To Think Slugs Can Teleport?

[OrangeBagel]

Woke up this morning to find a slug on the kitchen window sill. I’ve removed it but how did it get in? There’s no obvious trail behind it, it wasn’t there last night, never had this issue before and there’s no obvious way in. Am I being unreasonable to think slugs can teleport into houses?

They are definitely creatures of evil sorcery so it’s perfectly possible.

I think you’re onto something!

Either that, or the sneaky spy slug smuggled itself in on a lettuce or shoe.

Gotta watch those slugs.

They really can squeeze through the tiniest tiniest gaps. I witnessed them doing it in my old house as I couldn’t work out how they were getting in. Literally squeezed themselves thin like a piece of paper!!

My worst nightmare was a couple of years ago came downstairs during the night to the kitchen and there was 3 on my kitchen floor 🤢 they had been getting in the a tiny whole next to my outside tap

We had one that lived in our kitchen sink overflow when we moved into our new house. Had to coax him out with beer and relocate him (they are territorial so need to move a long way - the first time I chucked him in the garden and he came back the next night). We also had a few that would come in to party under the kitchen door.

Ultimately stopped them by leaving the kitchen light on at night for a couple of weeks. They are habit forming and don't like light so just had to change their habit.

Yes, they can.

Well of course he came back - you gave him free beer!

Pubs would be jam-packed with returning revellers if they did that.

Osmosis, but in the slug world its called oozemosis. Pesky critters!

I found one in the downstairs loo the other week! Baffled me tbh! I wondered if the cat brought it in

They teleport, get reincarnated and clone themselves and all their pals with alarming regularity, I'm afraid.

Glad my suspicions have been confirmed. Little blighters!

I had a nightmare with them last year. Fortunately we were ripping out the old kitchen and when we did found a gap in the wall by the outside waste pipe. I went total overkill with the gorilla filler but they haven’t returned.

what made it worse was DH had a habit of leaving the dishwasher door slightly open and they would go in. After threatening to dismember him he finally got the message. Ugh.

Of course they teleport!

If you had put your ear up close to that slug as you 'slug-handled' it out, you would have heard a tiny, distressed voice screaming 'Beam me up, Sluggy'.

We get them with alarming regularity in our house. I'm a gardener so view slugs as something that wants to eat the plants I've spent thousands of pounds on, but the ones that tend to come into houses are actually cellar slugs, which don't eat plants.

I've tried to make my peace with it but to be honest I still find them utterly repellent and hate coming down in the morning to be confronted with silvery slug trails over the living room carpet (although TBF when dried it does brush off very easily and leaves no trace, could be worse) or in the cat's kibble bowl. Our house is full of shoddy workmanship that have left gaps everywhere so hopefully once refurbished it will be a thing of the past 🙏

They used to come through the plug hole in the kitchen in our old house. I always leave the plug in at night now.

Slugs are evil, sometimes they slyly attach themselves to shoes so they can enter your house and wreak havoc while you sleep 😳

Omg at the dishwasher thing!!! That’s grim
@DeusInAbsentia

Never were so many pans of boiling water thrown coupled with hot washes and cups of bleach.
I insisted on a new dishwasher when the kitchen was done 😂

Yes they do. Absolutely.

I have observed one lowering itself (using its sticky stuff) from a hanging basket and then letting go in order to drop into my cabbages beneath.

It was like something out of mission impossible.

So yes. With that level of skill, teleporting is definitely a possibility.

I get little ones hitching a ride on the dogs sometimes.

Slugs are related to the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. When observed, they are slow and ponderous, but unobserved slugs can move at lighting speed.

Absolutely this!

My old long hair cat used to be slug public transport, it was revolting! They'd all cling to his underfluffs to enter the house. If it was damp outside I'd either have to frisk him as soon as he can through the cat flap, or spend the next few days finding slugs everywhere.

Our current garden has an insane population of slow worms, so my plants are safe from the slugs. I do feel smug by proxy, lovely worms!