"Where are you, Australia? The land where everything can kill you? :-D"

Not quite everything! Most of us are quite harmless.

We don't seem to get many snails or slugs, perhaps because I don't (shame on me I know) have a vegetable garden. I deal with slugs by sprinkling a little salt on them - they shrivel up. Yuk. But it gets rid of them. It would probably work for snails too, but somehow they don't seem as offensive as naked slugs so I don't worry about them too much. Is it true that that ducks can keep snails under control by eating them?

Cheers
JennieG