Getting rid of frogs
November 26th, 2006 . by JamesFrogs are PESTS! I’m sorry, but as cute as they can be from far, from close up frogs are definitely just an annoyance. I have frogs that live in my garden and in the complex where I stay.
Here are some reasons why I hate them:
- They leave their frog droppings all over the place. Which, I might add, look like rat droppings
- They sit by the light at the front door, which is a pain if you want to go out at night and you have to prevent them coming inside
- Every time I get home, I have to make sure that they are not sitting outside the garage doors, otherwise the damn frogs try jump inside when I open the garage
- I STOOD on one of them last night. NOT enjoyable!!!
- My wife HATES them (in the same way as she hates spiders and snakes) which makes them an even BIGGER pain for me
I’ve asked quite a few people how to get rid of frogs and the only thing they say is: SNAKES
Chances are slim to minus 1 that I am going to go out and get snakes to help get rid of the frogs. I’m also quite surprised the neighbourhood cats are not eating the damn things…
Either way, I don’t necessarily want to kill them, I would just like to prevent the frogs from wanting to stay on MY property. So, does ANYBODY have any ideas on how to get rid of frogs?
I also have a major frog problem. I am an animal lover ( including snakes and frogs) but I am being driven insane by the frogs that are living by my pool. The noise they make is so loud that cannot hear. We can’t hear each other speak, we can’t hear the TV ( that could be a blessing)we simply cannot relax because of the NOISE. We can’t sleep. They are little tiny brown stripy things. I don’t know what type of frog they are but I NEED them to go away and I cannot fill in my pool! Any advice would be appreciated.
I have much the same problem as Joyce in that I have a jacuzzi in the garden that these pests will not stay out of! Boiled frogs spoil the ambience of a relaxing evening in the pool. Does anyone have a reasonable solution?
These friggin’ frogs are drivin me nuts! It’s been constant roar of croaking for nearly a week. They sound like they must be the size of pumpkins, but they are just these tiny, little things. How can something that small make so much noise? From what I’ve read so far, its just a waiting game. I’m counting the days till it’s quite around here again!
Good luck. It is starting to cool down here where we are, and it seems like the frogs are getting quieter… But have you read my follow up: “Battle with the Frogs”
we have a major in house frog problem! i have read all the other letters and noone gives an answer!! we even had one upstairs in our bedroom last night! does anyone have any idea to help please.
OKC Frog Problem~
I have tons of frogs too. In the front yard and in the backyard. I don’t mind them so much because I don’t have a noise issue. Plus I have very few mosquitos (yay) However, it is difficult to get in and out of the house or garage without taking some out or with me. My issue is they are invading the dogs house so bad that the dogs can’t get in the dog house when it rains, and boy have we had some rain. I have done research and understand they are great for the environment and its a great to know my property is a safe haven. You can’t poison them, don’t want a snake or turtle, and the 3 outside cats can’t take all of them on…I just want them out of the backyard so the dogs aren’t on edge every day and night. So I decided the only thing I can do is get a jar and go catch them and move them to another location. There is a pond close by so that will be there new home. It will be getting hot soon and they frogs won’t last long. They like the cool, damp, and dark areas under plants, pots, wood pile, hay piles. etc. So baiscally you can only make the environment a discomfort so that they will leave on there own.
Wish me luck on the relocation! lol
Good Luck! Pretty cool of you to be relocating all your frogs. Let us know how it goes. Especially how long and how many frogs you moved.
I have had a lot of frogs in my house this summer. It is very unusual for me. maybe we had a wet spring? Maybe they multiplied on the gypsy moth caterpillars? They don’t bother me, I’d just like to find out how they’re getting in. I usually find them in the bathrooms or the kitchen. Are they seeking out the water once they get in, or are they coming in through drains? Last night, I came down to the kitchen in the middle of the night for a drink of water, and noticed all the paint color cards lined up on my backsplash were moved. (we’re painting soon and I’m trying to pick new colors).
