# My wife poisoned my tadpoles :( **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337 "2014-08-12T00:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/1 "2014-08-12T00:58:05Z")
At the risk of becoming the next JC… Anyway I had a small bucket outside with a water plant in it, tree frogs laid eggs in it and there was a bunch of little tadpoles. I figured my son would like watching them. My wife told me once WTF are you doing bringing them inside the house you have brought a blight on our house, so I put them back outside. Well overnight I moved them into a bigger container, and forgot it when I fell asleep. My wife woke me up saying WTF are those things doing in the house. They were ALL dead, and now even the aquatic plants I had in there are dead. She admits she poisoned them, she said it was because I brought them indide the house twice she had to put a stop to the insanity. ☹ > **[Emerald-eyed tree frog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald-eyed_tree_frog)** > > Hypsiboas crepitans (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) > The emerald-eyed tree frog (Boana crepitans) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is largely restricted to the Atlantic Forest region of Brazil. Some populations previously regarded as Boana crepitans have been separated into the species Boana xerophylla and Boana platanera. > Species description based on Ibanez et al. (1999) and Duellman (2001). A large treefrog with long, slender arms and legs (males to 59 mm, females to 68 mm). Males have a... I even identified what tree frog they came from by looking online. Man, she is just angry as hell saying I brought it on myself bringing “crapow” in the house twice brining a blight on us. I can’t believe she did that, man I would never ever do that to some project she had. Man… ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/2 "2014-08-12T01:06:54Z")
Divorce the bitch! But before you do, do you mind rating her on a scale of 1 - 10? ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/3 "2014-08-12T01:11:06Z")
I’m sorry about the tadpoles, **grude** , and your aquatic plants. That’s sad. I’m also getting concerned about your wife. A blight upon your house for bringing tadpoles inside? WTF? I don’t mean to be insulting, but this is just not normal thinking. You’ve reported in other posts that she’s got some strange ideas. Is this superstitious shit getting worse? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/4 "2014-08-12T01:13:35Z")
What is crapow? Googling it wasn’t helpful. Why does your wife have such bizarre opinions? She sounds deluded and cruel. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/5 "2014-08-12T01:22:14Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > What is crapow? Googling it wasn’t helpful. > > Why does your wife have such bizarre opinions? She sounds deluded and cruel. This is the actual spelling I think [Crapaud - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crapaud) We are talking about a non USA superstition so I have no idea how normal or not it is really, it doesn’t come up[ much in casual conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/6 "2014-08-12T01:23:37Z")
Wow! That’s just messed up. I’m really sorry about your tadpoles and for your son not getting to see them grow. So messed up. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/7 "2014-08-12T01:24:35Z")
Are you telling me she left a bucket of poisoned water around where your son could get to it? That’s fucked up, man. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/8 "2014-08-12T01:28:40Z")
don’t eat mushrooms if she serves them ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/9 "2014-08-12T01:28:45Z")
Why are you married to this woman? Seriously, what does she bring to your life? Or your son’s life? She sounds insane. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/10 "2014-08-12T01:29:43Z")
[http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/TTSE\_among\_world\_s\_top\_five-136514738.html](http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/TTSE_among_world_s_top_five-136514738.html) I guess frogs really are bad news culturally > [@](#): > > In the political world, crapaud had its own definition. During a general election Dr Eric Wiliams had advised voters. > > “If I put a crapaud in your constituency I expect you to vote for him. Not long ago there was a dispute between nurses and the administration of the Health Ministry. In order to intimidate the person representing the ministry in the wage negotiations, a crapaud was put in a bag and dropped on the desk of the negotiator.” But still ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/11 "2014-08-12T01:31:44Z")
> [@grude](#): > > At the risk of becoming the next JC… > > Anyway I had a small bucket outside with a water plant in it, tree frogs laid eggs in it and there was a bunch of little tadpoles. I figured my son would like watching them. > > My wife told me once WTF are you doing bringing them inside the house you have brought a blight on our house, so I put them back outside. > > Well overnight I moved them into a bigger container, and forgot it when I fell asleep. > My wife woke me up saying WTF are those things doing in the house. > > They were ALL dead, and now even the aquatic plants I had in there are dead. > > She admits she poisoned them, she said it was because I brought them indide the house twice she had to put a stop to the insanity. > > ☹ > [Emerald-eyed tree frog - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald-eyed_tree_frog) > > I even identified what tree frog they came from by looking online. > > Man, she is just angry as hell saying I brought it on myself bringing “crapow” in the house twice brining a blight on us. > > I can’t believe she did that, man I would never ever do that to some project she had. Man… Did you beat her severly? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/12 "2014-08-12T01:34:44Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Wow! That’s just messed up. I’m really sorry about your tadpoles and for your son not getting to see them grow. So messed up. No she was holding it when she woke me up and had me take it outside, and I have no clue what she poisoned it with probably some soap or hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol something household. I doubt she put cyanide or something just because where would she get it. I am just kind of like man… I did not expect that.☹ ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/13 "2014-08-12T01:36:05Z")
