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Does anyone know the trick to keeping frogs out of the pool at night? I don't care that they are there, but they are really noisey. We don't really want to screen in our pool, we like getting the rays and stuff.
Anyone have any tricks to repelling them, other then catching them and bouncing them off the neighbors roof? :frog:
How about letting a few snakes loose ??? :snake:
Get a dog :)
Since we got Liquorice a few years ago critters know they cant come anywhere near the house or they get eaten LOL
She even barks at the squirrels and birds when they land near the house or run around in the tree's at the back of us near the river LOL
Regards,
Lee
Hi Chad,
I would rather have frogs then snakes. Snakes scare me.
I thought of putting a fake snake in the pool, may give that a try.
I bet Lee has some sort of solution, I know he has a big ole pool here in FL and must be experiencing the same problem.
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We have 2 Schnauzers. That hasn't worked as of yet. :dog:
How old are they?Quote:
Originally Posted by LiveTwinksCam
Have you trained them to go after critters?
Make it a gameif you havent already trained them, tell them to 'go get it' and point at whatever it is, i guarantee after a few weeks they'll be chasing anything that goes near the house, frogs, bugs, lizards, you name it :)
Make sure you 'reward' them once they do run after something and you'll be set.
Anything we want Liquorice to do we turn in to a game and within a week or so she catches on that when she is 'good' get either gets a goodie or gets love.. Dogs LOVE to please humans :)
Regards,
Lee
ewwww I am not going to train my babies to eat frogs. They are inside dogs, don't want them bringing in dead frogs or frog dna into the house. eeww.. Thanks for the suggestion though Lee.
YOUR snake scares me :innocent:Quote:
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LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by LiveTwinksCam
You dont train them to eat them, train them to chase them away haha
Regards,
Lee
my boss had that problem, he went out and got a pool cover for his inground pool
Instead of getting rid of the frogs, I think the real problem is the noise they make while to are trying to sleep. I might suggest getting a loud box fan, so this way it will droned out the noise made by the frogs. The cover for you pool could be a pain in the ass to fuck with, as well as fucking up your view of the pool. Other than getting a dog out their thats barking will be about as bad as the frogs, covering the pool, or adding more chemicals too the pool water that would burn your eyes ECT I do not really see any other solutions.
lol even a screen dosnt keep them out, they get in when the doors are opened and i think they breed in the shrubs around the pool.
I am regually rescuing them before i have to drag theire waterlogged remains out the filter basket :)
what is a bitch is when you have a black racer in there. they move fast, luckily seth loves snakes and to wach him chasing one around in the pool is worth a video :)
only way i knwo is to sprinkly FrogBgone around the pool, should last a week per application and you can get it at home depot
Thank you all for your help. Zac I love you dude! That is awesome news! Didn't know about FrogBGone, we will take it! Good to know about the screen also, because we didn't want to screen the pool in. Regarding the snake, no way! hahahahaha!
Jacob,
Also in FL with a Pool
The quick fix for us was to make a pond in the yard. The frogs quit going into the open pool and now hang out at the pond.
The Pond is in the back of the yard so the noise isn't an issue.
Salt water pools have less of a problem with frogs. Try leaving them a means to get out, like a plank.
we so need a webmaster lunch or soemthing in florida
maybe we can all meat at jacods around the pool and eat frog legs :)
Maybe you should try one of those electronic pest control devices, they produce sound waves that only certain animals can hear. Or you could just play really bad music to drive them away, lol
Yeah, squirrels with bazookasQuote:
Originally Posted by LiveTwinksCam
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I like IdolKnights' idea. If your property is big enough you can have a beautiful pond in the back with live frog "pets". You can watch tadpoles grow up into frogs, and have romanic dinners by the frog pond, the frogs will be happy with their new home and won't bug you by the pool. I mean, the only reason they are in your pool to begin with is because the poor things are homeless and need a place to live. Won't you take in a poor homeless frog family and give them a happy home?
http://www.froggyville.com/images/frog_sad.gif
Ack! Don's the new Sally Struthers. LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonMike
Just kidding!
You also have a cool place to do a shoot, if you trust the subject you're shooting at your home.Quote:
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Haha! Thanks for your all's feedback.
Our pool is a salt water based system, that doesn't stop them.
The pond idea will not work, the noise level would remain the same if they are in a pond or in our pool in the backyard. They would still get in the pool even if we built them a pond, there would just be frogs making loud noises in the pool and then in the pond as well. Thanks though for the idea.
I will try the FrogBGone from HomeDepot that should work. Going to head there now to investigate it.
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ROFLMAO! Too funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by DonMike
For sure! Come on down, would love to have yall and we will get rid of all of those frogs for sure then! Fresh fried Frog or BBQ Frog, General Tso's Frog and Frog Terriki!Quote:
Originally Posted by collegeboyslive
OMG i totaly made up the FrogBgone.. LOL i am imagining Jacob wandering around home depot asking for Frog B Gone to the chuckles of the garnedn center staff there ( Zac hides )
i did soem looking up on the web and actually DID find some real frog repellant ( and no, its not a pair of Lee's old socks, although that may also work )
http://www.e-bug.net/forum/messages/3890.shtml
ok i am off to hide before Jacob gets back
<--- runs after Zac with a bb gun! I am reading the posts you listed and there really is a FrogBeGone at home depot. The guy that wrote the post says it really does work, so you actually did hit it on the head.Quote:
Originally Posted by collegeboyslive
OMG, I want one of those for my living room!!!
Yeah no FrogBeGone at the home depot I went to, they have everything else, but nothing for frogs. The guy that worked there referred me to a place up the street that may have a solution for it. :frog: :(
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You do already........... whenever Jasun comes over!!!!! :)
Nah, that's a monster snake, not a scaley crocodile. Heh heh.