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Got squirted by a garden slug
Minosgardener
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Okay this is a new one for me! I picked up a slug and it squirted me with a slimy yellow substance. I've never had this happen before - it took quite a bit of scrubbing to get it off. When I came back it hadn't gone that far and it then met my chickens. Didn't know that slugs had a defence mechanism, I assume all the others were na??ve and trusted me...
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Yuck, you poor thing
I remember those copulating slugs from one of David Attenborough's programmes
Look away now if you're squeamish
Slugs roost (or whatever slugs do) under pots in my nursery. I pick them off til I get a handful, then put them on the slabs and tread on them. They always ooze slime on my hand en route to their death.
In the sticks near Peterborough
In the sticks near Peterborough
I once made the mistake of picking up a large slug bare handed because I couldn't be bothered to get my gloves. Well the time it took to scrub all the yukky slime off, I could have gone and got my gloves about 5 times. I didn't realise the slimy stuff was so resistance to soap!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that this is new to! I have picked up literally hundreds if not thousands of slugs in my time and have neevr had this happen before. Maybe the word has got out that I throw them to the chickens now.
Fleurisa - I was feeling quite anxious at not being able to get it off with soap and the scrubbing brush!
I remember spending hours trying to get a slug off the nose of my inquisative West Highland Terrier.
After a while using a strimmer i get covered in slug guts and pieces, on all my cloths , my hands , arms, face, hair you name it. I am that used to it now it doesn't even bother me