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04-Jun-04, 08:42 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | |
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04-Jun-04, 08:53 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | Poor Frog  |
04-Jun-04, 09:00 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: North Brisbane Metro | | | | why couldnt they send it back b@#$%*ds
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Darwins rule !!!!
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04-Jun-04, 09:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | | | they could of contained it till they got back to oz
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I should not advertise in my signature.
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04-Jun-04, 10:12 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | Yeah.... But poor lady with the frog salad |
04-Jun-04, 10:44 PM
| | | | Sc*w the lady with the salad, its just a frog. They could have kept it on the plane, and released it in aus. Pr*cks. |
04-Jun-04, 11:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: victoria australia | | | | poor frog
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i might be getting a NT carpet python
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05-Jun-04, 08:51 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: South-West Brisbane | | | | They're just lazy b*stards! |
05-Jun-04, 08:55 AM
|  | Yes, that Hix Moderator | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Sydney | | | | Had it come back to Australia, AQIS would have seized it and it may have been euthanased anyway.
Hix
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05-Jun-04, 11:56 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-03 Location: Oz - Whoop Whoop | | | | It upset me. But I'm okay now *sniffles*
I watched an "Australian Story" about a lady who found frogs in her stores produce. She decided to find out where the frogs were coming from by identifying them and then set up a system with a local trucking company to take them back to their original home areas.
The truckies would recieve the frog all packed up safely and take it to the locality where they returned it to the particular grower whos fruit and vegetables it was among.
The men were burly tough looking truckies and farmers - and they showed the farmer and the truckie looking on, smiling and saying "go frog" as they set it free.
It made me grin.
Em |
05-Jun-04, 12:42 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney, NSW | | | | The problem is that chytrid fungus, which is a major problem, can be easily spread by releasing frogs, when the EXACT location that the frog was on before is unknown. There is no easy way (but the CSIRO is developing it) to tell if a frog has chytrid. Often by the time the frog shows symptons it is beyond cure.
Organistaions such as FATS will pick up stowaway frogs, often from fruit markets, and quarentine them for a period of 3 months, and in that time they are treated as if they are contaminated with chytrid. After that period they are passed on to licenced frog keepers.
Alexahnder |
05-Jun-04, 09:04 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | Yep Alex, 50m from original site is the surrent standard for releasing frogs.
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05-Jun-04, 09:16 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney, NSW | | | | i have even heard that one pond may have chytrid carrying frogs and another a few metres away may not. |
05-Jun-04, 11:50 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gold Coast Age: 35 | | | | ROFLMAO Please lets not get started on the death sentence for relocating. But back to the original story, that's just plain bloody cruel!!!!!! I am now a converted frog lover and would shudder to think of someone doing harm to these cute little guys.Yes I know Fuscy what I said before and now I am converted so leave me alone!!!!! LOL
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