Thank you Sweet Betsy for sharing your poetry. Have had goats and sheep among others and they have unique personalities. One of my favorite funny memories is when they got into the pomegranate bush and the sheep cane out with red stains around their mouths.

Do birds eat the slugs? I have quite a few Carolina wrens here, having raised 3 generations of them in a pig flower pot sitting on my deck railing, hidden from view by a bougainvillea. Those little things police all the hosta pots, and I'm sure that's why I've failed to find a single cutworm or whatever this year.....but I've definitely had leaf damage from the worms. I sure hope they are eating the slugs too. Then of course there are the toads. And then the snakes as well. I'm always cautious about them, since we are in a rather wetlands kind of area where water drains off down toward the lowland into Dog River. That means in extremely hot weather, we might be frequented by moccasins and coral snakes. I try not to keep brush piles very long for that reason. However, the vacant house adjacent to my back yard lovely neighbor has multiple brush piles where all sorts of wildlife lives. Wish I could have a couple of chickens, but do not dare try that again--until my roofwalking neighbor moves or dies. I also love the turtles which motor through the garden on occasion. I have a sturdy watering container...a birdbath w/out a stand...especially for them, and place cantaloupe and watermelon and busted tomatos beneath the pink pirogue for their dining pleasure. Lack of water has seldom been a problem for long this year. We've already had more than 50 inches of rain so far. My DH says that an inch of rain = a foot of snow.....so we'd be in deep trouble if it turned to snow. :)

Such amazing creatures - this one is a real beauty! Years ago, they were plentiful and you could see them often, but not so much any more. In Florida, they loved my greenhouse - guess it was a buffet of insects in the hot and humid greenhouse.

If today was April 1, I would like this was an April Fool's joke. I see several things that could be it but I am not even 50% sure of any of them.