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I Couldn’t Leave It There To Die
We have a pool, and it has always been at this house since before we bought our house and moved in, way back in 1988. There have been a variety of creatures in this pool over the years, from insects to dogs, and many in between.
The one in the image below, is one that I will always try to help out of the pool, because I know it will get sick from the chlorine in the pool and die.
Anyway, I didn’t want this frog in our pool to die. My hausband had mentioned there was a frog in the pool yesterday, he tried to catch it, but it jumped away. And today I had a look in the pool, and sure enough there was a frog in the pool, a beautiful little frog, a little bit bigger than a mouse, but with long back legs, instead of a long tail!
Apparently this type of frog lives around where I live, and in much of the eastern side of Australia. I live on the central southern part of Austalia, in South Australia and this frog, the Spotted Marsh Frog, is well know in the lower eastern part of South Australia, as well as all of Victoria, New South Wales, the lower eastern half of Queensland, and also the eastern side of Tasmania.
So, there was the frog, I knew I couldn’t use the same pool implement as my husband did, because it may have the same result. I needed to save the sweet little croaker!
