Dogs I don't have a problem with and we've only had one fox visit for a while, but slugs and snails, we get them! I wouldn't have expected it with such a hot dry climate, but as soon as we get the cooler weather and rains, they're in there! When we first bought the house, the lawn at night would be smothered in snails when it rained. I would be treading on them, RTB was putting them in buckets then emptying them into the bin (not sure why, other than he can't abide the crunch). Eventually it got them to numbers our plants could survive.

Then the slugs... let's just say that they can hold their beer here. I've never been able to get them to manageable levels. We get this nighttime rotation of bugs that eat the veggies. Winter is slugs, spring is earwigs, summer is weevils. I correct the latter two for chickens and they stop for a bit, until the following year when it starts again. The slugs I go out with a pair of snips on...