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Thanks for all the great advice on my new veg patch.  I decided on beds, and they seem to be doing really well despite having soil that sets like concrete as soon as the sun shines :-\  All our neighbours, French and English are fascinated by them and how well the crops are doing.  This seems to me like we are heading for a fall :P

We have rescued two lovely puppies from the 'bucket of water', but one of them has not quite got the hang of staying out of the patches.  I have noticed that something is eating certain plants, as the plot is in the garden I check it every day for slugs but only found one.  There are loads of ants but no other bugs.

Anyway back to the original question, if I put animal friendly slug pellets down, if a pup (8 weeks, young I know but no choice), would he be OK?

Cover them with whatever means is appropriate.

Personally I would ask a vet, and be sure and find out if it takes a little or a lot to hurt them.Puppies are in to everything  so I would be very very cautious,

I put slug pellets in an ice cream container with the lid on & a hole cut in the side. I then put them near whatever plants need protecting.

That's a brill idea grannyjanny.  ;D

I'm with Jeannine on this one, ask a vet.  Our 6 month old Lurcher x demolishes plastic plant pots at a rate of knots, when he's not attacking the legs of the kitchen table that is.

Great to hear veg patch is doing well.

had some success with beer traps, harmless unless you keep finishing off the bottles - I have two dogs -   I like the idea posted by grannyjanny, perhaps under a flat stone or similar, will definitely try it.

what about sticking a bamboo cane in each corner and then adding some twine to increase the height of the bed and thread in old cds/dvds? would that put the dogs off.

Hope there getting on with the ginnie pigs  ;)

Any chance of covering pelleted area with chicken wire or similar? Not only to keep dogs off but also to keep birds away from slug corpses.