Our cat walked into the house triumphantly with a slow-worm in her mouth and dropped it by us, then looked up as if to get a whole lot of praise! For once she didn't hurt it so it was a great opportunity to take some photos! This one has lost it's tail before and grown a new one... slow-worms are actually legless lizards not snakes and can't hurt you or we wouldn't have picked it up!
We've got a few in our garden, they mainly hide in the compost heap and under planks or plastic on hot days etc. They eat slugs and other pesky bugs so are great for your garden and beautiful :) The first time I found one in the garden I was about three and I picked it up and showed it to Mum who was hanging out the washing on the line... I exclaimed "Look Mummy I've found a big worm" I can just imagine her face because at the time she thought it was a snake and was 8 months pregnant with David!
After taking a look at it we released it into out compost bin.
Here is a video of its release... I just hope our cat doesn't catch it again... lol!
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We found one in our garden yesterday. It was a huge!! Daniel was delighted. He placed it down at the top of the lawn and followed it all the way down the garden.
One of our cats used to bring these in, they are beautiful things aren't they. Isaac has adopted a pet snail, it lives in a big box with lots of clematis flowers, he has called it Stephen!
I have never seen a slow worm before there really cool, i like how that in the video it suddenly flips its back end up!! I hope your cat doesn't eat it!
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