Örebro wildlife

I feel somewhat sheltered from living in Yellowknife. There are no really typical animals-insects-whatevers that live there. We have the animals that are uncommon to the vast majority.
Örebro on the other hand has everything that I shouldn't be enthralled with, but I am!

First specimen: Snakes.
See older post.... there are zero snakes in the NWT, yet balls of them here.

Second specimen: Slugs.
There are no slugs in Yellowknife. Or well, none that I have ever seen... Anyways, while raining and right after, the side walks are covered with slugs! They just sloowly move around. I think they are scavenging for other slugs that have been stepped on. Apparently some slugs eat their dead slug companions, they suck up the juices from them, and earthworms. I hardly notice as many earthworms as I do slugs, have they all been eaten by slugs? I remember when we would go to Brantford and there were always dead worms on the driveway at Nana and Papa's after it rained... but I have no recollection of slugs? They thoroughly intrigue us, and every encounter brings up new questions! Being the nerds knowledge seekers that we are, we go home and research them. Our latest quest informed us that slugs are asexual and lay eggs larger than themselves. (Slight exaggeration).

Third specimen: Snails.

I have had some experience with snails before. They lived in our fish tank and we used to collect them from Rat Lake as kids. Up until field school I had only ever seen them as water animals. When I lived in Newfoundland, they covered the fields, which was very unpleasant for myself to walk through. Every morning on my way to the site I had to plug my ears and run through the fields so to lessen the amounts of crack crunch crack that I heard as I crushed poor little snails. Slugs have no shell, I cant hear or feel them dying below my shoes. Snails hold less of my attention, girls at field school cooked up periwinkles for lunch, and I quite enjoy escargot. Mind you I didnt know that escargot were the same snails I see puttering around on the side walks. I thought they were water ones. I digress.
During our first few encounters with slugs here, there were no snails. I honestly thought they travelled hand in hand, but there were never any snails. Well, not until last weekend! The snails came out in full force, and it was Cailan's first time seeing a snail! She had slugs all over when she lived in BC, but I guess not snails.
Now we make quite the pair. Walking to the store or bus after it's rained is like going on a safari... We slowly walk to make sure we dont step on any, and every few feet we stop to examine them. We look like fools.

Fourth species: Hedgehogs
So, hedgehogs are wild here! They do not live in Canada, so I have an excuse for never running into one before.
Cailan had informed me when I first arrived that hedgehogs lived around here, but she had yet to see one. I just assumed that they lived in the forest, and I knew they were nocturnal from when Erin had pet one and it was so boring during the day. The nocturnal factor would lessen our probability of seeing any.
Anyways, on Saturday we were walking to the centrum with our friend Sophie and one ran across the side walk! Holy! I was so excited, hoping it would run and morph into a ball and roll across the street like in Alice in Wonderland when the queen is playing croquet! But it didnt. It just scurried into a fenced flower garden. Haha, needles to say, Cailan and I were thrilled! Sophie just thought we were idiots, and informed us there are tons that live in Brickebaken (our ghetto). I guess they are a lot more common in town than I believed. Picture someone in Yellowknife going ecstatic after seeing a squirrel... that's what we came off like here. THEN when we got home later that night there was one just hanging out next to the sandbox in front of our building! Eep! Obviously, we tried to follow it around but it outsmarted us in the dark. I kept wondering why they made Sonic roll everywhere if the two that we have seen never rolled. Is it like lemmings walking off cliffs? Disney and then Sega skewed my perception of hedgehogs and they dont really roll everywhere?

I wonder what other animals I'll encounter here, that my life in the North has eluded me from.