'tis the season of the year!

[alanc]

I got a glimpse of a brown smudge on Tilly's rear as she came in and thought "Oh no, she's got diarrhea" and set of after her with paper towels and a sponge. It was just a large brown leaf stuck on her backside!

[bobbys girl]

Could have been worse! I did the same once, thinking that it WAS a leaf, only to find it was a SLUG! Ergh yuk blerch, nasty.

[alanc]

Slugs, yuk! I've had to comb too many of them out of Tilly's fur this summer!

[meriad]

Same here Alan, the joys of having long haired cats and a garden.

As for the leaves; I swear that most days I have more garden stuff inside the house than outside. It's a losing battle, it really is

[MarySkater]

Yep. There's a shrub with tiny leaves which overhangs my garden. And Ria always comes in with another leaf on her tail. But I'm not houseproud - they can lie around until my once-weekly hoovering...

[Lilith]

Slugs ...I actually quite like slugs, unless they murder my plants and then it's WAR.

But a few years ago, when my old lad Finn had started to be faecally incontinent, the slugs used to give me a nasty turn.

There are some monster ones out the back and to go out, barefoot, on a moist summer's night and feel my foot descending on a cigar-shaped object, squish, fearing the worst as I hobbled back in for the kitchen roll, only to find that it wasn't an offering of Finny's that I'd trodden on, but a slug ...ugh! Delightful! Not!

Didn't do the poor old slug much good either

[Crewella]

Slugs - bah!!

Every summer I get slugs in the outdoor pen, especially round the food bowl. This year I removed at least three a night from Buzz's bowls, including the ones I found doing a leisurely backstroke in his water bowl, which I started to call the 'slug spa' - huge great big things which I took to the middle of the lawn hoping something would eat them. Bleuch!

[alanc]

Slugs ...I actually quite like slugs, unless they murder my plants and then it's WAR.

I lost that war long ago! Slugs in my garden rival those in Crewella's. Local frog does his best, but there are just too many of the things.

[catslave16]

I found a little nugget of poo in Rufus's long bottom fur today which grossed me out just a tiny bit, but I'd have been really grossed out by a slug There should be an emoji for 'being on the point of barfing'!