Very informative, dear Pharaoh!
Was it in "He Died With a Falafel in His Hand" that someone was playing golf with Cane Toads as balls? Very funny, but oh so cruel.
Yep.
I thought I'd leave the methods of despatching the varmints out of the main article, but I'm sure there are a million stories to tell. I shall start the ball rolling, so to speak.
The golf club is by far the most favoured method of removing Cane Toads from one's lawn in Queensland, and I believe a 4-Wood is the club of choice for the discerning toad removalist. This is rarely an effective method of sending the victim off to toady heaven though, and generally serves only to remove them from one's immediate presence - all the way over next-door's fence, with luck. If 'them next door' happen to have one of those particularly annoying yappy dogs one may even hope to kill two birds with one stone, as it were, although dogs generally have one near miss with a CT and then won't touch them again.
A more humane method is to gather them up, put them in a plastic bag and bung them in the freezer for a few days. (Make sure you have Mum's permission for this, boys and girls, or bad things are likely to happen) It's important when using this method to ensure that the CTs are left in the freezer for three or four days, since a mere overnight/24 hour sojourn won't bother them at all. I've seen them thaw out and hop away after 48 hours in amongst the ice cream and fish fingers.
The damned things can be incredibly hard to kill. In non-golfing households it's sometimes convenient to stop a toad in its tracks by pinning it to the Earth with a handy garden- or pitch-fork, but this is only a stop-gap until something more fatal can be arranged. A toad immobilised in this way will quite happily resume its journey when the fork is removed, even after a day or two.
I've heard rumours that even a Saltie won't eat a Cane Toad but I can't attest to any personal knowledge of this being the case.
