A Year With Frog and Toad

The other day my cat knocked my fire bellied toad’s tank down. The toad is missing now and I searched all over my house. This type of toad is semi-poiseness but not deadly. If this has happened to you please explain what happened to your cat or dog.

Never had an animal eat a semi poisonous animal, but my dog did once chew up my box turtle. Poor little girl had to be super glued back together and on antibiotics for a while. I would check with your vet and keep a close eye on your cat. While they may not be deadly to humans, your kitty is much smaller than you and the amount of toxins ingested may still be dangerous. Even if your cat didn’t eat the toad but just mouthed or pawed it, it still could have ingested some of the toxins. Good luck

how many fire belly toads can you house in a 10 gallon tank? also how do u sex them? give me as much info as u can. thank u so much.

I wouldn’t keep more than two FBTs in a cage of that size. That’s actually pushing it for me. It’s difficult to get a proper heat gradient in any tank smaller than 20 gallons. In a 20 gallon tank, however, I would say 4, maybe five toads could be housed comfortably.

Some care sheets will allow for up to 4 toads in a 10 gallon tank. In my opinion, this is a mistake. They aren’t as territorial as some species of amphibian, but they can still have aggression issues. When you have too many of them in a small area, they can fight, or a dominant toad can intimidate other toads into erratic behavior or even into not eating.

If you are going to keep more than one in a 10 gallon, make sure to watch them carefully. If one toad is growing and another is staying small, or behaving aggressively or unreasonably afraid, you may need to separate them.

The other major issue with a tank that small is that, as I mentioned, it’s hard to get a good heat gradient, which all reptiles and amphibians need to be able to perform natural functions properly. For instance, they often need a specific temperature to digest their food after they’ve eaten. A whole different one is needed for them to rest properly, etc.

Ok, I’ve had some frogs comming into my house (maybe toads - I dunno the difference). I don’t really mind - in fact I quite like them.

Anyway I put them out side because I thought they’d die inside (I do often find dryed up frogs around). But they just keep comming back in. I don’t want them to die, but they clearly like it here.

So, at the moment he’s in a small plasic box with a bit of water. It was a bit upset at first but now it’s calmed down. I don’t know if this means it’s happy to be there - or if it’s just got used to it.

What should I do?

Taking it farther from the house and release it would be number 1.

In order to keep it in captivity you would need to find out what species it is and do a little research on it. I assume it is a toad (matches the description you give). You could get a 20 gallon long aquarium and screen lid (a 10 gallon may work depending on the species) you want to use peat and Sphagnum moss mix as the bedding to encourage humidity and digging by the toad. You will also want a large easy accessable water dish. Give the toad places to hide such as under rocks or logs. And feed it red worms, and crickets about every other day.

I found this frog/Toad at my house and i was wondering what kind is it and what does it eat and where would it live? What’s the Habitat of it?
Is it dangerous? It is right now next to my fish pond.

I live in SW Kansas

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Thanks!

The others are correct, it is a Woodhouse’s Toad.
They eat small insects and other invertebrates. They live in many types of prairie habitat.
They are not dangerous. Please don’t kill it.

We have searched the entire house for him. Any ideas of what we might be able to do to make him appear? I know this seems far-fetched but my 4 year old daughter is deparate to find "Spotty".

Dark Damp place try your bathroom in some wet towels check the cage really good to make sure he wasnt hiding
GOOD LUCK

i just found a toad at my frineds house and ive only fonud 5 rolly pollys and a retardid beetle tommorow im going to look for mor bugs to feedit until i let it go but until then thats all she got

Why not do the right thing and let it free outside if you don’t know how to take care of it. Let it go by a pond or something.

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It should only take a few days.Mine took 3 days.

i lost my frog in my house. It i think a fowler toad,but is very small and jumpy.how to i get it back

Make frog noises and the type of frog is a lost frog.

no…they need totally different habitats.

no…they need totally different habitats.