Baby Frog???

Put the kiddo to bed...release the paub!!!! Frogs have REALLY sensitive skin...at 2 years old...she probably wont even remember. BUT, if she does...maybe make up a very whimsicle story about how a princess kissed him and they lived happily ever after!!!!
That 'paub' will be just fine!!!

M:)

Definately send Paub back to his Mommy. I'm sure your daughter would understand that Paub's Mommy missed him so much that she came looking for him in the middle of the night and took him home to his lilypad so he could be with her and all his brothers and sisters. Go and buy your daughter a stuffed frog (beenie baby maybe?). She will be just as happy and may learn that the best place for a baby is with Mommy - which really is true anyway.

I vote for letting it go, too. It may die in captivity and that will be even more sad.

We just found a tiny baby turtle in our yard yesterday. My daughter (3.5) wanted to keep him but I told her we really couldn't - he still needed his mommy and daddy and would be happiest where he could swim and have lots of food and there would be lots of other turtles for him to play with. We put him in a plastic cup with a little bit of water so she could watch him for a while, then drove to the pond that is near the town library. I told DD that this would be the perfect place for the turtle and she was fine with that. She tipped the cup over near the water's edge and we let the turtle slide out onto the shore. She was fine, she said, "Bye-bye baby turtle, I'll miss you!" and that was it. I figured it was one of those necessary "teaching moments" that it's better to let these animals live in the wild than try to keep them captive as pets and I didn't want to set a precedent by keeping every turtle, frog, baby rabbit, etc that comes along. So I guess my advice would be to set Paub free - he misses his family and his home.

"Paub" got lonely and wanted his mommy so you let him go home. Better than dead "Paub" in a couple of days. Sorry hun. He needs to go back outside.

I'm gonna join the "let it go" committee. For more than one reason. We see little froggies in our yard all the time, we enjoy them- look at them, maybe pet them or hold them for a couple seconds, and then that is it... (we also have cute little lizards, garden snakes, and bunnies- BABY, ADORABLE bunnies currently no bigger than hamsters living in our back yard!). It is really important because it teaches the kids an extremely valuable lesson: Wild animals should remain as such. We should respect nature.

Growing up I found turtles, fawns and baby chipmunks in the woods near my mother's house. The fawn didn't move. I was told that a mother might reject it if they smelled human scent on them. Here I was, 9 or so, standing right next to a cuter-than-words fawn., and didn't touch it. It was hard, but a no brainer none the less... you don't mess with nature. I HAVE, however "helped" injured wild animals by taking them to a rescue center.

The baby bunnies I was referring to were just discovered yesterday in our yard this year. We were expecting them because there were bunnies last spring. Even my almost 3 year old knew to stay away- to admire from afar the little cuties. The frogs we have are really great, too. We like them a lot. Last year I saved four of them from a well in which they were stuck. They must have been trying to get out for a long time because as soon as I got them out they didn't hop away at all.

I'd say admire the little fella. Enjoy him for a day, then put him right back where you found him. Now, if you are insistent on him becoming a member of the family, go to the library and get some books on taking car of frogs, and/or go to your local aquarium/pet store....HOWEVER, this one incident, if you treat it as a "we are letting him go" thing, will REALLY help in the future when a cute turtle or something else shows up. They ask "can we have it?" You could say "remember, they live here, this is their home"- problem solved:)

Let the baby frog go home to it's Mom :-)

Wild critters generally do not do well in captivity. Plus frogs can carry salmonella (check out the CDC website for more info).... So probably not the best pet for littles.

It's cool of you to entertain the idea though!

Yes, releasing is the best. However, we we in a similar situation about 2 years ago. It is actually a toad. We put it in a 10 gallon tank with a coconut skin bedding well soaked and a dish of water. We feed it crickets every few days. Take it out of the tank and let it hop around the room every once in awhile. I figured this toad would last a couple of weeks at best. Well 2 (or more) years later we still have "Toady".

I would let it go, but if you are intent on keeping him than go buy some crickets from the pet store.

I am with setting him free too.... In my opinion, it is cruel to take an animal out of the wild and put them in an enclosed setting unless they wouldn't survive otherwise. Plus... with frogs it's REALLY hard to tell age... size is no indication, so this frog could be old and ready to kick the bucket anyway. Either way, it has been roaming free for it's entire life, and now is limited to a bucket... doesn't really seem fair, does it? At least if it's bred in captivity, it never knew any better. Frogs can also carry diseases, I had a cousin get Sparagonosis (Sp?) from handling unkown frogs. She had to be on antibiotics for a few weeks to get rid of it. They are also known to carry Salmonela (Sp? lol)... not something you want your 2 year old getting, let alone the rest of the family!

She's 2, so while she may be upset for a while she will get over it fairly quickly. You might get her a stuffed 'Puab' to carry around if she wants... Or if she really wants a frog, take her to the pet store and buy one. They really aren't that expensive.

If you keep him he will die and you will all be very unhappy. Right now, HE'S very unhappy. He isn't in his home, he's not being fed and he probably doesn't like tap water. Please show your daughter how to treat living things properly and let him go.

I have aquatic frogs- a bit different, but there is special food for them. Ask at the pet store! They likely eat larvae... or little bugs. Frogs are cute!

You can buy crickets at Petco they come in different sizes depending on the size of whatever animal you are feeding. Lizards eat them and I imagine frogs would too.

buy crickets from the pet store. Also it is more likely a toad than a frog, frogs have a slime on their skin that make them kinda gooey to the touch... toads do not. Take your new pet to a pet-store (not walmart, they don't know!) and ask.

Toads are much easier to care for than frogs as they don't need water to swim in and frogs to have to maintain a working aquarium.