There's a slug in my shower. Not a giant, disgusting one, just a teeny one. Normally, this only happens in the summer. And normally, when it does happen, I just let it crawl onto a sheet of paper and take it outside. Not this time. I would very much like the slug NOT to live in my shower, but it's winter, and if I take the poor slug outside, it will freeze.
I've named him. His name is Friar Ted. Yes, I know this is beyond bizarre, even for me. My love of all creatures great and small doesn't usually go quite this far down the food chain. I do relocate non-venomous spiders, because they are useful and eat bugs for us. And the crickets really can't help it that we built buildings in the middle of their prairie land, so I take them outside, too. And yes, I admit that I named the praying mantis on the front porch. And two spiders. Hey, Sergio and Guido were there for so long, I had to name them. A tree frog did once hibernate in my house. But that was an accident. But a slug...it's just so wrong!
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I warned you that someone is going to eat that thing.
You crack me up. I can only laugh because I am pretty much the same way. However, the slug would be going outside. I think it's sad that people don't realize how amazing spiders and snakes are. We had a spider once that took down and rebuilt her web every single day like clockwork. We would watch her build it in the morning and we watched her take it down in the evening while we sat in the hot tub with a glass of wine - it was so cool!!!
Oh, but yeah........you are totally a weirdo.
I'd like to leave a comment, but alas...
MOM
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I dislike slugs. But you already knew that!
sadly, i'd have grabbed some salt. i too have a hard time killing anything, but my fascination with the chemical reaction of salt vs slug has always won out.
that being said, we have a mouse or two living in our garage. we would relocate them but its too cold. so i let them chew up whatever i have out there instead. i know i'll be very unhappy when i find out what it is. i can hear them chewing it. i just know its something important. and i'll wish that i'd put out traps. but between me and justin, neither of us have the heart.
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