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?

*slugs

Yes, very lucky he was ok, big strapping sporty man now. That's so awful about the poor Australian lad. Really tragic.

I don’t have slug problem but reading the thread made up my morning.

If slugs like greenery so much that putting them into your green bin is their idea of heaven, why do they keep coming into the house? There's no greenery in my house!!

I hate the buggers. If they are on something I can lift, they get tossed back outside. But we do salt certain crevices - by the chest freezer, under one particular kitchen cupboard, and - weirdly - around the newel post at the bottom of the stairs. It seems to deter them. Fortunately I have never stood on one, but I have had to jump over the bottom stair to avoid one. Bleurgh.

In the house I put them in the bin and Chuck salt on them.

Put them in a pot of salt. They won't come back then!

Most of us like wildlife in the garden and beyond.

In the house, not so much.

I just take them outside 🤷🏻‍♀️ I quite like slugs, especially the big ones. I can't kill anything. I'm deathly afraid of wasps and daddy long legs but even those I catch and release.

Now wondering if any of the slug slingers are actually neighbours IRL and you're now in a never-ending game of slug tennis...

This thread is the best thing I've read in a long time!!!

Classics nomination from me!!

YABU - that's awful (and the same goes for the salt killers!). Just pop them outside - it won't take you more than a minute! Hedgehogs, birds etc eat them!!

I've done that before but I felt awful. It must be an awful death.

Yes the salt dissolves them. It’s like acid would be to us.

we thankfully do not get slugs in the house. Our kitchen is completely fitted with integral appliances and no crevices anywhere which was how I wanted it.

😂😂😂

Yes the salt dissolves them. It’s like acid would be to us.

Salt can't dissolve anything. It's more the opposite, it dehydrates them - which isn't any better from the POV of the slug, I'm sure.

Do you have a garden waste bin? All my slugs and snails go in there to hopefully be transported to a happy life on a big compost heap...