oops, strimmed a toad...

[hailtryfan]

....yesterday

Feeling bad about it so thought i'd offload some guilt on the fair folk of the vine.

They live for up to 40 years you know

[janeyo]

Oh No! I'd feel terrible too. But maybe (just trying to make you feel better) it was poorly or surely it would have crawled out of the way...

[Nicos]

That's exactly how I felt a couple of years ago when a couple of frogs fried themselves at the base of electric fence which keeps the foxes away from our chooks

Strangely- not had a repetition of that since. Maybe I've killed the only mating pair in our area

[lindyloo]

me too--i felt like a murderer when i strimmed a frog- i still feel guilty. and strangely, my garden was inundated my frogs previous to that, but since that year, i have had no frogs at all. i think the survivors put the word out about me.

[vicky]

I uncovered a nest of baby voles when strimming the meadow a few weeks ago...all dead in the morning. It does make you feel awful for a bit.
And I've trimmed a hedgehogs spines too with a strimmer, fortunately that's all I got.
Even though I'm really careful and alret to creatures now I still occasionally get one esp in the long grass.

[blito]

a colleague of mine strimmed at rat whilst doing the "garden" area at work! Made quite a mess too!

[hailtryfan]

Blimey. Toads, frogs, rats and voles! Who'd have thought they'd be so many strimmer related animal deaths?

Diffusion of guilt has now made me feel better

[Two_Sheds]

... I still occasionally get one esp in the long grass.

Funny that, being that's where the critters hide out

I can't use a strimmer for that very reason: I use shears, and even then the silly frogs wait until the last minute to make a dash for it

[wykesmallholder]

machine related animal cull

I had the same feeling of guilt when i was cutting the grass along the paths on lottie site I had pretty much done and thought I'll just run over this bit of bramble and clump of grass and that was that frog/toad ejected from back of mower no grass box on either so bits all over my boots and pant leg not a very pretty sight