Taming a tree frog

[artes]

I occasionally do photo shoots with Froggie too. My other frogs aren't quite as comfortable with me as Froggie is (though Toadstool is close). Some frogs take a lot of work, some are comfortable right away. Just do your best to escape proof the place you're playing with her just in case, and if she seems scared/uneasy put her back in the tank and try again a day or two later.

[LilyPad]

Thank you, I will see how it goes!

[LilyPad]

Should I take this as a bad sign?? I let her crawl onto my hand, and brought her slowly out of her cage, She was resting on the top of my hand....and then peed on me!! I'm guessing that is not the sign of a happy relaxed frog. I put her back in and will leave her alone for a while.

[DonLisk]

Warm Hand

[UncleChester]

The peeing is self defense- it is supposed to taste bad and can cause irritation if you get it in the eyes. (Note- I have no first hand knowledge of this as my general procedure has always been to neither taste pee nor to put it in my eyes).

I'm also fairly convinced that part of their self defense when picked up is to stick to you like the Millennium Falcon on a star destroyer until they have a good chance to escape. This is based on the many, many wild ones that I've handled to move out of danger (i.e. the lawn mower, whipper snipper, top of a closing door, etc). Once picked up, they tend to stick to you like glue, tame or wild, and I've walked around with wild Grays on my shoulder.

They will eventually get used to some handling, I do usually take my grays out of their tank when I feed them mealworms or waxworms (a couple of times a month) and they don't generally pee on me anymore (worm feeding time is also usually photo shoot time or cage maintenance time). Take it slow, and don't force the handling. Remember you should have her for many years to come so you've got lots of time to get familiar

[artes]

My frogs still pee on me occasionally. Its either defensive just in case, or its because your hand was warm and snuggley. I just wipe it off and keep playing unless it looks like it was defensive (if she looks like a pissed off froggie, assume it was defensive - if she looks normal, assume it was warm hand syndrome).