Mr Toad

was not very happy to have his compost bin home turned over today.  My second bin contained a family of rats and they had a splendid nest of dried leaves and a cache of about 30 snails in an adjacent hole in the compost.  Some shells had been cracked and emptied - I had no idea rats ate snails and if they do should they not be encouraged to hang around the garden in the same way as we'd like a hedgehog to visit?  Mr Toad was carrying a tiny snail on his back which was cunningly placed to avoid being eaten!

“If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry. ”
― Dave Barry