Frog in the House
 

Sunday morning, my blushing bride flips on the light switch and to our surprise we found a large frog in our bedroom. She assured me it wasn't her prince charming... I captured the frog and took him out to the yard. My guess is that he found is way into the house when a door was left open, but one of the people I golfed with said something about them coming up through the plumbing. Is that right???

Guess you cannot ask the frogs but probably just hopped his way in.

Lately anoles are coming to visit way to often when we open a door. Sad that it is a death sentence for them but hard to catch and take outside.

It's highly unlikely that the frog came in through the plumbing.

Was there a wet trail from the bathroom? Cause that will need Clorox.

The only time our Deans inside person said to worry is if toilets go completely dry, then yes you will get vermin, but she stated sink drains have trap, so they can’t come through, but they will go down drain to drink. We had the same person for 14 years

Make sure you close your toilet lid. We have had them show up twice in the toilet bowl and surprise us when we lifted the toilet lid!!

Hubby and I have caught two anoles so far since we are in our home, one just yesterday, and released them outside.

I shoo anoles out with a gentle leaf blower. The little guys can be even blown out from under couches. Depends on the size of the frog I can increase the power. The blower was bought for getting snakes out, works on leaves too.

It is "Likely" that a frog can come through the plumbing. We had one in our toilet once.

Guess you have better reflexes than me, too fast for me to catch.

A neighbor suggested dropping a towel on them but tried that and they laughed and ran away finally to starve. Sad.

Guess I will call you next time we see one.

Dunno about frogs coming in through (actually along) the plumbing but snakes surely can.One morning last week I spied one slithering along the hallway; when he saw me he turned and hightailed it under the door to the guest bathroom. Not very big...maybe 12"...but a feisty little bugger. Finally corraled him and put him in a box: turned out (after a couple of calls and texted picture) that he was a juvenile black racer. Apparently they can crawl along sink plumbing and will get in if it isn't sealed.

Frogs can swim.:oops:

We have a shop vac that works great on anoles,
empty outside and he's free again.

Most of those critter's cling on the inside door jam,
open door and in they hop.

I'm not saying that a frog cannot come in through the toilet, but the frog would have needed to enter the plumbing system from the manhole in the street, or from a vent pipe on the roof. Very unlikely. Some people assume that an animal or insect came in through the toilet because they see them in the toilet. But, all animals need water, and they will seek out the toilet to get water even if they came in from somewhere else.

Frog in toilet.
 

Google frog in toilet and you’ll see that it is actually a thing. We have had tree frogs in our toilet in our house up north where we live in a very wooded area. It is surmised that they come in through the roof venting. It is also easy to surmise that a frog in the toilet with the lid down did not get there the conventional way.

I agree, but I think a frog in the toilet with the lid down doesn't necessarily mean that the frog didn't squeeze in under the lid. My toilets have a one-half inch gap for anything to enter.

Yeah, certainly possible for a single frog to find that crack under the lid. Some of the pics from my google search showed multiple frogs in a single toilet. Kinda doubt the whole posse found there way in that way.🤫

I saw them. If I had that many frogs in my toilet, I think I would sell the house and move.

I don't know about frogs, but I have seen palmetto bugs come up throught the sink drains...

How much are frog legs going for nowadays?

I don’t live in the area yet so had to Google what an anole was. Now for the important question…how do I properly pronounce anole so I don’t sound stupid? :icon_wink:

Call them lizards.

Haha great solution! 🦎

or geckos

Apparently, no one knows. A lot of disagreement on this issue. You have the two syllable people and the three syllable faction.

Uh-knoll.

Ah-knoll.

Uh-knoll-ee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98pBFCsXX8

The Proper Pronunciation of “Anole” |

We had a teeny one once who could jump many feet. It was about the size of a quarter I think. My S.O. caught it and took it outside BUT had to be quick as this thing could move! NOW in our sun-room, which is an actual room made from a lanai has had a tiny anole in it. I think it came through a tiny crack that is with our slider door to the patio. I don't know if he/she moves back and forth from outside to inside or what but if he's been here for awhile don't know what's keeping him alive. That large frog would have undone me.

yes that is true

Just say lizard, most of us do! Truly, we'll all know what you mean.
Also, know that they are excellent to have around the 'outside' of your home. They do an incredible job at eating bugs and insects!
Just like black racer snakes, don't kill them when they are in your yard.

$15 per pound. But I wouldn't tell the buyer that they came from the toilet.

We had a tree frog hitch a ride with us up north. Found him climbing my closet door in the bedroom. Caught it and put it outside. If it survived I suspect it was very lonely since we don’t have this type in our northern state. We packed the car in garage with door shut so it must have been in the garage as we loaded up. Frogs are quick and sneaky. My guess is yours came in through an open door.

Frog in toilet is definitely a thing. Seen it happen with my own eyes.

Had a small frog in my car recently and we couldn’t get it out. We finally found him but he was well done from the heat.

Frog
 

Your friend is fooling with you. Though a snake coming out of the toilet can happen.

We call them lizards here in Florida.

You may want to check that the clean out access to the outside waste line for your house is intact. I did not realize that our house had a double clean out until not long after we had bought our home in The Villages. I was doing yard work & heard water running about 15-20 feet from main cleanout access (white PVC screw top next to house) while my husband was showering. Grass had grown over the spot where the flat cover for the second access had apparently been hit by a lawn mower at some point. There were plastic fragments from the broken cover on closer inspection. Moving the grass, I saw running water at bottom of 4-6" wide round open pipe. No odor or wet ground around opening. We replaced the cap (it sits more or less flush with the ground), & no more of the bugs we had been finding in bathrooms. We were lucky, as larger creatures could have come into house by same route. This situation may not be uncommon, as I reported same type cover damage recently near tee box at one of exec golf courses, with big hole someone could step in if not careful.

I use the blower to clean my house.

Carl from Bushwood

Good for you! They are the good guys

That definitely can and does happen. After the second time a frog in the toilet totally freaked out SWMBO, I fixed the issue with a piece of stainless steel screen and a hose clamp on the top of the vent stack on the roof. Then, for additional peace of mind, I did the same to every other vent stack. Problem solved.

Frogs can get into the house through the vent. While replacing my neighbor's vent, I found a tree frog inside it. I have also found two young squirrels in my toilet that came in through the plumbing vent on the roof.

When The Roof Guys did my roof, they put a new covers on the vents with a screen.

Frog came in through toilet
 

All my vents are covered with screening. To my surprise when I lifted the toilet seat, there was a huge frog on the side of the bowl. I slammed the lid and flushed the toilet. I then lifted the lid and he was still there. I slammed the lid again and grabbed the plunger. When I lifted the lid again he was gone. He apparently swam down the toilet drain. I think that’s how he got in too.