I accidentally killed a friend the other day, which may seem an odd thing to write about on this thread, but you see the friend was a hedgehog who I'd not realised was living in the garden. Thinking about it, my prickly little friend probably was the reason I'd been finding less and less slugs around. Anyway, I think my friend must have been gorging himself on my slug filled beer traps, and basically drunk himself to death.
He was alive when I first spotted him, but gave me this pitiful look as if he was trying to say 'you go on, I'm done for, someone's spiked my dinner... can you make me better?' as he didn't even flinch as I tried/failed to get some water in it's mouth. I then tried giving it a slug to eat, but even opening it's mouth just seemed like too much effort, so I left it to hopefully sleep off it's hangover in the sun.
Later on when evening came I meant to check if my friend was ok, and put a blanket over him to keep him warm, but to my eternal shame, I forgot, until I'd was lying in bed about to go to sleep, when I jumped out of bed and went into the garden a sinking heart, and alas my friend the hedgehog was by then sleeping the long sleep.
RIP my little spikey friend... I promise not to put any more beer traps out in case any of your friends happen to stop by.