Originally Posted By Sluggo >:-( *turns north toward Oregon* > *sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiide............sliiiiiiiiiiiiiide...........sliiiiiiiiiiiiide*
Originally Posted By iceknyght Goodgirl! Run! There is a slug coming for ya! You only have about 20 years to get out of the house!!!!
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Sluggo? Sweetie, if you're reading this, it's your Auntie Pixie here. Remember me? I was the nice lady who did NOT scream in horror at your very existence. Oh, yeah, and I was bleeding. Okay, good, you do remember me now. Sluggo, I can assure you that Kar2oonMan's dog, Buddy, is right. He's a very good man, and he rescued you from goodgirl. Now I know it would take you pretty much the rest of your life to slither all the way up to Oregon to get her, so maybe you should just let this go and return to your happy life in Lisa's kitchen.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww, found my laptop in the grass with slime all over it. Cookies - History - Temp Files - Amtrak.com??? Uh huh!!
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Originally Posted By Sluggo I have become immune to dish soap and water thanks to extended easy access to Ms. Lisann's dishwasher and kitchen exploration. Bring it on you sluggophobe. 19 years...
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Originally Posted By Lisann22 Slugs are hermaphrodites: they all have male and female reproductive systems. Yes, they can mate with themselves!!! They can stretch to 20 times their normal length enabling them to squeeze through openings to get at food. Slugs can follow slime trails they left from the night before. Other slugs can also pick up on this same trail creating a slug network to the host plants! Slugs and snails actually both have shells. Slugs' shells are much smaller and not visible as they are underneath the flesh on their back. Slug eggs are in the soil just about everywhere. They can be there for years and then hatch when conditions are right. It actually takes moisture to allow them to hatch. To identify the eggs look for oval shaped white colored eggs in moist soil areas, under rocks, and boards. Eggs are laid in clusters of two dozen eggs each. The adults also overwinter in the soil and can live for many years. In the Northwest they have banana slugs which are bright yellow, grow to 8 inches with some up to 18 inches! Slugs have important ecological roles. They help cycle organic matter, which in turns helps to build healthy, rich soil.(1) They also are food for wildlife, including raccoons, possums, garter snakes,(1) toads, turtles, and birds.(2)
Originally Posted By goodgirl Between the sea cucumbers in the water and slugs in the garden, I'm doomed.
Originally Posted By friendofdd I can't believe this. I come home from an arduous day, with grandchildren, in DCA, sit down to relax at LP and then read this topic in one sitting. It is far too deep! I need waders and have only wellies. AND the sno-cone ice is completely covered in the stuff. What to do? What to do?
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Nice try, goodgirl, but Nicia no longer scares me. She's openly neurotic and hostile, and when she goes on one of her spitting, hissing, swatting rampages, she has the self restraint to keep her claws retracted. AND she doesn't bite. So while she can startle her victim with her sudden outbursts, no real harm is done. Simba, on the other hand. . . oh, that sneaky little Simba. Here's this adorable, nervous little chihuahua. He's always been just the sweetest thing, loved all over me on previous encounters, sits on everyone's lap looking helpless. Plus he's had medical issues lately (allegedly, although I, for one, have seen no actual evidence of said health problems). Poor, poor little Simba. I was just thrilled the little guy had weathered his latest health crisis and looked so well. So naturally when he jumped (uninvited) onto my lap, I wanted to show the little dear how much he is loved. So I pet him. I give him a little hug. I become so enchanted that I bend over to tell him how precious he is and RAAHRRRR!! Suddenly I'm bleeding, everyone's shrieking about how I may have just given Simba rabies, and my attacker is sitting on Iceknyght's lap looking pathetic and occasionally shooting me a triumphant sideways glance when no one else is looking. And yet, AND YET, who was it who rescued him and dried him off after he'd fallen in the pool and was fleeing from Lisann in terror? That's right. Poor old Pixie. There I was, forgiveness in my heart and a warm towel in my hands to scoop him up and dry him off before he could catch his death of cold. *Sigh* This never would have happened if friendofdd and his sno cone machine had been there.
Originally Posted By quincytoo >>>>Slugs are hermaphrodites: they all have male and female reproductive systems. Yes, they can mate with themselves!!! <<<< B..bUT didn't someone say (Litter I think) that Sluggo had not disappeared but had dashed over to that speed dating service?? Chicken I too was confused and being the sweet tender hearted Canadian that I am, it was hard to imagine that lil Litter could be capable of such a crime, I mean jheez..you go to a host's house and reward them with afficting severe trauma to their beloved PETS??? Poor sweet Sluggo is in hiding and dearest darling Simba, well it is too soon to tell if Simba will ever get over the horrors inflicted abon that little angel this weekend.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<She's openly neurotic and hostile, and when she goes on one of her spitting, hissing, swatting rampages, she has the self restraint to keep her claws retracted. AND she doesn't bite. So while she can startle her victim with her sudden outbursts, no real harm is done.>> Glitter! WHAT THE?!?... That is the EXACT text of one of last year's Golden Doobie nominations for you!
