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47p2
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I'm sure you will have many happy hours of pleasure from the snail Rick 
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47p2
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I must admit, I do find snails rather repulsive.
When I moved to my present house the garden was over-run with them. On a damp evening you could easily find a couple of dozen crawling over the car.
A pair of size 8 steel toecap boots certainly helped keep the population at bay
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| 47p2 wrote: | I must admit, I do find snails rather repulsive.
When I moved to my present house the garden was over-run with them. On a damp evening you could easily find a couple of dozen crawling over the car.
A pair of size 8 steel toecap boots certainly helped keep the population at bay |
Hi
If you don't have cats and dogs, go to the local wildlife rehoming centre, and say you would like to provide a safe home for some hedgehogs, your snails will soon become a thing of the past!
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If you went to the same boot fairs as me yesterday they were rather busy, I was very good, and didn't spend much, was tempted by a few things, but they were rather dear!
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47p2
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I've got a dog who sleeps outside all year round and can smell hedgehog at 20 yards 
He is the only dog I have ever seen who can grab a fully grown hedgehog in his mouth without harmimg himself
On the other hand, I do get a sort of sense of calm from the crunching noise the shells make when the size 8s come into play 
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Greeney in France
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Talking of hedgehogs you should see what they sell in the supermarkets here for getting rid of them, an exploding mine, stick it in a hole with trigger facing down, when the unsuspecting creature touches it with it nose KaBOOM   "no terrorists here"
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| Greeney in France wrote: | | ................................an exploding mine, stick it in a hole with trigger facing down, when the unsuspecting creature touches it with it nose KaBOOM "no terrorists here" |
Guess what's on my Christmas list
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Greeney in France
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Think I would get into deep do do if I sent one in the post 
One of the silly neighbours stuck gas down the hole too and blew his whole garden up and nearly himself
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Why do that to poor inoffensive hedgehogs,
| Quote: | | In areas that have hedgehogs in the wild, they are often welcomed as a natural form of garden pest control. Many people leave food out to attract hedgehogs. |
now moles I could understand. |
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