toad had been euthanased ...............

I agree with you Trekkie don't kill 'em peicefully

Cheers Luke

One turned up in Karatha last week....and they hope there is no more.....in some nursery gear I hear.

Trekkie

Toads pale into insignificance compared to what white man(also imported) does to the country.



Still, when they(the toads) were on the march to the NT the government was warned repeatedly but nothing was done about it. Now they are on their way to WA. They are good colonisers. Maybe we could use them as a resource for something.

Our forefathers had such wonderful ideas!!!!....lol


Cheers

When we were up at Jabiru we used to spray the toad with dettol,, it worked really well. A few hops and they were buggered.

Their favourite hiddy hole was under the dog kennel, didn't have to search for them.

Regards
Toad Killer BooBoo

Hi All

The Government should put a Bounty on them, and only Pensioners
and Grey Nomads are Licensed to Kill and Collect,
and you are not allowed to Breed them to make a Dollar lol lol lol,

No seriously we have to do something urgently other wise our
Native Wildlife will be eradicated, some say the Wildlife are
adapting to the Toxins the Cane Toads have, but a lot die.

Cheers
Daza

My assumtion would be that Trevor is King Toad.. we gotta put him down!!!!!! Look out Trev if we see em all carrying golf clubs at St George!!
But seriously,I can't stand the things, ugly creatures, walk out to the wheelie bin at night time without turning the light on, something hops on your foot, they are just creepy bloody things!!
We use to heave heaps of green tree frogs in our back yard, haven't seen any at all for at least 3 years now.

Have seen the big ones run over by a car, and 20min later suck their innards back in and hop away.

Animal right to lifers have no idea .......

As a history lesson:

The cane toad, Bufo marinus, was introduced to Australia by the sugar cane industry to control two pests of sugar cane, the grey backed cane beetle and the frenchie beetle. One hundred and one toads arrived at Edmonton in North Queensland in June 1935. Unseasonal breeding occurred almost immediately, and within 6 months over 60,000 young toads had been released.

B. marinus adapted well to the Australian environment and spread throughout coastal Queensland. The rate of spread was accelerated by toads deliberately moved ahead of the advancing front line. In the late 1930s toads were introduced with government sanction into about 11 sugar growing locations in northern and central coastal Queensland. After this date introductions were non-official. Foci in the gulf country, notably at Normanton and Burketown, and in northern New South Wales were started by toads being deliberately released by people. By the early 1980s the northern front line had crossed west into Northern Territory.

The cane toad is native to South America but has been introduced to many countries in the vain attempt to control some insect pests. It was introduced to Australia in 1935 from Hawaii and released into canefields of far north Queensland to try to (unsuccessfully) control greyback cane beetles, a major pest of sugar cane.



Most interestingly, the introduction of a predator that couldnt climb the sugar cane to get its prey was Govt sanctioned ..... damn shame that nobody noticed back then ... that hawaiin sugar cane was grown horizontal and matted ... not vertical ... go figure huh.