To be pissed off I am being outwitted by a slug/snail?

[GingerWrath]

We have lived in this house for three years. Most mornings I have come down to a lovely silvery trail in my kitchen that has sometimes ventured onto the hall carpet. This morning it was all over my oven mitt and up DD's brand new winter coat, hanging in the hallway!

I have searched high and low for this little blighter, pulled appliances out and I CAN'T BLOODY FIND IT. It's driving me doolally!

AIBU?

I have had a slug problem for about 6 months. Like the OP I was worried they were out smarting me.
When my best friend and I arrived home at 3am from a drunken night out my husband was woken by me shouting triumphantly 'AH HA YOU LITTLE BASTARDS I HAVE FOUND YOU AND I WILL KILL YOU ALL' when we found loads of them sliming around all over the kitchen.
I got my friend to pick them all up with our BBQ prong things. She smelt very strongly of tequila, strong enough for that to kill them first so they didn't suffer.

If it's a slug you could always take it to the Monty Python Pet Shop and exchange it for a dead Norwegian Blue!

limited if we could see the litte beggar, we'd happily shoot it. Mind you, then we'd need to get a gun. Which would perhaps be a bit of an extreme reaction, but the grief he's caused us these last few weeks. I'd happily bomb the blighter, regardless of the damage it would do to the house!!!

Slug and snail barrier tape (adhesive copper tape discharges static electric to stop slugs and snails). SAS slug and snail repellant aerosol. Hope you are slug/snail free asap.

Ewwww. This thread is hilarious and revolting. Thankfully don't appear to have a problem with slugs/rodents in our house (tons of slugs in the garden but they've not slithered inside yet), though we do have moths.

huffy - at previous house a nest of rats moved into the compost heap. Then buried up through the cloakroom floor and into the house. We got rat poison and they died off, one by one. Unfortuately one decided to perish within the skirting board - totally inaccessible to get the corpse out and we had to seal the room where its decomposing body was - the smell was vile. But, I learned, that a decomposing, medium size rat, stops smelling in approximately 6-8 weeks. If that's any help...

GingerWrath - just stay away from any slugs that look like <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=slugs+movie&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1214&bih=806&tbm=isch&tbnid=nT17CDV2tnJkMM:&imgrefurl=www.horrordvds.com/viewarticle.php%3Farticleid%3D38&docid=3Nl1r_07s63m4M&w=720&h=404&ei=3IqETr6gE82gtweL-5VQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=678&vpy=165&dur=1648&hovh=168&hovw=300&tx=197&ty=97&page=1&tbnh=104&tbnw=185&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this

I won't be sleeping tonight. TY, Kenobi

freckled 6 - 8 weeks???? That's nice! Should be clear before Christmas then! Just! Am stocking up on air fresheners as we speak. I'm terrified at the thought of them coming through the floor though.

How long did it take between the poison going down and the decomp smell coming through?? Is that 6-8 weeks for the whole process or 6-8 weeks just from the scratching stopping to the smell starting?

We're due to get a new puppy this next couple of weeks. Hope it doesn't freak out with the ratty smell in the house! Still, it would have to get used to dd's trumps, I guess!

Think it was 6-8 weeks from first smelling the smell of rotting rat to it finally going. So about 10 weeks or so from poison going down (and we managed to hit a few over the head with a shovel in the garden) to there being no more rats.

Aww, I do think some of you are being a bit unkind to the slug population. They don't mean us any harm.

We have one of these in our living room. It is disgusting. It has slimed all over my essays, stray socks and anything else I have been too lazy to remove from the floor at bedtime. It even has been up the walls, and I came downstairs last week to find it had been up our velvet curtains. They have a 10ft drop!

Thanks Freckled. Just waiting now for the smell to kick in :(

startail I would love slow worms in my house and garden They were probably hunting the slugs.

EricNorthMansMistress Rock salt, eh? Recession yet to bite in your house

huffy have you tried sticky mats? The rat is firmly glued to it and can be removed either dead from shock, which is sad but inevitable in humankind's battle against rodents, or bashed on the head while a sticking target (same as above).

kenobi that is about as frightening as a nail clipper. It would make a horrible mess in your pocket, though.

fatlazymummy they may not mean me any harm but they have murderous intent towards my glorious hostas and for that they and their kind must die. The slugs and I respect each other in this dance of death. It's a bit Hemingwayesque.

Thanks for the advice limited. We just went for the poison option (after we'd tried the capture traps and the break back traps). We were told that rats were clever feckers and wouldn't go for any traps/mat type things. We tried sonic as well, but apparently that's as much good as a chocolate fireguard!

Looking forward to the smell coming through now!!!

We got one! (or rather DH did). He came downstairs this am to see the little slimey get 'going a at a rate of knots' along the skirting. It is now languising in the depths of the green bin.

Hobgoblin in the dish was untouched , Hobgoblin in the bottle, supped rather gratefully in the hot weather, by DH .

Bring on the next battle!