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!?

We havnt seen anything for the last two nights and although when its me checking i'm relieved that means theres still a slug hiding somewhere in my kitchen! Or even worse its escaped somewhere in the rest of the house.

This morning I came downstairs to find the glass still upside down where I left it but with no slug under

I had the same thing back in the Summer. Admittedly outside, but I put an old heavy rimmed bowl over a monster slug on my porch tiles. It was gone in the morning.

They really are amazing (and horrific) things. I have a huge outside candle lantern - stainless steel and glass and they slither their way up the shiny, straight, glassy vertical surfaces, unbelievable to watch them sliding up at right angles.

I too loathe them - I've had so many plants destroyed by them and have tried all the various methods to get rid, to no avail. I even resorted to going out at night with a torch and a pair of tongs and picking the fuckers out of my plants one by one and hurling them over the fence into the woods, all the time cursing and muttering like some demented crone!

However I do feel a bit sorry for them. To be such a loathsome creature with no useful purpose other than to slither about - they literally have nothing going for them. Snails at least can look cute with their shells, spiders can spin webs and run fast, bees buzz around and make honey, but slugs just slither along leaving a trail of snot behind them and eating everything in their path.

Maybe it was a slug ghost?

There's a patch of grass at my DC's school which is a giant-slug playground when it's wet. We saw one that was the size and shape of a small hedgehog once. Goodness knows how long it was stretched out.

I think behind our kitchen plinths we are all infested with the things

Another vote for sleep waking-since when are slugs orange?

They have an orange edge on them, always looks sore to me

Orange slugs

They're Spanish, apparently.

Loads of slugs are orange. All the ones I get in my garden (particularly those that slide across my kitchen window at night to get at the fat ball I've hung out for the birds).

Slugs are the thing that makes me shudder more than anything else in the world.

I’m sorry I haven’t read the whole thread, as I’m still screaming in my head at the thought of a cooked slug in a toaster! 😱 arrrrrgggghhhhhhhh