But dad might be happy to learn that this slug is not like the brown ones he picks in his summer house garden and puts into buckets of salt, cursing them as if they were his biggest enemy in the whole wide world. No, this is a banana slug, and it is actually a vital part of this coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem. Not to be salted. So, slugs are not all bad.
… as long as they’re not eating all the strawberries.
Katja Malmborg 
Thanks for the slug. Cute.