How can I get a frog out of my washing machine drain hose?
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October 18th, 2012
Don’t laugh, I have a tree frog stuck in my washers drain hose, I think. For days now I hear his echoing little croak every night.
Clearly he is trapped somewhere in the innards of my washing machine in the garage. I have disconnected the hose but cannot find him. Just now he was feebly croaking again. The sound is muffled from inside the washer somewhere. I feel terrible. He will starve and die soon. Any ideas of how to find him?
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Oh no. Unhook your incoming hose and look for him, then do the same for your drain hose. I would think he’s in the incoming hose. I’m thinking trying to flush the hose with a gentle flow from a garden hose? Put the hose in the drain hose and backflush?
@Adirondackwannabe I am leaving the hose disconnected again, overnight. I thought he might come out but so far, not. I wonder if he is in the barrel somewhere, up underneath the machine. His muffled croaks echo, it is so sad, he calls to the outside frogs but is trapped somewhere. Shit…so much for the Maytag repair guy. lol I might just call them tomorrow, I can’t stand it anymore. It has been at least a week and he is getting weaker, I can tell by his little voice. :-(
@Coloma You and I are animal freaks. Oh god people are going to think I’m nuts. You could flush some flies down to him.
Haha yes, I will try to stuff a moth or two down the hose tonight. Tragic, his comrades are all perched on the porch light right now waiting for the winged feast to fly by. I adore these little guys, they are my outdoor “pets.” They will take moths right out of my fingers, I love them so! haha
Oh man I have no idea how, besides taking the whole thing apart, if A) you know how, B) if you’re willing to. Or just hoping he finds his way out. :/ Could you actually feed him bugs from in there?
Do tree frogs croak when they want to mate? Unless they can call for help, and that it serves a purpose, which I kinda doubt…it’s kinda weird. But poor little guy. Why the hell did he even go in there to begin with anyways?
@Symbeline They are everywhere, hundreds of them. In my plants, they hang out under my hot tub cover where it’s warm and dark, in the hot tub control cupboard, in my house, everywhere! I am under siege of the tree frogs over here. They are so cute and I spend hours keeping their frogitat watered and comfy. lol
I have a frog pond on my deck that I “decorate” with bamboo stalks and make hidey places for them. Well…maybe a zombie frog is in transition, quick, whip up a moth slurpee for the trauma victim. :-)
Seriously, I am going to rescue this guy, one way or another, or one of us will die trying!
Tomorrow morning I am going to pull the machine out and see what the hell I can do.
Yeah, maybe you can get at him easier from the back of the machine or wherever the hose connects to it. Is it possible to stick your arm inside and try to see if you can catch the frog?
Also I’ll get kickin on that moth slurpee. :D
@Symbeline Oh god. The moth slurpee sounds like a great idea for Fear Factor.
I could drink that. Sure as hell beats grabbing goat testicles with your teeth from inside a vat full of maggots. Fuckin hate that show LOL.
I have to hit the hay sweet lady.
I shall report back after I give myself a hernia in the morning moving a giant shelf unit, a table and trying to drag the machine out from the wall. lol
Poor little dude, he is quiet now after his frantic croaking, he needs to conserve his energy.
Does anyone know how many breaths to compressions one needs to do for frog CPR?
@Adirondackwannabe “Flush some flies down to him” thats the cutest thing I ever heard.
I love amphibians!
Tie a length of string to one of it’s legs & the other end to a remote controlled toy car, then it can be safely toad out.
@ucme LOL
Well…7:50 a.m. and all is quiet, but the frog, being mostly noctural does not croak during the day. I can only be guided by his croak which he still stops as soon as he hears me approaching. We shall see if I can find him this morning or…I will wait til he goes off again around sunset, early evening. I hope I don’t find a rattlesnake under the machine, maybe that is WHY the frog is in there to begin with. Stalked by a snake.
Eventually if he does not eat, he will die. You could then say you have a croaked croaker.
@elbanditoroso Yes, that’s what I am afraid of, he has been croaking for at least a week now somewhere in the machine. I am sure he is a skinny frog.
Can’t you just run some sort of quick rinse cycle and wash him out? Nothing that spins or agitates, but one where the washer fills with water and then pumps out? Like the ‘soak’ setting perhaps?
@cazzie I have been running the machine as usual, using only cold or warm settings, he is either somewhere else inside or migrating around. It’s a mystery, but, I believe he is trapped as I hear the same echoing “croak” every night when he should be out hunting due to their nocturnal nature.
The poor thing. You don’t think he is just hiding underneath or behind it? You think he is actually stuck inside the machine? awwww….
He really should have toad the line and stayed away from the laundry room.
As soon as I read this question I knew who had asked it. I would remove the washing machine drain hose and lay it out on the floor. It is no use anyway with a frog in it. You can then try to cut the frog free. Or you could just froget all about it.(typo, sorry).
^^^ Haha, that obvious huh? Well us nutty nature freaks, but HEY…I have left the hose out all night and just NOW I saw a frog on the wall right near the drain pipe where the hose fits!
I scooped him up and put him out and put the hose back in the pipe. I will find out if it was THE frog after dark if I do not hear anymore muffled croaking echos emanating from the hose. I hope, I hope, I hope…. :-D
It’s not that hard, really, to take the back of the washer off. It just unscrews. Please find the little guy!
PS….once upon a time, unbeknownst to my dad and his wife, a little frog somehow got between a plant pot and the saucer…and grew there! When they found him he was all flat…but alive. How’s that for freaky.
Sat. morning now and NO croaking from the machine last night. I think the frog I found on the wall must have been the trapped one. Yay! May he enjoy feasting after his fast. :-)
…Either that or the poor guy CROAKED in your hose. I crack myself up!
@Dutchess_III I whapped the hose around to dislodge anything stuck, no dead frog flew out, so, optimistic it was THE frog.The good news is that frogs just dehydrate and become jerkified, they don’t decompose like bigger things do, they just shrink up and mummify. lol
Well that’s-good news. I think. ;p
Did you visually inspect the hose and inside the machine, when the hose was disconnected?
@Brian1946 Yes, the hose is white crinkley plastic and I shook it out and held it up to the light, no frog and no more croaking. :-)
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