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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Slugs, especially stepping on them, especially in

> the dark, especially in bare feet.



I'm with you on this one - my cat hides in the bushes at night, then jumps on the bed, I put out my hand to stroke her only to discover half a dozen little slimers stuck in her fur - bleurgh.....

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Yuck! As if the general slimeyness wasn't bad

> enough, I've seen slugs eating fox poo in the

> garden. They're one of the few creatures I don't

> mind killing (usually in a bucket of boiling

> water).


I keep a salt bucket in the garden (under cover) to deposit the little (and sometimes large!) slimers in... and snails too if they're going to nibble on something I don't want them to (our garden would be a desert otherwise).


Not sure it's irrational rage, but today insurance renewals are doing my head in!

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> I've had a horrible flashback of me, slugs and

> matches as a kid...that wee air hole was made to

> hold a match...


Dear God! That one's going to haunt me.

actually, I've come to appreciate slugs and snails.

Because they eat the fox poo, I don't have to clear it out of the garden! They eat weeds and plant cuttings too, so I don't have to work hard to bag garden waste up and then hope that the council takes it away. I've found that if they've got a decent supply of decaying vegetation, they'll generally leave live plants alone.

I've 'pelleted' slugs and snails before now and left them where they 'fell' - taking a look the next day there are bugs and beetles, flies and spiders and all sorts riddling the bloated corpses and carrying off morsels for their grubs. Like a downed elephant consumed by hyenas, vultures, crocs and cats - a miniature Serengeti.

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