# Huge frog in my yard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154 "2017-06-17T02:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/21 "2017-06-17T23:34:31Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > It won’t let me see pictures without disabling my add blocker ☹ Do you have Firefox or Chrome? Chrome has an option to open a tab in “incognito window”. FF has this too but I forget what it’s called. It’s great for if you just want to see a site that one time and don’t want to disable AB. I just now used it myself. It’s on the right top side, where you can choose to open a new tab or window on Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/22 "2017-06-18T00:00:09Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Do you have Firefox or Chrome? Chrome has an option to open a tab in “incognito window”. FF has this too but I forget what it’s called. It’s great for if you just want to see a site that one time and don’t want to disable AB. I just now used it myself. > > It’s on the right top side, where you can choose to open a new tab or window on Chrome. Thanks for the suggestion. I have firefox and, while I couldn’t see “incognito window” specifically, there is a private window option so I tried that. No worky but worth the try and something I didn’t know about before! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/23 "2017-06-18T00:24:40Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I like frogs as friends but I also like eating them. Indeed, friends can be good eating. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/24 "2017-06-18T02:46:12Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I get a happy little twinge every time I see a photo of a bullfrog, brings back great childhood memories. [Crambone!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FyJyurljoM) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/25 "2017-06-18T14:46:22Z")
Did you try giving it a kiss? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/26 "2017-06-18T15:35:56Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Now that’s a cheap date. Well, he always has some mighty fine wine. StG ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/27 "2017-06-18T15:40:31Z")
Just discovered that I can view the photo on my phone, which is using uBlock Origin, not AdAware. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/28 "2017-06-18T17:35:03Z")
I cant see t he pic, all I get is a loading animation. If yuu’re in Florida or south Texas, it might be a cane toad. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/29 "2017-06-18T18:00:48Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I have never seen such big frogs as I’m seeing this year in our swamp/broken pool. There are a lot fewer of them but I swear they’re cat sized. Do you live in Florida? I think they may have the giant cane toads there. Another thing, they may not be able to get out of the pool, can you put something in the pool that might act as a ladder for them? If they can’t get out they will die. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/30 "2017-06-18T19:46:04Z")
(Burns and Schreiber reference.) But is it a giant Communist frog from Cuba? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/31 "2017-06-18T23:02:14Z")
Try this. [Imgur attempt.](http://imgur.com/a/gIN9X) StG ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/32 "2017-06-18T23:28:49Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Try this. [Imgur attempt.](http://imgur.com/a/gIN9X) > > StG Oh I love him! He looks all ready to sproing away 🙂 Years ago we were outside and heard this occasional big thumping sound, went around the back of the house and found the biggest frog I’ve ever seen, even larger than that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/33 "2017-06-19T14:43:49Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Bullfrogs can indeed get huge and even much bigger than the handsome guy in the photo. I am from Louisiana so I am probably the only one thinking - dinner…Frog legs are dammed good but only Louisiana people and the French seem to realize that. My father used to take me frog gigging in the bayou when I was little. You take a flashlight with red cellophane over the light, a small boat, a spear and net. The giant frogs can’t see red light so you can catch go straight up to them and spear or net them. > > Laissez les bons temps rouler. That is some good eating. Hey I’ve been frog-gigging! And eaten frog legs on the menu of a local restaurant more than once. Laissez les bon Kentuckians rouler. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/34 "2017-06-19T15:09:31Z")
One night years ago I was walking at night from my mother’s house to mine when I crossed paths with a large toad. I had my [F707](https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydscf707) with me, so I followed him around for a while watching him through the camera’s IR night vision as he went about snacking on bugs. My hope was to get a high shutter-speed flash shot freeze-framing him tongue-extended snatching up something, but while I saw several captures he was way too fast for me. Got a few good static shots, though. (Recycling [this](http://imgur.com/a/8ka8s) one from [a different post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=829043) today.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/35 "2017-06-19T15:27:39Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > \Laissez les bon Kentuckians rouler. 🙂 Tish! That’s French! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154/36 "2017-06-20T15:29:31Z")
The biggest toad I’ve ever seen was at my parents’ house back in New Mexico a few years back. Enormous. Salad-plate size. Just hugely fat. And he was so fat because he was a genius: every night, he was parked right under my parents’ bug zapper. Basically, he got a night-long stream of cooked food delivered right to him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-frog-in-my-yard/789154.md?page=1)