> [@grude](#): > > [http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/TTSE\_among\_world\_s\_top\_five-136514738.html](http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/TTSE_among_world_s_top_five-136514738.html) > > I guess frogs really are bad news culturally > > But still ☹ Toads are not frogs. And you don’t live in Tobago. So add ignorant to the list. Anf you are married to her why, again? ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/14 "2014-08-12T01:44:53Z")
> [@grude](#): > > No she was holding it when she woke me up and had me take it outside, and I have no clue what she poisoned it with probably some soap or hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol something household. I doubt she put cyanide or something just because where would she get it. > > I am just kind of like man… I did not expect that.☹ This is definitely fucked up behavior. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/15 "2014-08-12T01:47:35Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Toads are not frogs. > And you don’t live in Tobago. > So add ignorant to the list. Anf you are married to her why, again? Pronounced “crap-o” the word is used for both frogs and toads by locals, they both have the same name in Trinidad too. I dunno man she can’t figure out why I am so upset, this is the first time she has done something so wacky in the name of superstition. Like a frog in the house is EXTREME bad luck, EXTREME. But I wish she had just explained to me in the decade we’ve been married just how culturally horrible they are considered, she kinda blind sided me there. Anyway it seems I blindly walked into a cultural faux pas without knowing, but I would have appreciated a warning from her. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/16 "2014-08-12T01:47:39Z")
> [@grude](#): > > No she was holding it when she woke me up and had me take it outside, and I have no clue what she poisoned it with probably some soap or hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol something household. I doubt she put cyanide or something just because where would she get it. > > I am just kind of like man… I did not expect that.☹ That’s nuts. Totally screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/17 "2014-08-12T01:56:56Z")
Your wife killed something that she knew was important to you. That is not okay at all. ☹ Any chance of getting her (or both of you) to a therapist to talk this over? I’ve gathered you’d prefer to chalk this one up to “cultural differences”, but seriously. I have never heard of anything like this before. Something may be up with your wife, and it would be better for you two to face it now than later. Good luck, and keep us posted. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/18 "2014-08-12T02:17:43Z")
The tadpoles were dead this morning when I took it outside, but it was only when I got home tonight I noticed the plants were all dead or wilted too. So I was convinced this wasn’t accident. I mean I was aww but I thought maybe they just died or something before. I just went next door and asked my wife’s aunt without explaining the situation that I had brought tadpoles inside and my wife was vex, and her eyes opened wide and she asked me if I wanted to bring death on my family. Saying one crapo in a house is a bad omen, and I am bringing in a lot of them am I crazy. She actually acted like it was serious and I was crazy or malicious, when I explained it to her she said she would have dumped them out the minute she saw them because she wouldn’t want it near her house. I just wish my wife had told me how serious she took this, I guess I laughed her off the first time. And if anyone is curious she is way more paranoid about my son’s health than me, she was worried I was going to poison him with sodium when he was young and all of a sudden took a liking to my euro salami I got from a deli and I let him eat all he wanted. I dunno man I feel I guess shocked at how out of the loop I am. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/19 "2014-08-12T02:26:08Z")
Your wife’s aunt lives next door and you went to her for marital advice. And in a decade of marriage you never got hint of the cray-cray. You are shocked. Shocked! You don’t know your wife at all, do you? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337/20 "2014-08-12T02:30:51Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Your wife’s aunt lives next door and you went to her for marital advice. > And in a decade of marriage you never got hint of the cray-cray. You are shocked. Shocked! > > You don’t know your wife at all, do you? Not marital advice, I went to her to ask how she would react to someone bringing tadpoles into the house. She said she would have killed them before saying a word because she wouldn’t even want them outside near the house… I guess the specific scenario of frogs or tadpoles in the house never came up in a decade of marriage 😃 I mean sure I was pissed but there has never been a hint of cray cray before this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-poisoned-my-tadpoles/695337.md?page=2)