Okay folks, here is my poblem. About ten years ago we started to get some tree frogs hanging out in the yard and swimming in the pool. Usually by late June they were gone. The next year they came back and stayed most of the summer. friends teased me and said that it meant I should embrace water more. Soon frog statutes and frog wall art and bobble head frogs began arriving as gifts from friends and family. The frogs presence grew as did the collection. One day a few years ago I spent a morning collecting rafts of frog eggs from the pool and hauling them in buckets across the street and down a steep hill to the wide creek where i felt they belonged.

Our pool is non-chlorinated and we have lots of natural areas for them to hang out in out of the water.

Well it is getting harder and harder to deal with. This year we counted four seperate varity of frogs living in the yard with us. Including four HUGH bullfrogs. In the house collection I have added a large ceramic bowl with frogs perched around the edge. Now for the problem. We do not have the proper area for frogs to over winter in. But this year, they have not moved off on their own they way they usually do in the fall. Before chlorinating the pool and covering it for the winter, my husband and I thought we managed to catch and transport to the creek all of the frogs (plus a baby snapping turtle). BUT, still they are here, hopping around on the pool cover and jumping into the hot tub. The nearest natural water as I said is across the street and down a steep hill. There are no ponds or standing water anywhere near us.

HELP, I need some suggestions on how to convince these guys to leave before it gets too cold and they freeze. They need to be down at the creek in order to hibernate.

Judy