I freaked out because no alse one in the house can reach where I put the cards. Then, I see a little frog sitting on my sponge. The culprit. I always scoop them up in a towel, and put them back outside. Maybe instead of putting them on my back deck, I should put on shoes and send them over to the neighbor’s house…After all, they have a pond. Maybe that’s where they’re all coming from!!
Two things that will help:
1. Reduce their food supply with regular foundation and yard insect treatment.
2. Liberal use of glue boards to trap them near entry points, patios, etc.
You can expect reduction not perfection.
We have just moved in to a new rental home. A frog has been sitting in the drain, driving me bonkers for the last 48 hours! How do I get rid of him?
My 80 year old aunt is very scared of the the frogs that sit on her porch light at her door. I’m so afraid she is going to fall one day trying to get in her home before a frog jumps on her or gets in her home. She leaves a light on when she goes off so it want be dark when she comes home. Ever time she returns there sits one to two little frogs on the lantern light at her front door. Please someone help us. They are little light green to white frogs. Please help!
I really dont like forgs, and they insist on sitting right in front of my front door. I cant even get into my own house! My sister finally advised me to pour Bleach all over the patio, you can mix it with alittle water. They stay away for a couple weeks, then you have to do it again. Also,if you use some form of pesticide I think its supposed to help.
thank you diana, this is great easy advice. we get them in the lounge! the maid is terrified!!! even my husband who used to handle them gently now slings them back on the golf course! we dont seem to have them since the weather has got warmer but i know they will be back and we will be switching to bleach on the floor.
I hate frogs and don’t like them around my house.
I found a website that suggested using a concentrated mixture of salt and water and spraying where you don,t want them to be. Also they suggested using rock salt. I will give it a go, but I first have to find out what it will do to my plants.
Hi Susan. I would definitely love it if you come back and let us all know how it goes with the salt. At least it just keeps them away, as opposed to harming them I guess…
Frogs are driving us nuts around my garden pond. Will salt harm my koi or plants? We are desperate – cannot sleep at night!
Frogs are not scary. They’re not going to attack anyone. They’re just animals trying to survive on a planet that humans think they own. Just put them back outside and step around them on your way through the door.
I have a frog in my drain and the noise echoes through the pipes and is keeping the whole family awake. Hope do I get rid of it. We cannot sleep!
i am terrified of them i was sick once when i saw one. my problemis i love my garden luv everything to do with gardening but problem i live in rainy UK and am terrified of going outsied now. HELP!!!!
I have at least one that croaks so loud, we can’t sleep. Night after night. But I won’t kill anything. I was wondering…since they communicate by sound, (with us anyway) is there maybe a noise that will drive them off? Or shut them up? Yes, isn’t it amazing that the dogs have no interest in them? When I go out to find the sound, they shut up and I can’t find them anyway. It really is annoying.
Full strength white vinegar in a garden sprayer will irritate them to jump out of the plants and into an area where you can net them and remove. Won’t hurt frog or plants. But nothing does the trick like bleach in a garden sprayer. I too used to be a frog lover but they keep invading my pool area forcing me to be a commando frog killer. I picked up a head band spotlight and fill up a garden sprayer with full strength bleach. Just spray directly on frog and they go crazy. They will jump in pool and then net them out and trash them. Bleach does them in.
Thanks Ken. But, as long as the vinegar isn’t painful, that would be fine… I REALLY wouldn’t want to promote something as painful as bleach…
I live in a apartment, this summer they decided not to open the pool. i live right next to the pool. thoes dam frog are so loud, i cant have any company without them asking me how do you sleep at night, the manager of the complex put clorine in the pool, but that didnt help so i am going to tell him about salt rock and vinegar, bleach anything to get rid of the frog. have to get up to early in the morning to be bother by this every night
My gardner recommended that I use sulphur powder, which i did last night all around our pond. I am not sure what this does, perhaps it just kills their food? Does anyone know because I forgot to ask him. The frogs are talking to one another across the pond and it echoes like crazy. They stop suddenly at 11pm at night – not sure why. Perhaps I fall asleep lol. They are a nuisance, but at least mine stay out in the wild and don’t bother me. We have lots of turtles, do they eat frogs, because if they do my turtles must be on a diet….
