Cat food 'the secret to stopping cane toads'

[News Bot]

Published On: 18-Feb-10 06:07 PM
Source: AFP via NEWS.com.au

AUSTRALIA'S poisonous plague of cane toads finally met its match in a can of cat food.

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[Bricked]

cool, lets kill those toads

 

[gecko-mad]

awesome, seems so basic.

 

[kensai]

Lets all donate cat food to Qld and the NT, every pond looks better with cat food

 

[KRONYK94]

i still remeber when we used to play golf and basebal with cane toads =)

 

[pyrodarknessanny]

reading the title i thourght the cat food was posien or something, but ants you say?

 

[Snakeluvver2]

Im putting a can of cat food along every aquatic system i know
on the weekend hahaha

 

[Bretsta]

break out the whiskers then!!!!

 

[JasonL]

I see this as a pretty useless way of "controlling" toads, a; raising the ant population could have other effects on the environment, b; as soon as the ants die down another billion toads will fill any void in the toad population. At best, it may work to a degree around some specific small control areas.

 

[redbellybite]

As I live in a cane toad area ,I have noticed over the last ten years the decrease in them ,when my family and I first moved to the area , the toads were everywhere .....these days ,although there is no shortage of them , they seem to be down in numbers ,so hoping thats cause other animals have now been able to tolerate the toad ,besides the keelback ,I have also seen the crows flip the toads over and consume them...wether they are leaving the glands alone ,I am not sure ..but can honestly say we are not as populated with them as we were in 2000.....

 

[Jonno from ERD]

The reason for the lack of toads over the last few years has been the lack of rainfall. They will be back to their numbers of the mid to late 90's over the next 12 months after all the rain and flooding we've had.

 

[redbellybite]

The reason for the lack of toads over the last few years has been the lack of rainfall. They will be back to their numbers of the mid to late 90's over the next 12 months after all the rain and flooding we've had.

well thats a point too Jonno ,.........have to keep an eye on them ...

 

[Ramsayi]

Wonder if the ants are immune to the toxin? If not wiping out all the ants in an area could cause another problem.