To think a slug couldnt do this?

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Last night about 2am I went downstairs to get a glass of water, huge orange slug in the corner of the kitchen floor. Out of tired panic and disgust I just put a large glass over it so it could be dealt with in the morning (in the morning by DH).

This morning I came downstairs to find the glass still upside down where I left it but with no slug under, DH claims to not of even noticed the glass and swears he didnt get rid of the slug (which I believe because hes a shit liar and although he regularly plays stupid little pratical jokes he would be laughing by now)

Surely it isnt possible that even this monster of a slug managed to lift the glass enough to escape and didnt even knock the glass over?

And now also I still have a slug loose in my kitchen? How do we get rid of it? and is it likely we have more than 1!?

I used to live in a house that had slug invasions at night in my bedroom. I would wake up in the morning with slugs on the wall behind my bed.

I hate the bloody fuckers. What do you want with me??! Why are you in here???!! Is what I used to yell at them.

Now I feel like I have bugs crawling on me

Yeah I get them in my kitchen sometimes. No idea how the heck they come in but they must be squeezing through a tiny gap somewhere.

I actually like slugs though (not in my kitchen, but in general.) They can't help being slimy

I am still having counselling for the sandwich toaster trauma. I cannot bear them

I had a couple of them in my old utility room. I have no idea how they got in unless there was a small crack between the back door and it’s frame?

I think they could smell the cat food

They used to get in my kitchen via the gap between the wall and sink waste pipes. And along the main water in pipe that came up from the ground.

The house is an old Victorian terrace over soil - only six inches below the downstairs floorboards is damp ground (jerrybuilding cheap houses isn’t a modern phenomenon). My central heating pipes are down there - even though they are insulated they give out enough heat to dry it out, so the worse slug time for me is damp spring and autumn days when it isn’t warm enough to put the heating on. I sometimes say “fuck it” and put the heating on anyway just to fry the little bastards.

We have at least one that crawls around the bottom step of our stairs, it leaves a trail but we never actually see it - ghost slug? Plenty of salt around the edge of the stair carpet ... Others occasionally appear via our understairs cupboard but, if I open the cupboard during the daytime to search them out or the hole(s) they are using, again I find nothing - teleporting slugs?

I had a problem in an old house too. The little buggers came up the plug hole, so make sure you put the plug in at night!
We also used to sprinkle all round the sink with salt and after a few days they went away!

I was sleeping downstairs as my bedroom was too hot, woke up as my arm felt sore and brushed my hand against it, only to find a slug had crawled along my pillow and was hanging out on my arm not envy! To this day I swear it bit me as the hand I swiped it off with had a sore round patch where it had touched!

Disappearing slugs? Is your name Will Byers and are you from Hawkins? This is Strange....r Things [Haha]

We have slugs that crawl up out wall by the front door every night!!! If we come home late I always worry they'll drop on me if I take to long to open the front door!!

Hope you find your slug soon and salt the slippery bastard!!!

In our old (and very grotty) previous house slugs used to squeeze in through tiny gaps in the walls. I saw one squeeze in from behind the skirting board once.

Only ever at night though, until we had kids and were up at night, we didn't see them, just the mysterious trails in the morning.

Eurgh yes they can squeeze through the smallest gaps it’s disgusting.

We have had slug issues here for a while. 1930s house. Last owner liked the garden a with a lot of foliage and there were so many slugs and snails and they’d find their way into the kitchen and dining room.
We have cut down the overgrown garden, sealed a lot of gaps and they are slowly going away.
Do dogs deter slugs? Thinking about it I haven’t seen a slug since we got the dog...

Oh and I bet the slug isn’t in your kitchen anymore. It will have gone back out through the hole it came in. Apparently they can follow their own trails to get back home.

The back of our house is a small burn(stream) and we forever have slugs in our kitchen. The weirdest ones have been a few times there has been slug goo on the middle of the kitchen floor no trail to or away and no sign of a slug... apparently they float too

I’m overly worried about your glass. No amount of cleaning it will ever make it useable again.

Fuckoffee

Oh dont worry! Glass has been disposed of.

I live in an old house - I’ve got copper tape around the edge of doors, but the buggers still get in. More than once I’ve stepped on a slug when I’ve come down stairs in the dark.

But, yes...slugs are horrible and strong and sneaky and possibly have POWERS and they can’t be trusted and your slug almost certainly moved the glass.

In my last few houses (typical Victorian mid terraces) we've had them in the kitchen and round the back door, even coming through a gap in the skirting board.

I just fill the holes with salt where I can and if I find one in the evening/morning I tip salt on it and wait for it to dry out and hoover the bastards later.

We had them in the previous house. Not the same as the cockroach house, thankfully, but still deeply unpleasant.

I suspect they are coming in a hole next to my back door

Please fill the hole!

As for using slug pellets, I do appreciate you wanting to get rid, but a poisoned slug that makes it back outside could be eaten by a bird or a hedgehog with obviously fatal consequences for them

We once left a spider under a glass overnight and came back to find the glass slightly tipped up (held in place by side of coffee table). DH (terrified of spiders) thought I'd staged it to wind him up!

obscured are you quoting me? I don't use slug pellets just salt.

Dh found one in the kettle as well.

My husband says if it was a big one, it would have the strength to lift the glass, stretch flatter and slide under the rim, without knocking the glass over.

I can believe it slithered under the glass. I once caught one flat as a pancake making its way under a skirting board. Bleugh.

Never underestimate a slug.

People say they don't have brains, but they're clearly not daft. My DS once left a plate with raisins on it on our living room rug. Came downstairs in the morning and there was a slug slime path from the skirting to the plate, then all round the plate, and back again. I picked it all up and hoovered the rug.

Next morning, there was a slug trail to the exact same spot on the rug, and circles and circles round and round, where a slug had clearly been searching for the raisins.

See? Not stupid.

Chirpy it's just that spiders don't bother me at all. I can be sitting watching TV and notice a spider on the wall and I could just ignore it. One night I was packing to move house and there was a slug on the carpet (this was the house AFTER the slug infested house!) and I started to panic how I was going to get it out. I went as far as going out the front to see if there were any passers-by that could help me thankfully there wasn't what an idiot I was being. In the end I used a flattened cardboard box to scoop it up and threw the box outside. Perhaps 100 spiders was an exaggeration but I'd definitely take a handful of them crawling over me than a slug any day of the week