Snaffling Snails
After a promisingly sunny start to the day it rained. Big, fat, thundery drops came down for about an hour, leaving behind air not fresh, but thick and muggy.
This encouraged the large snails that inhabit every nook, cranny and crevice of our “natural looking” garden to come out and play. This is all fine (apart from the distressing crunches from underfoot it often brings) but our three cats have good reason not to share our relaxed approach to snails.
They are pampered pussies who only wander the garden supervised, and when they can’t be supervised they go into their outdoor area which consists of a run with multi-level shaleving for sun-bathing and birdspotting, a tented area for the ginger one to avoid the sun, and an insulated and linoleumed shed, equipped with cushions, pillows and a duvet for avoiding the thought they are outdoors at all!
As one of them is diabetic food is provided all the time to even out his eating. This comes in the form of special slow energy release diabetic cat biscuits. Snails like these too. When I popped out a moment ago to escort the three lovelies indoors I found their bowl being raided by three fat snails with one of the cats sat watching in disgust! I grabbed the camera and managed to get a snap of one of the perpetrators before they sped away……if you see this snail do not approach him. He is a desperado on the run from the law and may be dangerous..
Blimey mate your cats really do get 5* treatment
Lovely pic
Snails. Mmmmm Scoff em Lou, don’t let all that veggie nonsense sway you!!
I have used a copper ring around my pot plants to preven them getting scoffed by the snails/slugs, its on a roll of tape and can be purchased from good garden centres, seems to work.
Matt