To flush slugs

[Romeoalpha]

Inspired by the spider in the bin thread. Conscience pricking me a bit.

I have (had) a problem with slugs in the kitchen at night. They get in somewhere behind the fitted units but I’m not sure exactly where / how.
I dropped them outside for a while but they eventually came back.

So I started to flush any I found down the toilet. The slug problem is now very much reduced. I know that to flush the slugs was not kind. But was I unreasonable?

We have a slug problem too, and I do the exact same thing - no guilt here! I did use to open the back door and chuck them out, but I was worried they would just come back in, and the number has massively decreased. Nothing worse than coming downstairs in the middle of the night to fetch calpol or whatever and finding your walls covered with slugs, or like a PP accidentally treading on one! 🤢

Eew how do they get in??😮

I wouldn’t put them in the toilet in case they crawl back out! Imagine just sitting there on the loo doing your business while a slug starts to slither up the porcelain 😣😬

I second the idea of getting pet hedgehogs to eat the slugs (also they are adorable) 😁

I have the exact same issue! They live under the kitchen units but i cant do a damn thing as its a rented flat and the landlord wont fix it.

I throw them in the bin and salt them, no regrets. They carry lungworm and i dont want my pets or me getting sick from them.

We had a problem with them coming in by the front door , kept on at DH to sort it out as I hated seeing their horrible slimy trails in the morning. I kept nagging he kept saying when he had time. One morning he put on one of his work boots which he kept by the door and there was a big fat juicy slug in there. No more slug problem as of that evening.

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Did you put the slug in his work boot @bellsbuss? Come on, 'fess up!

you need counselling ! Cruel

@BeserkGiraffe no but the speed with which he sorted it out I wish I had done

Urgh hate them. They eat rat and pigeon shit. Mates toddler son used to eat them if he found them in the garden, those horrible big yellow banana slugs. Gross. Death by drowning is fine by me op.

Some stupid people on this post !

Eating a slig can paralyse or kill you, that's really scary.

What do you do with them then, befriend them and set them a place at the table?

Or did a slug crawl onto your phone?

I love my garden and do a lot to protect my plants from the little fuckers humanely: copper wire mesh, Slugless etc. But if I find them in my garden then into the green bin they go. What do you suggest I do with them? I don't really want a collection of slugs as pets. And that's without them (thankfully) coming into my house, uuugh! Do you expect posters who have that problem to just "share their home" and let them slime everything? Grim.

If they 'eat rat and pigeon shit' surely that's a good thing? Gets rid of it. I have the ones that hide behind the kitchen kickboards and come out at night. Not many, thankfully. If I find them I put them out in the garden. I don't like having them in the house, but I won't torture them to death. Humans are so arrogant to think we're the only ones that matter in the food chain. Bees sting, but if they disappear so will we. Wasps feed on aphids, etc, that feed on crops, but let's get rid of them as well by killing them because they're bothering us. If we got rid of all the species on the planet that we have a hatred for we'd be long gone.

100% agree with this!!!

I did not know this, bran traps in the garden, coming up!!!!!

I second the idea of getting pet hedgehogs to eat the slugs (also they are adorable)

Apparently slugs aren't very good for hedgehogs, a food of last resort because of the lungworm someone has mentioned. I've not heard of this being an issue for birds though.

@BeserkGiraffe reread my previous post it applies to you !

I've just found one in the same way, I was slightly luckier as I had socks on and it went under my heel but 😫

Not really good if they are in your house and/ or eating the food you've grown.

All very well being self-righteous but if they were allowed to run riot with no control, are you happy eating a slug's seconds when you want to eat some vegetables?

They are not just disgusting they are poisonous so dangerous to have in a garden with small children who may eat them (as a PP described 🤮) and carry disease.

Do you think if the sizes were reversed a slug would have any concern for you?

Chickens can get lungworm from slugs too

I used to leave them on the bird food table, but the birds just ignored them.

Then I got into that habit of going around the garden after it had rained overnight and find all the slugs and snails, put them in a bag and then toss them into the bin.

The only ones I took pity on was the Roman snails, I used to toss them into the field over the road. Figured they had a better chance of survival there than surviving the snail and slug pellets I had around the veggies.

I have problems with slugs in my house to.
I flush them down the toilet, On a few occasions they have crawled back up into the toilet bowl a day or 2 later. I once found 3 looking up at me from the toilet and I'm sure they'd doubled in size. A squirt of bleach sorted the buggers out.

Cruel to the slug, or the DH whose boot it was in?

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Omg OP you've created a slugberg. Eventually it will force itself through a grating close to Paternoster Square and consume the whole of London.

And to think people worry about climate change. They have no idea that the real threat to humanity is slugmaggedon.