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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Plocket on August 25, 2004, 13:25:11

Title: Screaming Frogs
Post by: Plocket on August 25, 2004, 13:25:11
I am positive I have heard frogs screaming when my cat tries to play with them. Is this true, or my imagination going into overdrive?
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: SueT on August 25, 2004, 14:27:21
My cat likes to tap them on the head, it makes them squeal!  ::)
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: Doris_Pinks on August 25, 2004, 14:59:42
Sounds like a good name for a band! The screaming frogs! ;D
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: Plocket on August 25, 2004, 15:05:09
LOL! I don't think I would choose to listen to them though!
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: Nobbyman on August 25, 2004, 15:08:45
ha ha perhaps you are right Plocket - Sorry for doubting you!! ::)
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: viv on August 26, 2004, 10:21:25
Yes they do.  Our cats bring them in through the cat flap in the middle of the night sometimes and play with them on the kitchen floor - they don't hurt them, they are fascinated by the way they hop so they just pat them with a paw to make them move.  When the frogs get fed up they either dive into the cats' water bowl to get out of the way or scream for us to get up and move them.

Trouble is there aren't many frogs round our way and we get the same ones time and time again - it has now got to the stage where they make themselves a cup of tea while they are waiting  ;D
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: aquilegia on August 26, 2004, 10:23:32
Apparently it's only the males that scream when in danger. That's how you can tell if they are male or female when you pick them up. I've never heard any of mine screaming, so I wonder if they are all females!
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: Plocket on August 26, 2004, 10:34:33
Or you've never been nasty to them Aquilegia!
Title: Re:Screaming Frogs
Post by: Val on August 26, 2004, 19:18:50
 :'( Oh the poor things, I hate things hurt or crying. We've got some of those tall pot things, that florists put their flowers in,in the garden and they were half full of water, Frank was emptying one out and 3 frogs hopped out to. I think I'd better bring them in, they would never have got out. ;)