(10-27-2024, 11:53 AM)jaded Wrote: Thank you Byrd! Did not post for ego, posted cause every time a new critter comes along it's such a very cool thing to have to learn about them. Like everyone else I take Frogs for granted. They're out there, that's nice, I had no real clue about specifics, or local species. Kinda shameful.

When releasing the baby snappers there was one who kept turning around & toddling right back towards me. NOES!!!! I adore turtles but snappers get huge an I absolutely cannot justify walking past my cats with a whole chicken for the turtle. 
The Frog has been enjoying it's Airbnb stay. It's been rearranging the tank, using the rock/cave thing an it's color is back & looking healthy. One more "feed & poop" an she's ready for release.

The running joke now is "all bets are on the next workplace find is going to be a copperhead". Talk about grown men screaming like little girls! 25 guys an me yet nobody can manage to bend over & pick up a reptile or amphibian. They barely survived me herding a wolf spider back outside. Pretty sure I could leave their tough-guy gun toting butts in a county park an it'd be 50/50 they'd make it back to their vehicles. I just cannot fathom it.

The most hilarious thing was the guys were smack talking & calling one of our shippers "crazy".
I was at the time clock to punch out for lunch with a Frog in my pocket. Called the shipper over to show him as we discussed "maybe the guys need to google the definition of crazy?" Cause the Shipper isn't even close to that bar!!! The only concern he had was "That isn't the pocket you keep the ibuprofen in is it??!!" Yeah...no. Duh!!!

(10-26-2024, 02:33 PM)jaded Wrote: An I'm off to the races again.

Where I work we unreasonably end up with critters in the building. This weeks contestant was pointed out to me by yet another screaming man who was running around with a bucket insisting "I need you!!!" 

While I was trying to figure out what a dog turd was doing on the floor? Panicked guy was pointing an squealing FROG!!!! Last time I got yanking outside to snatch up 3 hatchling snapping turtles. 

(10-28-2024, 12:35 AM)CCoburn Wrote: It was very thoughtful of you to render some aid to a poor little froggy in need of some assistance.

On occasion when I'm out driving in rural areas on rainy days, I see tons of these little frogs hopping their way across the road at a snails' pace, and then it becomes time for another round of: "Little Froggy Obstacle Course!! I'm guessing most wouldn't pay them much mind if even noticing them at all, but I do make a valiant effort to minimize the casualties as much as possible. I don't even know if they're frogs. They could be toads, but they're too small to tell – just little hoppy things.

And one time on this mostly deserted back-country road I happened upon this HUGE snapping turtle right in the middle. It had to be like a hundred degrees that day. I figured I would just get out and see if I could lend them a hand(or at least a finger as it turned out). I noticed a small watery area almost in the direction they were heading, but not quite, so figured I would just put them where the water is (yeah right, easier said than done!!). This thing was like the size of a large watermelon and built like a tank, and every time I attempted to move it, it would turn around a bit like it was going to make me wish I'd stayed in the car and went about my way. It was very difficult to even move it at all without it muscling out and turning towards me, so I just decided to call it quits while I still had all my fingers. I made an effort, but it just seemed too risky, and my heartrate was definitely fluctuating at times.

(10-28-2024, 07:48 AM)Chiefsmom Wrote: Last year, when bringing in a few plants, my mom found a tree frog in one.  In December.  They actually feed it through the winter and released it the next spring.
Good on you for helping the little one out.

In our area, this past spring, it was orange kittens.  Stripped, not stripped, but all some type of orange.  In my barn.  Some went to the Human society and we kept 2.  One for a barn cat and one in the house.   Neighbor stole the barn cat, he seems to be living high on the hog as an indoor outdoor kitty.  Our indoor is a monster, who's favorite pastime is tackling the dog.

I'm not afraid of anything that Byrd listed, except spiders, unlike your baby turtles, they do not listen.  I have promised over and over not to kill them, if they would just stay outside.   Yet once a week I find a new one, in a corner, making itself at home.  Unfortunately, it does not end well for the spider.
I do not scream like a girl, (that I am) unless they are the big hairy wolf spiders.  Then it is more of a loud "make a sailor blush" cuss fest until it is dealt with.
I really hate this time of year, with the bug invasion.