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!?

Salt = no slug

I had one when getting new patio doors fitted 🤮 that got the salt treatment! It was huge! And the gap it got in was tiny. An invisible gap ( promptly filled the next day by CR Smith ) they are not of this world!

We get tons of the critters round our way - old houses and a high water table don't help.

My ds is petrified of them - ever since one of the little blighters was crawling upside down on the underside of the table a la Mission Impossible and dropped into his lap during breakfast. Oh the screams ... 😱

I keep a light on downstairs overnight now. If it just deters one of them I'm winning ...

Apparently, back in the day, there used to be awful slug problems in those big old town houses that were built with basement kitchens - you know the ones, you can see down the grilles from the street. So what they'd do, rather than waste good salt, they'd ship in a hedgehog from the nearest rural hedgerow. Hedgehog would dwell happily in the kitchen, sleeping under the range during the day, munching the slugs to death at night.

You need a hedgehog OP

Frogs work too. I’m not especially keen on killing things so I collected all our slugs and snails in a bucket and re-homed them on the riverbank 200 odd yards away.

Two days later the front of our cottage was like a slug and snail motorway with huge lines of all the feckers “coming home”. It was some sight. Bastards.

So I made a very small pond and we collected tadpoles for it. Now I have nice but slimy frogs but no significant population of sluggy snaily wankers eating all my plants.

DD3 informed DM and i that she'd found a dried up slug in her craft basket and licked it to see what it tasted like but it was horrid so she threw it out the back door for the birds not envy.

My brother was nudged awake by his wife in the middle of the night once, she heard a noise downstairs. He came slowly down the stairs thinking it was probably nothing, then he heard it again. He's shitting himself at this point thinking someone is in the house.

Walked cautiously into the kitchen and saw....a slug on the floor next to the motion-detection bin which was lifting up and down! Slugs are evil!

Crocusqueen - where do I get a hedgehog??? I need one (it could also replace the other prick in the house....)
Itsthisonething - that made me spit my peanut lion bar across my work computer! I'm now getting curious (and slightly disgusted) glances from co-workers

I have a serious phobia of slugs. This would be my worst nightmare.

Your only option is to burn the house to the ground and claim on the insurance. Sorry.

HTH

I can never find how they get in or out but I find the trails so I believe it could.

I hate slugs the thought of them makes me bilious.

Slugs can do anything.
What a truly terrifying thought! Thanks for that bridgetreilly.

I had slugs.

I had to have the entire ground floor dug out, a leaking water main (entering via kitchen) replaced, a new damp proof membrane, a new damp course, new windows and doors and the external walls re-pointed and rendered.

Massive cost and added about six months to my house refurbishment.

But no slugs now.

Airbricks. That is how they get in. And vent grilles.

These vent the cavities underneath timber floors. In kitchens, your kitchen flooring may well extend only to the edge of your units. Beneath the units it may just be boards with gaps cut for pipes etc. Slugs come in thru the airbricks, up under the units and bingo - slug infestation.

In some old houses where the kitchen floor is solid there are airbricks above floor level. This was to help ventilate rooms where there were old-fashioned coal ranges/boilers. These are even better for slug access. In the Northern city I went to uni, student houses were always tatty Victorian semis, always had these above-floor airbricks behind kitchen units, and always - but always - had 1000 slugs that would come in at night and make whoopee on the surfaces.

This thread is terrifying. I'm another who would rather 100 spiders than one slug. I'm glad I'm not reading this at night (not envy)

We have a resident slug. I hate them. We live in an old terrace and I'm sure the air brick is the issue. Boak. Have just inspected the kettle before making coffee.

yes it can.
no they don't always leave trails

disgusting things.

We had slugs in our kitchen growing up. My mother couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. Until on day. She was making something that needed flour so she went into one of the low down cupboards to get the bag of flour out. Inside it she found several HUGE slugs. However they had now turned white as they must have been eating the flour. Huge slimy floury ghost slugs 🤮

Many years ago, when DH and I were young and head over heels, he was walking me home after our shift at the local somerfield (how retro) and we stopped outside mine for a cheeky snog.

Mid kiss I feel something strange on my thigh, and a little shake of my leg produces a fat slug from inside my trousers.

I still shiver when I think of this.

Wait, ghost slugs, I'm done.

Can you block air bricks?

I too would rather have spiders than slugs

We’ve put plastic mesh thingys over our air bricks to stop slugs and rodents getting in. I think they have helped, but not completely got rid of the problem.

Nothing but sympathy OP, they are hideous. Reading this made me shudder so much, I bloody hate slugs. DH and I used to live in a ground floor flat with terrible damp, and the skirting boards didn't quite reach the floor. We stuck brown tape around the bottom of the back door and stuffed newspaper under the skirting boards, but the fuckers still crawled in. I used to put ALL the lights on before going in the kitchen/bathroom, but once there was a revolting grey one climbing up the wall near the string for the bathroom light, and I nearly touched it. I've never screamed so hard in my life, DH thought I was being murdered!

DD once drew me a picture of one at preschool to help me, like some sort of bizarre toddler therapy...

That is freaky.. I would love to know how it did it. YABU to leave it to DH to sort though!
My mum has a mystery snail/slug in her garage.. been leaving trails every day for years but she has never seen it.

Possibly even worse than the one in the bathroom right next to the light pull (I nearly TOUCHED it!), was the time I woke up early, looked up at the ceiling and saw a slug right above my head.

I have never in my life got out of bed so fast. Again, I think DH thought there was a fire from the way I reacted, but he did see my point when I told him to look up. Ugh.

It was orange, you say?

Well that explains everything. It's clearly been exposed to high levels radiation at an experimental science/weapons facility, and is now a super slug.

It's probably eaten your entire garden by now.