Daily Moan

[Saint Willy]

Life may be a bitch, but at least you didn't regale us with how much you enjoyed doing it.

would that have excited?

[BoganInParasite]

Until a few weeks back we've tolerated a few toads in our yard. They generally find a damp spot, keep to themselves and come out hunting at night. Well three weeks ago we found our female Lab in distress and foaming at the mouth. I got the wife washing her mouth out while I tried to find a source for the issue; main concern it might have been a bait. Well I find a huge brown toad that looks a little uncomfortable at put two and two together. We 'evict' it by throwing it several meters into the vacant land next door. Our Lab recovers but 24 hours later delivers a still-born puppy. So we decide we will no longer tolerate the toads. Well several days later this toad is back having somehow managed to scale an 80cm wire mesh fence. Evicted it again, this time hurled maybe 20 meters into the land on the other side. Yesterday it is back again. So again, not wanting to kill it, hurled it 20 meters across the road in front and into the land over there. Today, back again. I'd decided to put it in a bucket and take it a kilometer down to the local river but when I got back from shopping the wife announced she had thrown it down the steep land at the back of our place. We shall see if the battle of wills continues or it finally met its demise or got the message.

[Mendip]

A homing toad?

We get a few toads and if you pick them up they secrete a load of liquid on you, toxic I believe which protects them from predators.

I've always left the dogs to discover how bad tasting toads are, and after their first experience I've never known a dog to go back a second time. We have a new puppy just now and after a week she's already learnt to leave the toads alone.

Sorry for your dog's distress and that she lost the puppy but I must admit surprise at an adult dog messing with a toad.

[Cujo]

Until a few weeks back we've tolerated a few toads in our yard. They generally find a damp spot, keep to themselves and come out hunting at night. Well three weeks ago we found our female Lab in distress and foaming at the mouth. I got the wife washing her mouth out while I tried to find a source for the issue; main concern it might have been a bait. Well I find a huge brown toad that looks a little uncomfortable at put two and two together. We 'evict' it by throwing it several meters into the vacant land next door. Our Lab recovers but 24 hours later delivers a still-born puppy. So we decide we will no longer tolerate the toads. Well several days later this toad is back having somehow managed to scale an 80cm wire mesh fence. Evicted it again, this time hurled maybe 20 meters into the land on the other side. Yesterday it is back again. So again, not wanting to kill it, hurled it 20 meters across the road in front and into the land over there. Today, back again. I'd decided to put it in a bucket and take it a kilometer down to the local river but when I got back from shopping the wife announced she had thrown it down the steep land at the back of our place. We shall see if the battle of wills continues or it finally met its demise or got the message.

I've found the sharp endge of a shovel to the neck solves that problem.

[BoganInParasite]

She may well have learnt her lesson Mendip. The trouble with Labs is they have such a strong natural instinct to get things into their mouth.

A homing toad?

We get a few toads and if you pick them up they secrete a load of liquid on you, toxic I believe which protects them from predators.

I've always left the dogs to discover how bad tasting toads are, and after their first experience I've never known a dog to go back a second time. We have a new puppy just now and after a week she's already learnt to leave the toads alone.

Sorry for your dog's distress and that she lost the puppy but I must admit surprise at an adult dog messing with a toad.

[BoganInParasite]

Think you have it right Cujo. No toad invades my place four times and gets away with it.

I've found the sharp endge of a shovel to the neck solves that problem.

[strigils]

Our Lab recovers but 24 hours later delivers a still-born puppy.

Sorry to read that BiP, sad news. As Mendip said its unusual for dogs to have a chew on them, they usually avoid them after a snif and rarely a lick/nip. She'll not do it again and trying to eliminate all toads is probably impossible. When you do get a pup then introduce it to a toad in a controlled way and put them off for life.

[OhOh]

How do you know it's the same toad?.

[Dillinger]

Maybe the toad was the aggressor

[Latindancer]

An oldie but a goodie, for those who may not yet have seen this....it's very funny.

[jaiyenyen]

Careful with that 'F' word.

[BoganInParasite]

We don't. But it is by far the biggest toad we've had in the yard, been the same size over the past three weeks and returns to the exact same spot in an elevated pot next to our front steps. Circumstantial evidence at best but think we are on safe ground. Has not returned today.

How do you know it's the same toad?.

[Saint Willy]

That’s good news then

[panama hat]

Has not returned today.

Did Cujo come over for a visit?

[BoganInParasite]

No Cujo and no returned toad this morning. The wife found another smaller one in the back yard yesterday and yeeted it over the back fence and down the slope so the big b@stard didn't feel lonely.

Did Cujo come over for a visit?

[Mendip]

I spent ages looking for that 'Extremely interesting family thread...' or some such name, but couldn't find it.

But this is also a moan, and a big one. My little girl announced that she's 'gone off' pink... yep, she's growing up.

I don't mind a couple of days painting... but my little girl is growing up...

[BoganInParasite]

The locals burnt the lower ends of both the Yo and Pua River valleys to our north last night. Huge areas burning throughout the night, we could see the flame front climbing the steep ridges and gradually moving down the valley. We could smell burning from the early afternoon but with the wind coming largely from the south suggests they also lit one or both river valleys to our south as well. All illegal and to promote later mushroom growth. Of course no-one will be bother by inquiries from the BiB. Sickening.

[AntRobertson]

I spent ages looking for that 'Extremely interesting family thread...' or some such name, but couldn't find it.

https://teakdoor.com/members-only/23...hildren+Thread (The Extremely Fascinating Babies & Children Thread*)

[Klondyke]

Of course no-one will be bother by inquiries from the BiB. Sickening.

Luckily, Nan is not on the world map of pm2.5, so it will not steal the top ranking of Chiang Mai...

[cyrille]

It will also get a lot fewer mentions on here.

[havnfun]

I'm using this thread to get shit off my chest that pisses me off.
One a day.

Why do people in car parks wait for you to start reversing then start walking behind your car?

Wankers!

Because of global warming.

[havnfun]

I spent ages looking for that 'Extremely interesting family thread...' or some such name, but couldn't find it.

But this is also a moan, and a big one. My little girl announced that she's 'gone off' pink... yep, she's growing up.

I don't mind a couple of days painting... but my little girl is growing up...

No disrespect, but, just an observation, Have been watching some 1990's real crime shows on youtube, ^ THAT looks like a crime scene.

[Edmond]

^ The curtains were hung.

[nidhogg]

^ The curtains were hung.

Unlike mendip according to the gardener.......

[Joe 90]

The writing is on the wall.

Good idea covering the contents of the room under the duvet to avoid paint splashes.

She' ll want a big girl lilac room next then a black teenagers room then hopefully she'll decorate it herself with murals ,print outs and posters