creature in my garden

*this post is not for the faint hearted*

early this morning i have discovered something on my garden bed. took me a while to figure out what it was. it wasn't a snake, wasn't a garden lizard. then what is it!?!?!?!?!?!?!

it's a SLUG!!!!!! it's nothing new but what i have witnessed this morning is definitely something new. the darn thing is 6 to 7 inches long!!!!!! what a revolting way to start my day.

anyways Slug is like a snail but without a shell. So imagine escargo without snails.
anyways, i saw 3 this morning. Wonder if it's my bad luck or theirs ..i decided to sprinkle granulated coffee on them. read somewhere that these creatures hate coffee powder. they started to shrivel a bit but secreted lots of slimy silvery looking slime. but after those sslimy thing, they appear to have gone back to normal. so i decided to use the ultimate weapon.
SALT! remembered they dried up when their body come in contact with salt.

so i started to sprinkle them with salt and the two of them started to shrivel quite badly and even looked kinda deformed. then i decided i would leave them alone as i wanna go and prepare to go to work.

wonder if they are dead by now.

i was so motivated to find out more ways to kill slugs that i spent my lunch time googling about them. argh ..can't believe myself. but seriously they are such a pest they make holes in the lamb's ears i am planting.

so here's the gory pics. i took several of them but none turned out exceptionally well. most of them are blur.
*you might have to squint a bit to see the slimy creatures. they are almost as long as the width of the fence! *EUWWWWWWW

if you squint harder you will be able to see the silvery slimy thread they left on the soil.

am only putting one pic coz they look so offensive.