Should you be in a cane toad invested area, please help to eradicate some, go to canetoadterminators.weebly.com for some information. All you need is a good torch, tongs and a plastic bag . Once the toads are in the plastic bag tie a knot and let them sufficate.
Should you be in a cane toad invested area, please help to eradicate some, go to canetoadterminators.weebly.com for some information. All you need is a good torch, tongs and a plastic bag . Once the toads are in the plastic bag tie a knot and let them sufficate.
From what I have read in the newspaper a meat producer in Australia is on the verge of signing a deal to export Cane Toads to China.
China doesn't have enough toads to satisfy the desires of it's population, says John Burey, of United Game Processors in Queensland, who heads for Beijing next month to meet officials in the hope of signing a toad pact.
He said the Chinese used Toad Poison as an Expectorant, heart stimulant and Diuretic.
It was also used as a remedy for toothache and sinusitis and people in the North of the country liked to eat Toad legs, while in the south they ate the whole frog.
Sounds good to me, Australian business could quite possibly make a nice profit out of a pest.
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We have researched the possibility exporting cane toads to China, and believe it will never happen. A similar species to cane toads is being farmed in china. Therefore it will be very hard to compete. It is not recommended for cane toads to be eaten. It will kill you. Legs might be OK. You have to be desperate.
-- Edited by tell on Sunday 25th of April 2010 06:07:47 PM
I live in a cane toad area and have been eradicating them for years, the only problem I find you can get a good drive with them but boy are they a bugger to putt..
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Unfortunately it is common for golf clubs to be used to kill cane toads. Not a good idea. Some native animal might eat the dead toad and will die. The reason for collecting the toads is to make sure we protect the native animals. The cane toads have devastated some areas to such a state that no frogs are present and many other animals have died. However frogs will return if we remove the cane toads.
They spit in Oz too. Yuk! The crows eat cane toad livers, but there are more livers than crows I think. The toad skins make beautiful leather. An enterprise in Cooktown, and probably Cairns are selling purses and small bags made of the leather. Perhaps if SA starlings and Qld toads could get it together they could kill each other out. Just an idea for a solution to a dreadful problem. The toad catchers over near Kununurra do very well every time they go walking. They regularly patrol the border area up there, and hundreds of people get involved every time. Good luck with the eradication. I wish you all the luck in the world, but I don't like your chances of ever totally eradicating the pest.
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I agree we will have hard time to eradicate the toads, but we can keep the numbers down, and give our natives a better chance. Please report any toats busted.
Next time you sit in your Motorhome or Caravan, not much to do, not much on the TV, why not take your torch, have a walk around and see if you can find any cane toads. The native wildlife will appreciate it greatly. They might not be able to thank you, but it will make a difference to there survival. All you need is a torch a plastic bag and perhaps some barbecue tongs to pick them up with. Once the toads are in the bag tie a knot and let them suffocate.
wow what a great idea i wish they would bring something in here like theydo in kunnanurra ,if we got hundreds of people together inour area, gees i go out and find heaps inour yard night and day ? yesterday two baby ones popped out in front of me ? i hate them, yes there skin on the top near the head has poison in it, i read when i was about fifteen in a post article that this man used to collect them for skins, he rolled a ciggie and smoked it, next thing he was in hospital for three days tripping off his dial ?? poor bugger, they contain a huge amount of hallucinagenic poison.
its a wonder some one hasnt made up the insane idea of making some form of drug with it ? that will be next one day im guessing.
hey jhr well its so true, people are idiots they get around making ecstacy dont they and its ridiculous the stuff that its made from? but yep i hope nobody does do something crazy like that
wow what a great idea i wish they would bring something in here like theydo in kunnanurra ,if we got hundreds of people together inour area, gees i go out and find heaps inour yard night and day ? yesterday two baby ones popped out in front of me ? i hate them, yes there skin on the top near the head has poison in it, i read when i was about fifteen in a post article that this man used to collect them for skins, he rolled a ciggie and smoked it, next thing he was in hospital for three days tripping off his dial ?? poor bugger, they contain a huge amount of hallucinagenic poison.
its a wonder some one hasnt made up the insane idea of making some form of drug with it ? that will be next one day im guessing.
its been done glassies - desperate people have been known to lick the lumps on the backs of cane toads to get a desparately needed "high"....
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If there is such a thing as a tourist season.... why cant we shoot them?
During the time I was parked up in Cairns I found 3 under my van - in 2.5 years, only 3 cane toads. I was almost disappointed, but very relieved to see they aren't as prolific as the were in Townsville in 1972. Ugly stinkin' cane toads.
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Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
Back in 2004 I lived in Brisbane for just on 12 months. The best way to get rid of them is get two buckets. Water in one and 2 bricks in the other. grab the cane toad with a plastic bag and drop it in the water bucket then put the brick bucket inside the water bucket to push the cane toad down to drown it. In the morning bag the dead toads up and put them out in the wheelie bin. I used to get at least 4 every night in my small back yard. Horrible ugly things.
