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Salting Mr slug on my kitchen floor

41 replies

Huk1 · 04/08/2018 00:20

So I've just been in the kitchen and there is 3 inch slug on my floor. Now if it's ok to read everyone salting and bleaching maggots in wheelie bins does that make it ok to salt Mr slug? Or is that sadist? If it's sadist then why is ok for one species but not other?

OP posts:
meerkatinmyUggboots · 04/08/2018 01:06

Slugs are harmless (unless you are a lettuce leaf). I once tried to kill the slugs that were eating my mum's tomato plants when I was house sitting for her by pouring salt on them. I really regret it. It was anasty way to die.
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Best way to kill slugs??? Pour some beer into a shallow bowl or tray. Leave it where the slugs are. They will try to drink the beer (slugs love that) and will become drunk and fall in. A lovely way to die- drunk and happy

girlalmighty · 04/08/2018 01:06

Or maybe the ops blown up along with the slug

meerkatinmyUggboots · 04/08/2018 01:06

wish I were a slug

meerkatinmyUggboots · 04/08/2018 01:07

girlalmighty Shock

firehousedog1 · 04/08/2018 01:10

She's probably crouched down on all fours on a pillow with a magnifying glass whilst eating popcorn watching the slug sliver in salt Hmm

smashyourglasses · 04/08/2018 01:11

Get the salt out.

frogface69 · 04/08/2018 01:20

It was a goady post anyway. Or maybe trying to be funny.
I have got to stop rising to all this.

meerkatinmyUggboots · 04/08/2018 01:28

it was a goady post anyway

Why am I always the last person to spot the trolls?

The beer thing I mentioned does work though. Lots of happy slugs gone to heaven, full of booze.

QueenDoris · 04/08/2018 02:11

Can he it and stick in a bucket. When you have a decent few deep fry and serve with mayo. Lovely.

yellowpaper · 04/08/2018 02:16

The salt will cause the thing (I can’t even say the name) to sizzle away into nothingness except for a pile of thing remains. The scorch marks from the salt burns will remain on your laminate forever as a reminder of the purge.

LikeJellyTots88 · 04/08/2018 02:51

I threw a slug over the fence last week - he was already in the dustpan I'd accidentally left outside (because I'd used it to clear up leaves and decided that was its new job so didn't warrant coming back inside) so I just lobbed it over the fence into the industrial estate next door, does that make me a sadist? I also boiled and bleach maggots from the green bin in the same week - they are all disgusting slimey buggers just get rid however you do see fit.

Monty27 · 04/08/2018 03:00

Ah. Just say a wee prayer and salt the slimey ugly git 😂

LupiPie · 04/08/2018 09:27

Sorry but I don't get all these posters saying pop it outside Confused

It eats cabbage plants etc

SarahHans · 04/08/2018 09:29

I would salt him. I'm massively phobic and could deal with a dead one a bit easier.

I salt the base of my dishwasher as they always seem to come out from under there.

daisyinatree · 04/08/2018 14:04

@dottierichardson

OP as with some other posters you will find there are a considerable number of people who think it equally cruel to boil lobsters. But if you enjoy being vicious then fine salt the slug, a lot of people seem to enjoy cruelty to living things so you'll find plenty to side with you, the fact that many will also find such actions disgusting is clearly not a problem for you or you wouldn't have made such a deliberately obtuse response.

This. You have to some kind of sick twisted individual to think it's ok to chuck salt on slugs.

Vile. Hmm

onanothertrain · 04/08/2018 14:08

FFS just lift it and put it outside

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