Do toads make noises?

[Mike_Lowery]

My koi pond in my front yard is being frequented by what I think are toads in the past few nights. However, these creatures are making a loud, annoying sound. I don't think I've ever heard toads make noises before (sounds like an electric motor humming at about 85 dB), but their backs are too bumpy to be frogs. Anyone know if toads make noises?

[craigwatanabe]

My koi pond in my front yard is being frequented by what I think are toads in the past few nights. However, these creatures are making a loud, annoying sound. I don't think I've ever heard toads make noises before (sounds like an electric motor humming at about 85 dB), but their backs are too bumpy to be frogs. Anyone know if toads make noises?

Das a toad you just described.

[MonkeyMan]

My koi pond in my front yard is being frequented by what I think are toads in the past few nights. However, these creatures are making a loud, annoying sound. I don't think I've ever heard toads make noises before (sounds like an electric motor humming at about 85 dB), but their backs are too bumpy to be frogs. Anyone know if toads make noises?

Yup. That be a toad. And it be lookin' for some LOVE! Check your pond and get rid of all the strings of gelatinous toad eggs or your koi will eat them and die.

We spent countless hours cleaning toad eggs from our fishpond while growing up. Sometimes our koi died en masse, after a toad eggfest.

Toads were reviled in our household. My dad stopped just short of paying us for each toad we eliminated from the koi pond. We hated them with a vengeance. He didn't have to pay us. We did it anyway.

[sophielynette]

Our pool got taken over by tadpools one spring. It was our fault for leaving water in it, but I can't believe -how many- there were! My mom is a softie so she refused to let us get rid of them -- or even use the pool all summer -- but it was kind of neat watching them grow legs and such. But man, what a racket!

[Glen Miyashiro]

Yup. That be a toad. And it be lookin' for some LOVE! Check your pond and get rid of all the strings of gelatinous toad eggs or your koi will eat them and die.

We spent countless hours cleaning toad eggs from our fishpond while growing up. Sometimes our koi died en masse, after a toad eggfest.So the eggs are poisonous to the koi, then? I didn't know that.

[Pomai]

Not only is the Bufo Toad (http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/18/features/story7.html) noisy when mating and the eggs dangerous to Koi (and any other fish?), but they also pose a serious threat to household pets; namely dogs (http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/18/features/story7.html).

The dangerous part of the toad is a milky white toxin excreted from parotid glands behind their eyes. Contrary to what some believe, toads do not bite and do not spit or squirt the poison. When they feel threatened, toads squeeze this poison onto the surface of their skin. Dogs and cats are poisoned when they bite or lick the toad, or when the poison gets into their eyes.

We experienced this first-hand with one of our toy-sized dogs. One night while we were outside, we heard her barking excessively loud and agressive. Sure enough, she had just been harrassing and attempted to bite a medium-size toad. Within seconds her mouth began foaming profusely and her body began shaking slightly. I picked her up, ran her inside to the shower, turned her face-down, okole-up and thoroughly rinsed her mouth with cold water using a hand-held shower sprayer, making sure the water drained down and out of her mouth to prevent anymore ingestion of toxin. Had I not been there at the time to immediately rinse her mouth, we surely would have found our dog dead in the yard. I tell you, it was a scary moment. I didn't think she was going to make it.

This particular dog of ours for some reason HATES toads and always goes after them (even after that experience), so we constantly keep an eye out when she's in the yard. ANY Bufo we spot jumping in our yard is immediately "expelled".

Several years ago, a cousin of ours found his Pug dead in the yard, which we suspect was caused by an encounter with a Bufo.

[Mike_Lowery]

Yup. That be a toad. And it be lookin' for some LOVE! Check your pond and get rid of all the strings of gelatinous toad eggs or your koi will eat them and die.

We spent countless hours cleaning toad eggs from our fishpond while growing up. Sometimes our koi died en masse, after a toad eggfest.

Toads were reviled in our household. My dad stopped just short of paying us for each toad we eliminated from the koi pond. We hated them with a vengeance. He didn't have to pay us. We did it anyway.

Yup, I went out there at 3 AM...3 couples were humpin'! I was lmao-ing when they kept going at it despite getting hit with a broom.

[MixedPlateBroker]

They make a satisfying "thunk" when you hoist them 30ft onto a neighbor's corrugated tin roof with a trusty shovel.:p

Just one of the things I learned as a youth during the summers I spent at my grandparents' house in the country.