People in dry country areas are used to frogs making their home in the pool of water in the toilet. For many years we have enjoyed one, two or three frogs living in the yoga barn loo. This causes screams of surprise from yoga practitioners as they flush, and the frog is washed out from under the rim, down into his pool. Today I was cleaning up in preparation for a young Wwoofer coming to stay with us for a fortnight. He will be using that semi-outdoor bathroom, so it needed a good sweep and wipe. Ah hah, I thought, I will grab the camera and try to capture a shot of the frog as I flush the toilet. Sure enough, one energetic fellow was flushed down and here he is!
Litoria dentata enjoying the waterfall in the loo!
Don’t worry, the frogs go around the S bend to hide, then swim back up later when the coast is clear.
Our toilet frog is Litoria dentata, or Bleating Tree Frog. We lived closely with them at Arcadia, when they would hop inside the bathroom and hide in the top rail of the shower screen. In the morning whoever was having the first shower would be greeted with an ear-slitting shriek as the shower door rolled along the track, and the offended frog hopped off. Now we have them in around the house where it is damp and cool, and in the barn bathroom.
Bleating Tree Frog
A well-meaning yoga student once captured the frog and took him outside away to the other end of the barn. She was liberating him! However as the yoga class continued we watched this determined little being hopping in fits and starts back to the bathroom door, and I saw a red-bellied black snake closing in. Oh the toilet bowl was a far superior place to be! Yes the frog made it safely, someone had to pop out and open the door just to be sure.
Litoria dentata or Bleating Tree Frog under an umbrella by the dam
What a great post – thanks for making me smile!
yes, they make me smile too amy!
I love the photo of the Bleating tree frog. Looks so cool! 🙂
thanks scrapydo, i love them!
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wow, frogs in unsuspected places, we have no frogs this time of year, but i loved your images, MJ
glad to remind you of the warmth and the frogs 🙂
He’s an adorable little fellow, but I’m amazed, I never had a frog coming into the house, let alone the loo! Gorgeous post Christine 🙂
so glad you like it meredith … it was an idea percolating for a long time, so finally came to fruition today when the camera and the frog came together 😀
I am still laughing at this whole scenario and the poor confused Yoga student…I must admit in SoCal this is not a common problem…but it sure would be a funny problem to have…thanks for the smiles.
might make good image in a poem???
hey Christine sean here, Fiona’s partner looking at blogging instead of swamping facebook, for Sine Cera Rainforest Retreat; please might you let me know how you started this one and any simple tips or hints….? & the cost is ? happy frogs ( friend saw a green tree frog, in Cairns, ambush a small bat once and eat it too) sean
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hi Sean .. it is easy … just go to WordPress and start a blog … free … choose a simple theme like twentyeleven … watch the help videos either there or on Youtube and you are away … then find the blogs that have a similar interest, contact them by writing comments on their blogs, they might start to follow you … ask me any questions and i will always try to help out! love, Christine x
Aw that’s nice! Though I’m not sure I’d like to share a shower with one. I once went to sit in my chair swing in Tavira and it was inhabited by an enormous cricket. I never moved so fast in my life! I always look now before I go to sit down.
wow, i can understand why! crickets are so scratchy, hard to catch too … they have large ones in New Zealand called Wettas….. my d-i-l tells me about them 🙂 have you seen my other blog … http://imagesoftheheart.wordpress.com/ ??? i have lost the link to it from dadirridreaming … must try to put it back 🙂
Toooo cute ! I wish I had a little frog like this in my loo 🙂
my photo blog is over here http://imagesoftheheart.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/travel-theme-glass/ …. glad you liked my frog emma!
How cute, and I love the well meaning student 🙂
interesting how we each perceive things differently …her vision was of poor froggie trapped in the loo … his vision was more like ‘perfect safe place to live with occasional insects to eat and no snakes’ … mine was oh i love it that the frogs are here!
Mr Froggie looks so cute, but the thought of him lurking in my toilet, would keep me constipated for ever and a day. 😀 Just how big are these ‘adorable’ critters?
they fit snugly in the palm of your hand sylvia, the perfect size for a frog i think …. i did have to warn people in the yoga class that the frog was there, or i heard a loud scream when they flushed and were taken by surprise!
I don’t think one would fit snugly anywhere on my body. 😆
They’re cute! We usually have one or two tree frogs who like to live above our back door during the summer months. The first person to open the back door gets a frog on their head. lol!
what fun, i guess you have to warn the guests!
I am so glad he made it back before the snake got him…now i wish I too had an outdoor loo
do you have frogs around the house jo? i dont know anything about NZ frogs!
You get the odd one but I don’t see too many…maybe the dog and cats have chased them away. I have a friend who has lots of them though. I must make a date to go out there and take some photos. We did have 7 endemic frog species but sadly 3 are now gone. Now our Archey’s frog is listed as in the top 100 in danger of extinction. Here is a cool link that explains about NZ’s frogs and why ours are different.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/frogs/1
thanks for this … so sad that they are declining 😦
I love frogs. What an interesting post 🙂
It was a interesting post about frogs
He’s lovely – and has those wonderful ET digits.
On another subject, saw many yellow-tailed black cockatoos in the Blue Mountains this week 😄
i agree, just lovely 🙂 how wonderful to see the yellow-tailed black cockatoos, they are always so special …. are you enjoying a break from study?
Sweet! 🙂
It would take a little getting used to, finding a frog in my toilet, but then there’s something quite nice about the way a modern convenience keeps them safe and alive. Now if the snake ends up in the toilet, please don’t tell me! That’s a nightmare! 🙂
now you made me laugh … the snake would definitely not get in there! … but you are right, it takes a while to get used to sharing the convenience with an amphibian … especially for those who are not so familiar with them 😀
I love your toilet frog 🙂 We happily share our house at Taylors Arm with the frogs. We have big green ones, small golden and smaller green with silver GT stripes. Mostly they live outside, and we keep the toilet seats down (neighbour had terrible experience with a big green frog getting stuck and dying in the plumbing…eeeewwh), but currently as it’s so dry, we’ve been getting froggy visitors in the inside bath 🙂
love to think of your frogs elladee … what wonderful colours … all different to our Bleating Treefrogs! we keep the toilet seat down too … they know how to hop up and under the seat .. amazing isn’t it?
Christine, this is just a test to see if my id and pass will let me comment
And devils in the oven ?
rye bread today carl!