Slugs = Uber-gross

Have you ever left home for the weekend and found something super gross when you came home? We did this weekend. We went to Redmond to play for Derby days ( Lots of fun!) and got home really late last night. It had been hot all weekend, so it was toasty in the house. We were opening all the windows and the back door, when I saw there were a bunch of huge slugs on the back deck. I called Josh over to check out the giant slugs, when we looked at the side of the house and saw this. eeeeeeeeeewwwwwww!

Ick. That would be two slugs intertwined around each other, hanging from what looks like a giant loogey. After watching for a couple minutes, the clearish white things emerged that you can see in the pictures, and they were moving around each other too. Weird! So we started wondering if they were mating? So Josh watched the slugs, while I got online and found a youtube video that confirmed that they were definitely slugs getting frisky. Gross!
Here's a close up of the blobs mixing (turns out slugs are neither male nor female....so they just refer to them both as male parts mixing and fertilizing each other.) Another reason slugs are gross...
And here they are "flowered out" just before finishing up.

So we let them finish their "business" and then promptly sprinkled Slug Death around the deck, and sprinkled (ok, dumped) salt on their frisky bodies. No baby slugs on my watch....

Slugs have reached a whole new level of gross in my book!