I am being over run by frogs this year. I live in Arizona and this is the worst they have ever been. I have tiny little ones, medium size ones, large ones and even bigger. It’s like the whole frog population is residing on my patio. I have a 9 yr. old Chow that keeps messing with them and getting that stuff they put off in his mouth and then that creates a whole nother problem. What can I do??? I am worried that my dog will get really sick or I am told he could die?
Why is everyone so concerned about causing a frog pain??? It is just a frog. It doesn’t have feelings or intelligence. Let’s stop imparting human-like qualities to a stupid frog.
Using bleach to kill frogs may seem inhumane but so is running over a frog with a lawnmower or car tire. When frogs invade your pool area – they have crossed the line. I too used to gently net them out and remove to the backyard – but they kept coming back – croaking so loud we couldn’t sleep. Now I can’t stand them.
Just last week I had a new one invade my pool area and start croaking. Within 2 days – there were a bunch of frogs croaking. The other night I loaded up a garden sprayer with bleach and used a spot light to target and kill them. I killed 8 tree frogs dead. Picked them up with a net and dumped them in the woods in backyard.
You can hear a pin drop in my pool area at night.
I too have tried everything in the book and killing them with bleach is 100% effective.
I live in SW Florida and live in a community with man made lakes. We have only lived in our house for 6 months and the frog problem at night is horrible. We too have them on the door frames and lights and garage door. I am totally freaked out by the frogs. They are a very light tan color and tend to blend in with the house. Coming home last night I was terrified to go into the house because I was alone and there was a frog on the front door. When I was able to finally get the nerve up to spray water at it, when it jumped off the door it jumped AT me!!!! We have also had 3 in the house and a couple of baby ones as well. Needless to say we need a way to get rid of the frogs. If we spray the entire outside of the house during the day with the bleach mixture will it keep them off the house? I am not interested in killing them I just want them to stay off our house. Any suggestions? I am desperate!
I’ve been having this problem i have yet to find a solution. The only thing that has worked so for is to gather them all up and/or throw them away or relocate. It took me about 30 min to fin and catch about 15 to 25 frogs that were swiming around in my pool, it tok time but it was worth it!
My neighbor has a freakin pond made special for frogs and its right by the fence. They are so loud my ears are actually ringing. We have a few in our yard but those make NO noise at all, its just the ones around the pond that are annoying the hell out of me. I dont kill animals so thats not an option and Im not about to stock up on snakes so I supose im out of luck. The thing is, even with so many frogs the masquitoes and every other bug you can think of (especially spiders) are horrable. I think i might have to add some salt and vinigar to the water to raise the PH lvl so that they leave cuz there not doing any good and they are driving me f-ing crazy.
Please help me out with all these horrible frogs. they are always on the outside wall and on the garage door and I can’t go in or out the house because of them, please what can I do to get rid of them. I’ll appreciate your help.
Thank you,
Annie
gday,
I also have a frog prob! The frogs look like this http://www.houseintohome.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/getting-rid-of-frogs.jpg does omeone know what the name of that frog is? Cause I need to get them away from my dog since they are poisenous.
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Hi Mikey and Steve. After watching National Geographic and seeing the problems Australia is having with poisonous frogs invading everywhere, I have no doubts your issues are WAY worse than ours, and need a solution a lot more drastic.
I’m keen to hear what you devise, and how it goes (though of course, we’ll need to keep it PG-Rated for this site
).
I really like what some people are doing in turning the dead frogs into compost…
Good luck!
