the stone steps but don't hop out...I even put them on the board (like a ramp) and they don't hop out....so does anyone have any thoughts about this? The bottom is small stones and they have plenty of food...I watch them at night eating all the bugs and slugs...I am torn, should I just pick them up and let them all go?