By Rogi
NRW,
Germany 
A toad....dead or alive?....
I was down the garden earlier on this evening and found this toad...it looked dead to me....I then went and got a long bamboo cane...expecting it to jump away....but it didn´t move...do toads play dead when in danger?...the danger being me....
20 Jun, 2014
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Agree with Badfish dead as a doornail
20 Jun, 2014
Hmm dinner....
20 Jun, 2014
Yuck!! Unless you are a seagull.
20 Jun, 2014
or a crow/magpie/jackdaw/jay etc
20 Jun, 2014
That frog has been dead for a while Catty...
20 Jun, 2014
Hallo all. Thanks for your answers. Thanks Badfish for telling me it was a frog. It looked very dead to me as well and this morning it was still in the same place...so very dead...so I got a spade and threw it into the woods. I just wondered what could have killed it...cats, we also have a big colony of crows/ jackdaws in the woods so maybe they got it...but still the mystery remains.
21 Jun, 2014
Old age?
21 Jun, 2014
Doesn't look like 'natural causes' although it is a big frog.
As a thought, Rogi, do you use blue slug pellets in the garden? If the frog had feasted on a killed slug then that could have finished him off.
21 Jun, 2014
But then, what do natural causes look like in a frog?
21 Jun, 2014
No idea Cammomile but Bulba obviously does :)
21 Jun, 2014
@Bulbaholic...no I don´t use blue slug pellets or any other chemicals...I make compost tea, nettle tea to feed the plants on....but maybe it came from a neighbours garden that uses slug pellets.
21 Jun, 2014
'Natural causes', an animal or amphibian would normally crawl away to die quietly. This one seems to be rather 'splatted' on the ground!
21 Jun, 2014
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A) it's a frog and B) I would say it's stone dead !!!! lol
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