Quote Originally Posted by spazzum View Post
besides putting your frog on a diet my friend and I exercise our frogs. yah i know it sounds wrong but we do touch them.. pretty much play with them. We use a small room with easy to clean floors(poop will happen :P) and we make lots of ramps and things to climb through and yes we do disinfect everything xD we cover everything in water so that the frogs skin doesn't get irritated and we set a bowl of water in the middle of the room so its easy for them to get to. we pick up as many frogs as we can and try to get them to balance on our arms and we set tree frogs up on the walls so they have to climb down themself we put frogs inside of logs with worms on one side so they have to crawl for their food and we have glass sheets that we dunk in water and put a frog on and tilt the glass so they have to climb up the glass to stay on top. The water frogs are a little different... for them we drop tubes in their tank that they can swim through and tiny hoops they can go through. Once i even did a circus act with on of my white tree frogs. I made a duck tape tie and tied it on his head with this rubbery wet stuff that doesn't hurt frogs. I put my finger on one side of a hoop and he would jump through. I held my finger in the sky and he would jump onto it. i put him on my shoulder and walked around and he didnt move an inch. Suprisingly you can actualy train frogs. They don't ever get what you want them to do and they're not like dogs at all. I baited my fringer with what looked like a worm and the frog would go after it. Now the frog will go after my finger without the bait. Most people tell you not to handle your frog so not everyone should do this but if your a cautios and are good at getting things clean then you could probaly do this.
I'm not trolling or trying to put you down, but I would never do this. First off covering everything in water is not disinfecting anything. If they're any chemicals on the floor or on the wall or even on the "ramps" and what not, it will be absorbed through your frog's skin. Even handling your frogs without gloves poses a big health risk to the animal. Even the most cautious people cannot get rid of harmful substances. In my opinion if my cranwelli or any other frog needs exercise they will exercise themselves. Exercising your frogs like this will probably do nothing for them, but shorten there lives. Frogs are observational animals only besides using gloves, but why even do that if you don't have too? You're only causing more stress which will ultimately lead to death. If that doesn't bother you, then you should not be keeping frogs. Once again I'm not trying to be that guy who has to put his two cents in, but I felt this is needed for you and future frog keepers!