This year has been one of annihilation in gardens all over Britain. The slugs and snails that thrived in a wet spring and damp early summer seem to have grown to alien proportions and feasted nightly on our precious plants.
As gardeners nationwide pulled out their hair or – like me – armed themselves with buckets and torches each night to seek and destroy the little blighters, many resorted to what seems to be the easiest and most effective way to eradicate the problem – slug pellets.
Those little blue pills scattered around a beloved hosta or a crop of lettuces can undoubtedly save them from gastropod Armageddon for a few nights and are a regular feature of pest control in commercial agriculture.
But they can also have a deadly consequence that few may realise and one that we only learnt about it to our cost – they can kill a healthy dog.
The Telegraph: Poisonous pellets: the slug and snail plague is lethal for dogs
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Very sad, but don't slug pellets have bittering agents to make them unpalatable to both humans and animals? For this very reason.