I live just west of Daytona and have never seen one around here. I’ve been here most all of my 54 years. No need to worry about Iguanas, either. But I strongly suggest the BB gun anyway, they are too much fun to not have one.

I hate those fuckers. I live in Miami Beach and we have these cane toads - also called buffo toads - in our backyard and around the neighborhood. We have two some kind of terrier mix dogs and one of them got ahold of a toad. He came back into the house and 10 minutes later was foaming and convulsing. I had no idea. Raced him to the vet, receptionist took one look and said "toad tox." Took him in the back treated him with something (this was about four years ago) and observed him for a while. He was fine. But did he learn his lesson? NO! Couple weeks later he got hold of another one but the vet had told me what to do. The toxin get absorbed by the dog's gums which turn blue or purple. She told me to hold his stupid head under the running sink faucet to flush his mouth while rubbing my finger along his gums to flush the toxin out. Did that and he was immediately fine. Maybe that time it did sink in, no incidents since. You can walk right up to these toads and they don't run (hop?) away so when I see one in our yard I kill it with a knife. But the Beeman pellet pistol looks like more fun so I just ordered one!

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Don’t kill my buzz joel! I basically have the wife convinced I need one.

Mum's the word. My word as a SIGforum member, she'll never know any differently from me!

I have a Gamo Whisper .22 for iguanas and toads. Break barrel and the larger round placed right stops the big iguanas and no issue for the toads. Just pay attention so you are shooting down and what is beyond the target.

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Originally posted by fldigger:
I live just west of Daytona and have never seen one around here. I’ve been here most all of my 54 years. No need to worry about Iguanas, either. But I strongly suggest the BB gun anyway, they are too much fun to not have one.

Agreed, I live just north of World Golf Village and work in Daytona.

There won’t be anything unusual where the OP is landing.

I wouldn't try to face one down with anything less than a Crosman DPMS SBR Full-Auto BB Air Rifle.

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I read a Carl Hiassen novel many years ago where one of the subplots was a character that licked toad secretions to get high. Maybe your dog read the same book?

What a great name for a minor league ball club. "The Yee Haw Junction Toad Lickers". We'd never have to play a game. We'd make tons of money on t-shirts alone.

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If it is legal to discharge a firearm where you intend to dispatch these cane toads, a .22 bolt gun will let you shoot .22 short CB rounds. More power than a common air rifle, plenty accurate, and quieter than most pellet rifles.

I have a nice Ruger GP-100 that will fire .22 LR, .22 Long, or .22 Short. Something like that might be a good alternative to a pellet gun.

But illegal in virtually all FL cities.

Get a long range water gun (like a super soaker) and fill it with sudsy ammonia. All you have to do is hit the toad anywhere with ammonia and they absorb it through their skin and die......

I also have a Gamo whisper .177 pellet rifle that does a good job on most things like Iguana's and rats and so forth.

 
It sounds like the cane toad may be a relative of the large Bufo toads we have here. They are dangerous to curious dogs who might put one in their mouth, due to the toad's poisonous secretions on its skin. They come out especially this time of year, the so-called monsoon season here in AZ.
 
We used to shoot them with shot shells. Then my wife discovered that ammonia will kill them, slowly. Just pour some ammonia on them, and the dogs won't go near them, and the next day you can toss the dead toad away.

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I read a Carl Hiassen novel many years ago where one of the subplots was a character that licked toad secretions to get high. Maybe your dog read the same book?

Toad licking. My last job was at a company that contracted running the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, for HHS. We maintained a large database of substance abuse articles. Occasionally we (tech) would get a report that the database was "broken". The first test was to see if you could connect to it, and it returned records from a simple query. You want a query that returns a very few records only, because this is just a quick test to see if the database is the problem or something else, like network issues. I learned from my predecessor that the query to use was "toad licking", which returned only two records. I learned that toad licking was popular in CA (where else) in the 1980s, because the secretions supposedly gave one a high like LSD.

Never had a dog die...they learn after the first time. A corgi isn't small enough to die from it in my opinion. And I hate to sounds pessimistic but unless you follow your dog around the yard you'll never get rid of all of them.

Better to let the dog learn to be honest. They aren't ad bad as people point out, if they were there would be piles of dead dogs lining Florida streets.

But if that’s the case I have no excuse to buy a pellet gun.

I’ve been thinking about a pellet pistol as well for nuisance animal control. Just ordered a Browning Buckmark URX break action single shot .177 pellet pistol from Amazon as I wanted something more discreet and quieter than my Gamo pellet rifle.

$45, a little lower velocity (320 FPS) but gets good reviews. Covered by Prime so if doesn’t work, can return.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007K7IG1G

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
But if that’s the case I have no excuse to buy a pellet gun.

Lol fair enough, you would not have liked my suggestion of a nail okf the end of a stick.

"Hollywood quiet" as they say

I use a Benjamin Nitro Piston, in .177, to protect my vegetable garden from rabbits and woodchucks.
Destroyer load by Crossman is a real stopper.
Most shot under 10 yds.

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I read a Carl Hiassen novel many years ago where one of the subplots was a character that licked toad secretions to get high. Maybe your dog read the same book?

Toad licking. My last job was at a company that contracted running the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, for HHS. We maintained a large database of substance abuse articles. Occasionally we (tech) would get a report that the database was "broken". The first test was to see if you could connect to it, and it returned records from a simple query. You want a query that returns a very few records only, because this is just a quick test to see if the database is the problem or something else, like network issues. I learned from my predecessor that the query to use was "toad licking", which returned only two records. I learned that toad licking was popular in CA (where else) in the 1980s, because the secretions supposedly gave one a high like LSD.

I read those same books, didn't he skin the toads and smoke the dried skins? It's been awhile since I've read any Hiassen.

I also use a Gamo whisper for dispatching various vermin around the yard although my suppressed ruger MK IV is quite effective and very quiet. Maybe you should petition the wife for a suppressor and host!?

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I have a Gamo Whisper .22 for iguanas and toads. Break barrel and the larger round placed right stops the big iguanas and no issue for the toads. Just pay attention so you are shooting down and what is beyond the target.

Was idling down a residential canal in Islamorada and had a pellet whiz past my head. Don't know how close you have to be to a pellet to hear it, will you do that research for me?

Was it this lady?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kktavXwEag

Why not one of the SIG air guns? I have their 1911-style BB guns (CO2) and P320 pellet guns (CO2). We use them against rats in our chicken coop.