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@Oliver Schick
I've never understood why people find slugs and snails gross. Snails you can pick up by their shell without touching their body (they'll probably retract into the shell, anyway), and while slugs are a little harder to pick up, they're just slightly slimy and you wash your hands (after relocating them, for instance). Obviously, stepping on one by accident is terrible.
When we were kids, we used to have a path near our house that after rain was always full of snails (the really beautiful large ones, Helix pomatia, the Internet tells me) and we used to take them off the path so they wouldn't get stepped on. Needless to say, they were back pretty quickly (for snails). Sadly, they don't occur near that path any more--there's a different, smaller kind of snail now. No idea if they out-competed the large ones.