Wow! I’m not alone. Here’s one for you. I went to catch one of the frogs croking outside on my above ground pool wall, and I missed him. Guess where he ran to. Do you know the support beams that hold up the pool? Well, when in the pool, stick you hand up to the pool rim where the support beam is. You will find a hole. Yep, that’s where the little buggers hang out in the day time before they come out to tourture us at night keeping me and my family from much needed sleep. After reading these posts, I am going to pour white vinegar down those support beams and after that I am going to add a cup of salt. Hopefully, this will throw the frogs into a comma. Then I intend to take pieces of cloth and plug those holes right up. I am going to buy blace rubber snakes and put them on the rim of my pool and under the footstep of the ladder. I think this should do it. For all of you with above ground pools, I just wanted you to know where those little buggers hide out – in the support beams.
Best of luck to you. I will let you know how all turns out.
It doesn’t solve my frog problem to read about everyone else’s, but I’m glad to know I’ve got company! We live next to a field that has a low, boggy area that stays wet when we have much rain…and in Louisiana we have plenty, usually!! I cannot keep clean windows because at night they are are all over leaving their droppings and urine. Opening a door to go out or come in is hazardous since they seem to feel they’re welcome. I’ve turned my shoe into a fly-swat, and and declared war on them by that method. Of course, then I have to clean up the messings. I will defintely fill up a garden sprayer with bleach and give that a try. Maybe I should spray them with some of our Louisiana Tabasco!
Is that the same thing as Louisiana Hot Sauce? Because that is some GREAT sauce! Couldn’t get enough of it while we were touring the States last year.
Good luck with the frogs (and good luck TO the frogs
)
Yes, “Tabasco” is the brand name made by the McIlhenny Company at Avery Island, LA, first produced in 1868. It is THE hot sauce of Louisiana hot sauces with “Louisiana Hot Sauce” manufactured in New Iberia, LA, since 1928 by Bruce Foods running a close second.
There’s some interesting Tabasco sauce history at http://www.tabasco.com/tabasco_history/mcilhenny.cfm#targ. Their plant and Avery Island is one of our tourist attractions…very interesting.
There’s also history of Louisiana Hot Sauce at http://www.brucefoods.com.
Thanks for your well wishes on the frogs! I’m not sure how they will fare; not too well, I’m hoping!
Thanks for those links. really interesting info, ESPECIALLY as the Green Tabasco sauce is my favourite on Pizza, and the red is my favourite sauce on seafood and almost everything else that “just lacks that zing”!
We have a pool that has turned into a party place for frogs, especially at night. I have never had a problem with frogs until we moved into our new house. We have tried to be nice, we have ignored them, fished them out of the pool and gently placed them on the other side of the fence and kept our backyard in the dark. But not anymore more, that croaking noise is driving me crazy!!! We have thrown them, flung them over the fence, bleached them, added a crazy amount of chlorine to the pool, killed the food supply, poured salt on them and they are still there. I think I am going to try snake repellant and lime juice. But I am not sure how the snake repellant would work with our dogs???? If this fails, we are going to drain the pool cover it and pray for the best.
Wow Nahdia! Please come back and let us know how it went, in case you find a solution… I’d love to know how the snake deterrent goes.
My Biologist friend Kenji tells me their skin is VERY permeable so just about any thing caustic, acidic, spicy or irritating will do the trick. Pick your poison. I too have a pool and hot tub (Tampa, Fl.) and all the above comments relate. I would rather kill them but I need to do something!!!!!!!!!!!!
I meant to say “rather NOT kill them” John
Ha ha… I’m glad you re-phrased that
Let me know what you decided to use.
My daughter liiving in Florida has asked me for help with her Frog problems. Research lead me here.
I have heard of a ‘humane’ way to kill them. Catch them, put them in a covered bucket in your spare (garage) refridgerator for a couple of days. They hibernate. Then put them in the freezer. They go to Frog heaven without even knowing it.
Seems like a lot of work. If I were there (I’m in NJ) I would catch a cooler full and bring them to the FL swamps. Feeds the Egrets and Gators.
That actually sounds similar to what the Australians are doing with their MASSIVE toad infestation.
But unfortunately, I don’t have a spare fridge in the garage
Put then in a bucket. Spray automotive starter fluid (ether) into the bucket to put them to sleep. Then you can dispose of them as you like. Either move them, freeze them, or whatever.
