poisonous bull toads....poisonous to your family dog and cats...how to kill them?

Question

i find them in my backyard all the time and my dog loves to go after them...i tried drowning one in my pool with my pool pole net. i kept it at the bottom of the pool for probably 40 minutes at the bottom of my 10 foot pool and it was still alive...will they die if you stick them in a deep freezer? maybe i should just shoot them with a pellet gun at point blank range?

Answer 1

I had this problem too and I had to call an exterminator out and have them put something in my yard to repel them and I fear this what you are going to have to do . Down here they call them bufford frogs and yes they are poisonous and will kill your dog or cat . I hope I helped . good luck.

Answer 2

I have a really hard time believing the dog though a CHILD was a chew toy. Dogs are incredible at reading humans. Better than any species studied- dolphins, chimps, whatever. A dog knows the difference between a human being and any other object- living or not. I agree that most pits don't kill that way, but we know nothing about this pit. Most dogs won't attack babies, either. Who knows what this dog was thinking, but in a legal sense, the dog was the proximate cause of the death. Lots of things can be said about the mother (and are being said), but the dog is the reason the child died. This is why the propaganda that "all dogs can be rehabilitated" and "there are no dangerous dogs, only negligent humans" are dangerous. Yes, the mother was negligent, but a dog fit for human society isn't going to kill an infant regardless of how negligent the owner. People can hardly be blamed for going to the shelter and adopting a pit mix of indeterminate origin and bringing it home to their household to live side by side with an infant. You see every show on animal planet praising the virtues of adopting, how pits just have a bad rap, how they can be a savior by rehabilitating the poor, sweet creatures. It's ridiculous. I don't have children, so I have feel comfortable taking a gamble with shelter dogs. When I have children, my dogs will be old and trained, and any new dogs will come from a breeder who I trust and respect.

Answer 3

The toads would be poisonous to your pets, but only if your pets eat them. It wouldn't be too harmful though. Trying to drown them wasn't the best idea since they are toads which are amphibious and spend a lot of time underwater. If you really want to get rid of them you should call an exterminator.

Answer 4

My mother's husband used to shoot them with a BB gun. I generally catch them in a pool net thing and dump them in our garbage bin outside (it's deep, and it has a lid). It's a cruel way to kill them--they basically cook to death (I'm in Arizona)--but I am too much of wimp to stab them or something like that.

You're right, they are VERY dangerous to pets. My dog almost died last summer after licking one.

Answer 5

Our Yorkshire terrier got one of these. My husband came home to him choking on it, not breathing at all. He literally scooped it out of "Termites" throat and had to give him mouth to mouth on the way to the vets office. Well, even 7 years later Termite has flashbacks and seizes up-the vet said it was like a psycedelic trip. Kill the frogs however you can to prevent your animals from tripping out or worse.

Answer 6

Well there is a fun way to do it. You have force the toad swallow gun powder then put a fuse down its throat into wher e the powder is than light it

Answer 7

you tried to drown a toad? if i were you, i would put them in the freezer. you could fry them up later.

Answer 8

I know a concentrate of ascorbic acid will kill frogs.... maybe it works on toads?

Answer 9

Back home we used to stick a fire cracker in the mouth.