Big Toad poop in Sulcata's water

[Maggie Cummings]

Please will a toad expert tell me how big a toad has to be to put out something this size? That's my shoe for size, it's an 8. Every morning there's either 2 piles in the shallow water, or if I make it deep, the 2 piles are next to the water on the ground. Bob won't go in his pool, he smells it and says no. I have rinsed it out and made it clean, but somehow these giant toads are leaving large toad poop and Bob won't use his pool. Any advice on how to get rid of them? Or what to do? I clean out the poop daily...

 

[Momof4]

Sure it's not scat? That is huge if it's from a toad!!

 

[ascott]

Please will a toad expert tell me how big a toad has to be to put out something this size? That's my shoe for size, it's an 8. Every morning there's either 2 piles in the shallow water, or if I make it deep, the 2 piles are next to the water on the ground. Bob won't go in his pool, he smells it and says no. I have rinsed it out and made it clean, but somehow these giant toads are leaving large toad poop and Bob won't use his pool. Any advice on how to get rid of them? Or what to do? I clean out the poop daily...

http://icwdm.org/inspection/BlackBrownDroppings.aspx

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I've seen a lot of big toads and their poo.
In my humble opinion, it's not from a toad.

 

[Yvonne G]

Sorry, Maggie - but that's not from a toad. That's opossum poop. I know from which I speak because every morning I clean that same stuff out of my box turtle waterers.

Bob is one smart cookie. All kinds of bad germs in 'possum poop.

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Sure it's not scat? That is huge if it's from a toad!!

Raccoons, poop a pile of round balls.....

I've seen a lot of big toads and their poo.
In my humble opinion, it's not from a toad.

You're humble opinion is so freaking valid! However, my poop looks just like the picture in Angela's link, by the quarter, but too small. My sis is 'usually' not wrong, neither are you, so I guess I set out a live trap tonight. What do I put in it for a possum? cat food? Peanut butter....What?
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[Maggie Cummings]

What in the hell am I gonna do with a live pissed off possum?????

 

[ShannonC]

I probably shouldn't tell you what we to to them....ugh hmmmm.....I mean WITH them!!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

For possum use Cat food. Something that reeks.
For a racoon use an apple.
Also, thanks for the kind words!
Don't forget I am currently raising an opossum until he is big enough to be released.
They are simply nasty.

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

What in the hell am I gonna do with a live pissed off possum?????

Sure this is raccoon, but the point is the same. Just feed it well for a couple weeks before you eat it.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Is that armadillo next to it?
It's referred to back home as 'possum on the half shell.

 

[leigti]

What in the hell am I gonna do with a live pissed off possum?????

Take it way way way way way far away.

 

[teresaf]

@Cowboy_Ken You remind me of my brother...at 16 LOL

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

@Cowboy_Ken You remind me of my brother...at 16 LOL

@teresaf

This is not the first time I've heard such a comment about myself. They say “Youth is wasted on the young " well I fully intend on getting my money's worth out of this life!!!

 

[wellington]

@teresaf
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This is not the first time I've heard such a comment about myself. They say “Youth is wasted on the young " well I fully intend on getting my money's worth out of this life!!!

Good for you. Hey, there is only one time around, make it count like it is your last, cuz it is.

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Good for you. Hey, there is only one time around, make it count like it is your last, cuz it is.

Ummm, or not.

 

[Big B]

Ha that is too funny. Ten bucks a pound. Could be a new money making hobby.

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Sorry, Maggie - but that's not from a toad. That's opossum poop. I know from which I speak because every morning I clean that same stuff out of my box turtle waterers.

Bob is one smart cookie. All kinds of bad germs in 'possum poop.

Have you ever actually seen your possum leave that deposit? I hear a huge toad, and my pictures match googled big toad poop. So even tho I am ALWAYS wrong when I don't listen to my sister, I'm putting my money on big toad poop. I have a live trap set in the bit of water in the pool, covered with a tarp so it's kinda hidden and used some stinky a** cat food. So, he's visited nightly for a couple of weeks. I'll catch something tonight....

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Take it way way way way way far away.

You don't actually think I would put a stinky thing like a possum in my car do ya??? I wouldn't even take Bob to the Vet in it. I don't even eat in it....

 

[Maggie Cummings]

I personally think my thread has more to do with aquaria, rather than tortoise. So I do believe my personal moderator made a mistake in moving my TOAD thread, not Sulcata! anyway