Banana Slug Factoids and funny story
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:59 pm
Okay, I am at this party in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Imagine what goes on there.. Well A friend says the Indians used the defensive slime a Banana slug produces to numb wounds.
Nobody believes it. So a slug is found and presented to the party.
And of course, "yours truly" volunteers to try the indian technique.
I touched the slug to my lips and Lo and behold! My lips are numbed! No Joke, this actually works! It is similar in effect to the topical product Dentists use to numb an area before an injection is made(I think it's called hurricane). Nobody believed me until some other crazy did the same with the same result.
Banana Slugs, or rather their slime, make a good topical anastetic.(No Banana Slugs were harmed during this experiment)
Factoid: Banana Slugs LOVE Dog Food.
If you put kibble out for them, they mob it.
You can actually hear them munching on the stuff.
Of course I have probably angered the animal rights people at having aided in a Banana Slugs deviant desire for Dog kibble... I might have spawned a new generation of slugs...
Just imagine.. Hordes of man habituated Banana slugs knocking down front doors and mauling pet dogs to get at their Kibbles and Bits!
Then there is the sale of the horse ranch.
The previous owner had a singular sense of humor.
While on a tour of the 25 acre property with the real estate agent and two prospective buyers they happened upon a Banana Slug in the middle of the horse trail.
The Owner shouted, "Look Out! Don't get near it!"
The buyers(east coast folks) jumped back. One of the buyers timidly asked, "Is there an issue here?"
To which the owner replied," No, but it might chase you down and bite you!"
The real estate agent rolled her eyes and stepped over the slug.
The buyers CAREFULLY stepped around the slug as if it were a rattlesnake...
The owner just smiled, very much satisfied with himself!
Those same clients came up to my house on the ranch and asked what the big metal tank was for. I told them it was to hold water for the house.
They truly had no idea what I was talking about even after I explained in detail how the water was pumped up from the ground, into the tank, and then pressurized through a line to the house. I still don't think the guy really believed me.
I am absolutely certain they did no get that the only way to heat the house was the wood burning stove.. which does not chop wood for itself!
Needless to say they went away and did not purchase the property. They are probably telling the story to their friends now about those crazy Californians with their backwards ways, and Viciuos Banana Slugs!
Nobody believes it. So a slug is found and presented to the party.
And of course, "yours truly" volunteers to try the indian technique.
I touched the slug to my lips and Lo and behold! My lips are numbed! No Joke, this actually works! It is similar in effect to the topical product Dentists use to numb an area before an injection is made(I think it's called hurricane). Nobody believed me until some other crazy did the same with the same result.
Banana Slugs, or rather their slime, make a good topical anastetic.(No Banana Slugs were harmed during this experiment)
Factoid: Banana Slugs LOVE Dog Food.
If you put kibble out for them, they mob it.
You can actually hear them munching on the stuff.
Of course I have probably angered the animal rights people at having aided in a Banana Slugs deviant desire for Dog kibble... I might have spawned a new generation of slugs...
Just imagine.. Hordes of man habituated Banana slugs knocking down front doors and mauling pet dogs to get at their Kibbles and Bits!
Then there is the sale of the horse ranch.
The previous owner had a singular sense of humor.
While on a tour of the 25 acre property with the real estate agent and two prospective buyers they happened upon a Banana Slug in the middle of the horse trail.
The Owner shouted, "Look Out! Don't get near it!"
The buyers(east coast folks) jumped back. One of the buyers timidly asked, "Is there an issue here?"
To which the owner replied," No, but it might chase you down and bite you!"
The real estate agent rolled her eyes and stepped over the slug.
The buyers CAREFULLY stepped around the slug as if it were a rattlesnake...
The owner just smiled, very much satisfied with himself!
Those same clients came up to my house on the ranch and asked what the big metal tank was for. I told them it was to hold water for the house.
They truly had no idea what I was talking about even after I explained in detail how the water was pumped up from the ground, into the tank, and then pressurized through a line to the house. I still don't think the guy really believed me.
I am absolutely certain they did no get that the only way to heat the house was the wood burning stove.. which does not chop wood for itself!
Needless to say they went away and did not purchase the property. They are probably telling the story to their friends now about those crazy Californians with their backwards ways, and Viciuos Banana Slugs!