"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Mark" wrote in message
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'Mike' wrote:

A snail got itself stuck in the spout of the watering can. Its natural
instinct was to head for the light 'at the end of the spout', but of
course the spout got narrower and it got stuck so we had to poke it out.

'Our' reaction would be to reverse, but 'can' snails reverse? Anybody
see
one do it?


only the male ones are any good at reversing


They go backwards quite quickly if you bash the bottom of the watering can
on the ground :-)

You should be bashing the watering can on them not on the ground!

Alan



Steve