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It didn't look like that, but up on the roof one day I found a tree frog (I assume) in the vent pipe from the bathroom. It was a hot summer day, and it was one of those smooth, shiny-skinned frogs which I'd think wouldn't survive more than a few minutes in the sun. How he got there, I'll never know. Could they live in the drain pipes and/or septic tank?
 

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A long time ago I had one in my cellar for years.
 

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These cuban tree frogs are an invasive nuisance and threaten our native frogs they also do damage as they clog drains and they can get in electrical boxes and they secrete an irritant on their skin which can burn your eyes or your skin so the University of Florida site said wear gloves an capture them
and put a benzocaine on their back to numb them then put in a plastic bag sealed in your freezer and when they’re dead discard them but you have to kill them humanely. I don’t see where one method of killing is more humane than the other.

What would scare me is if I go in my bathroom in the middle of the night and one jumps on me. The main thing, the head of my bed is along the same wall as my bathroom door and I have a big four poster which I can’t move myself the chances of one jumping on my face in the middle of the night freaks me out. These critters can get up to 6”.

I put a backflow preventer on a spigot near this bathroom and it drips so I need to try and fix it as moisture attracts these stupid frogs.
 

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We were building the house right behind our house, so we would just pop home for lunch and we heard a frog as we did. On our way back he was still crooking and my son went looking for him. Our lots all have a 10" storm drain and here it was in the back yard with no lid and the frog was at the bottom about 10 ft down. My son nail a long stick to a little block and puts it down the hole. I said not a chance he will get on it. I was wrong. he jumped on it right away and took the elevate ride up.
 
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