Bamboo
Well-Known Member
Baby frogs, that is...
So my grandmother stopped by today and she brought with her 4 young tadpoles and a small snail. Apparently, one of her co-workers found a bunch of frog eggs in her watergarden. She didn't want them in there, but she said she didn't have the heart to kill them, so she brought them in the house. When they hatched she fed them and played with them. However, she doesn't want to keep them, and apparently my grandmother had been talking about how she and my 5 year old cousin went on a nature walk a few weeks ago and he really liked seeing the frogs. I guess this lady decided that my cousin should have a few tadpoles, so she brought them into work with her in a plastic bag and left them with my grandmother. She knows that my cousin isn't allowed to have pets, so she didn't know what to do with them. I guess she figured that I would know what to do with them, so she bought a goldfish kit and brought them out to me.
...but now I don't know what to do. These are obviously wild-born babies, but they've been treated as pets their whole life. I've been trying to replicate a natural enviroment, but they don't quite seem to get it. They've been hand fed all their life, so now everytime I walk by they swim to the top, like fish do expecting to be fed. They don't seem to understand the concept of the algae I put in there from them to eat. The lady told my grandmother not to worry, because they're very tame...and they are. They're not scared of me at all, like they should be...in fact, like I said, they sort of depend on me coming around. I was thinking of calling Natural Resources, but I don't know what they can do if they've been tamed. I don't want them to be "forced" back into the wild if they're just going to die because they don't know how to find they're own food. That doesn't seem right to me...humans created this problem, so we should be the ones to fix it by making sure they live long, happy lives. I also don't want to get my grandmother, her friend or myself in trouble for harvesting and keeping a native species as a pet.
Either way, they're cute little buggers, that's for sure
I've been looking through diffrent websites, trying to figure out what species they are...they sort of look like Spring Peepers, but that may just be because I love Spring Peepers so I'm seeing what I want to see lol. I thought the would be Northern Leopard Frogs since they're so common around here, but they don't really look like it at all.
So my grandmother stopped by today and she brought with her 4 young tadpoles and a small snail. Apparently, one of her co-workers found a bunch of frog eggs in her watergarden. She didn't want them in there, but she said she didn't have the heart to kill them, so she brought them in the house. When they hatched she fed them and played with them. However, she doesn't want to keep them, and apparently my grandmother had been talking about how she and my 5 year old cousin went on a nature walk a few weeks ago and he really liked seeing the frogs. I guess this lady decided that my cousin should have a few tadpoles, so she brought them into work with her in a plastic bag and left them with my grandmother. She knows that my cousin isn't allowed to have pets, so she didn't know what to do with them. I guess she figured that I would know what to do with them, so she bought a goldfish kit and brought them out to me.
...but now I don't know what to do. These are obviously wild-born babies, but they've been treated as pets their whole life. I've been trying to replicate a natural enviroment, but they don't quite seem to get it. They've been hand fed all their life, so now everytime I walk by they swim to the top, like fish do expecting to be fed. They don't seem to understand the concept of the algae I put in there from them to eat. The lady told my grandmother not to worry, because they're very tame...and they are. They're not scared of me at all, like they should be...in fact, like I said, they sort of depend on me coming around. I was thinking of calling Natural Resources, but I don't know what they can do if they've been tamed. I don't want them to be "forced" back into the wild if they're just going to die because they don't know how to find they're own food. That doesn't seem right to me...humans created this problem, so we should be the ones to fix it by making sure they live long, happy lives. I also don't want to get my grandmother, her friend or myself in trouble for harvesting and keeping a native species as a pet.
Either way, they're cute little buggers, that's for sure
I've been looking through diffrent websites, trying to figure out what species they are...they sort of look like Spring Peepers, but that may just be because I love Spring Peepers so I'm seeing what I want to see lol. I thought the would be Northern Leopard Frogs since they're so common around here, but they don't really look like it at all.
