A Random Act of Kindness
So it is first thing in the morning in Birmingham, UK, after a heavy night of rain. I am making coffee for myself and nutella sandwiches for my boys ...I look out the window to see a neighbours cat acting very strangely on the grass! When I look closer I realise that she is toying with a garden frog which has become very scarce in these parts. Standing watching in my slippers and pj's I debated the circle of life verses the humanity of preserving all life and intervening on the frogs behalf. I decided on the latter and now have a frog sat in a tupperware container, a little shook up but by all intense purposes OK! I will release him once the cat, who was considerably offended by the way, has given up and gone home!
So I pose the question to you: What would you do save the frog or let nature take its course? I am curious because people say that the culture of today is to be self focused and not interested in helping his fellow man or in this case his fellow frog :-)
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I try to avoid unnecessarily ending a life so if I see it I will step over an ant instead of stepping on it. It depends on the situation. If my cat wants to catch and eat a bird I will let it. I eat birds too. But if the cat just wants to play with and torture a bird for fun I will stop it. Cats think I'm very weird. :)
Cheers Gary, lol Mr Cat Pest then!! You would be useful here as we seem to have inherited several with the garden! Seems to be the general consensus is frog wins out!
Elinor,
A simple case of "Free the Birmingham 1"....
The cat was having a bit of fun, it didn't need to eat the frog to survive, his next bowl of Whiskas would have sorted him out but the frog would have been petrified, I guess, having this huge creature toying with him.
And in any case, the frog was probably doing good things in your garden like eating slugs so he was well worth saving on two fronts.
Well done
Mark
Thanks Mark, I agree it was more of a playful thing! I probably would have been presented with said frog dead as a gift!!
I would definitely help the frog, just as you did. No doubt the cat gets fed by said neighbour, so it is not as though the great food chain of life needs to be maintained right?! Great work I say!!! :)
We can't save the world Elinor dear. But we can do what we can. There's always a purpose and trust whatever tells you the right thing to do. God's blessing for you and yours......
Shirley
We would have saved the frog. BUT -
here in Queensland Australia, if it had been a Cane Toad instead, we would have then had to save the cat, because cane toads are highly poisonous due to poisonous glands on the back of their heads. If a cat or dog plays with or bites them, the toad's poison will kill it.
That goes for other animals too, we are inclined to take care (one way or the other) of animals on the road that have been injured from horrible people who crash into them and then leave them to die. I become Very emotional when we see such things, and I always tell Geoff - 'there's another one that my mum will look after for us' - she passed away some time ago.
I would save the frog and have done this numerous times for other animals.
I have a friend who knows LOTS about wildlife and how to look after poorly ones. If I find an animal I don't know what to with I ask him. Usually he takes the animal in and does what's needed, whether curing and releasing or putting out of its misery.
I see more of this from people than I do the opposite I'm happy to say. :)
Yes Kathy, we are inclined to take care (one way or the other) of animals on the road that have been injured from horrible people who crash into them and then leave them to die. I become Very emotional when we see such things, and I always tell Geoff - 'there's another one that my mum will look after for us' - she passed away some time ago.
Re: the frog - this is what we answered Elinor -
We would have saved the frog. BUT -
here in Queensland Australia, if it had been a Cane Toad instead, we would have then had to save the cat, because cane toads are highly poisonous due to poisonous glands on the back of their heads. If a cat or dog plays with or bites them, the toad's poison will kill it.
I understand, that would be a dilemma for me!
I would probably then try and shut the cat indoors, catch the toad and take it far away! I guess it's not always going to be possible to do this though.
Unfortunately if you see 1 Cane Toad about, there are likely to be hundreds of them, and their poison isn't very human friendly either, though humans tend to stay away from them or spray them with Detol which kills them. Bearing in mind, I hate killing anything, but toads were introduced into Queensland in June 1935 from Hawaii in order to eradicate the Grey-backed Cane Beetle that was eating our sugarcane crops. But because the cane toad, which can grow up to 1.3 kg (2.86 lbs), doesn't have any natural predators and so it has become a real pest.
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Free the frogs...let's start a campaign lol. I actually saw a frog just outside my house for a first time in awhile. I can hear them all the time, but I find that these days it is much more rare to actually see them.
I am sure you have made yourself a new, long term frog friend here!
PS. Nutella sandwiches sound so good, I think I am going to need to try one of those!
Firstly omg, Nutella sandwiches are amazing! My 3 kids would live on them, chocolate and hazelnut spread!! Most highly recommended