Mr Mole

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I sort of have mixed feelings about moles. Having discovered one under the stairs last year and as Moles are not known for any particular predilection for relocating to 2 bed semi’s I think Dave (my cat) must have captured him and brought him home. I have no idea why? Are cats so enamoured of our human way of life that they have developed a need to keep pets of their own? Did Dave plan on domesticating Mr Mole? Who knows, in any event, having had this close encounter I have to say I was utterly charmed by this funny little fellow, from his huge and totally disproportionate pink hands, to his soft shiny velvet coat, he was a delight to behold and rather reminded me of a Hamster in a black fur and pink marigolds. As it was daytime when I discovered him, I was reluctant to put him back outside, until nightfall and suspecting he might be hungry, I went into the garden and rooted around for a couple of slugs and dropped them into the box Mr Mole was now in. He seized them bit then swallowed them whole, just like Oysters! He rooted around sniffing for more and I duly obliged. What struck me particularly about Mr Mole, was the size of this little fellows appetite. Slug followed slug, six huge ones in fact, which if laid together would have been similar in size to his little self. At Sunset I bade him farewell put him at the back of the greenhouse and left him to his own devices. The reason for my mixed feelings now? Well my daughter has a recently had a mole move into or rather underneath her Garden, evidential by the odd mound of newly turned earth on her lawn every other morning. However what she does not now have, as I do, is a trillion, million slugs, munching away from sun-down to sun-up on every plant in her garden and having met delightful Slug eater extraordinaire, Mr Mole, I am wondering which is the lesser of the two evils? Whilst a mound of earth on a lawn is unsightly, it is only cosmetic damage and easily remedied. Whilst an eaten Petunia is clearly beyond salvation, green fingers or not! So I am thinking that there may be some advantage in having your very own Mr Mole aka super slug assassin which may outweigh the minor inconvenience of levelling some earth once a day?

• 11 May, 2015
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