I told my daughter about the bleach thing… mopping her patio with bleach to see if that keeps them off. I’ll let you know how it worked.
This message is for ALL the heartless and disgusting HUMANS (or are they human} on this board that just want to kill or torture a living thing. That is what is wrong with our society today. Adults teaching children to kill a living creature just because it is a nuisance to them! God put these creatures on this earth for a reason. And to the idiot that says it is just a frog, does not mean it does not suffer and cannot feel PAIN!
It is sad to realize what we as a society are becoming!
People who think killing animals or creatures is ok, are the same People who could or do end of taking a human life without a thought. Unfortunately Their children learn from them.
LuvsGodsCreatures: pffft, ok I’ll just risk death due to lack of sleep and a potential dangerous profession (electrician) because i shouldn’t take out a few frogs!!!????? are you serious? you would rather me dead than a few frogs?
Frogs/Toads have probably always been around a lot longer than us humans ‘LuvsGodsCreatures’ .. If you live with them .. you would most certainly want to know something more about them. My question is .. If you were to co-exist (live) around them .. How would you do it? .. and still get a good nights sleep too?
.. You might be right though .. in the sense that the more land we call our own .. the more we lose to nature ..How do you make the difference between what the Frog owns .. and you? 
OK all you bleeding heart liberals win. I will just turn my house over to the frogs.
@LuvsGodsCreatures
You’re a vegetarian then, right? Cause you know that a cow, unlike the frog, was bred on a farm for YOU, has been raised from birth to adulthood, for YOU, and killed and chopped up, for YOU to eat. So if you’re not a vegan, you need to shut up w/ your hypocritical pretense.
Is anyone suggesting needlessly killing frogs for fun or sport? NO! Is anyone suggesting killing these frogs out of complete spite, or to just kill them for the sake of killing them? NO. This morning I walk into the shower, turn on the shower, and a damn frog jumps on me. IN THE SHOWER. Yeah, I know some of us are complete and utter wusses and shouldn’t freak out, but I did. And a lot of other people do. So you want me to weigh the consequences: It’s either me slipping and falling in a shower and breaking my neck because I was caught off guard by a damn frog, or I can spray the digusting creature with some bleach that will annoy him to the point that he WANTS to find a way out… and if he dies somewhere in that process, so be it. I think my choice clear in that situation.
Or what about the frog that literally killed itself crawlng up a toilet in my mom’s house? Is that our fault too? Man made the toilet, the frog would have never crawled though it if we didn’t put it there, I guess that’s cruel too then. Damn. F*** a frog. I’ll trade you: You give me insects for my amphibians… insects I can handle. Frogs I cannot. God’s creatues? We all are. Beneficial to mother earth? Of course they are. Cute and cuddly? HARDLY. Even better is having to wash down that waste they secrete through their skin… and it is WASTE… which let’s not forget on some tree frogs are POISONOUS. Now, is it probable that I’m going to come across a poisonous frog in my bathroom? No, most unlikely for all of North America. Is it IMPOSSIBLE? Of course not. So you feel free to come over and pick it up for me, I’ll stick to my brooms and bleach sprays.
On top of that… is the frog an animal in risk of going extinct? Has their been a mysterious major decline in population, like w/ bees? No? The its whatever man. GAME ON. Humans Vs Frogs.
Learn to love the frogs, frog love and peace.
I too have a frog problem plus 8 cats and 3 dogs. I found out from my vet today that some garden frogs secrete a poison from glands on their heads and if this gets into the mouth of another animal, it has the ability to kill that animal. He attended to a pet whose heart had stopped beating – the poison had affected the heart straight away. Usually this poison from the frog makes the animal foam at the mouth but not this little guy. It is still touch and go as to whether his was revived in time to have not suffered brain damage.
If anyone has a safe way of getting rid of frogs in houses, please let us know. I am not scared of them – just want silence at night and to protect my animals!