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Nope its not pavement or the sidewalk. Good try, thanks for playing.

Is it a flower pot? How many guesses are we allowed? lol!

Nope, you can continue to guess until its guessed, so as many times as you want to :)

Hint added now :)

A fish?

Nope it was the snails poor cousin the black slug.

Proof of the slug and Contest #4 is out now. I hope to see you there! :)