Anyone else got SLUGS invading their house?....

[NormaStanleyFletcher]

at night? They are never there during the day, but the trails are there in the morning. LOTS of trails.

How do they get in and how do I deter them?(I can't pin down exactly where they are coming in, and don't want to cover the whole of my room in salt!)

They are evil and cunning, and they parachute in by night. Just look, if you have slugs in the house, the trails start and end IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR. How do they get there? Do they appear, wiggle about a bit, then dematerialise? Having said that, I did catch a couple in my previous abode, and they didn't dematerialise. The first one, I chased out of the kitchen with a spoon cos I couldn't bear to touch it, even with a utensil. I just guided it out; it took half an hour and I was late for work. The second one, I realised that it was bloody stupid to chase a slug across a kitchen, so I got drunk first, which gave me the courage to pick it up in a paper towel. Fortunately I'd already been to work that day.

No - not parachutes - they get to scotty snotty slimy to beam them in from the star ship unctious

Dontcallmebaby - I now have visions of the little buggers appearing in a mini-tardis, leaving their little slimy messages and then disappearing into hyper-space again.

Lol at herding slugs though. I admire your patience.

Mini tardis - doctor goo

Lol @ Dr goo

Don't know why I keep reading this thread, it is giving me the shudders.

The thing is I can cope with slugs, when I find them in my garden I can pick them up with my bare hands and throw them over my hedge

It is the fact they are skulking around and leaving trails on things in my house that is really pissing me off

We had them in our last house and the feckers ate the fringe on my v. expensive wool rug from Pakistan. We moved house - worked a treat!

I can't move!

Thanks for the tip though

We have them here too - I have actually witnessed one coming up through the tiniest crack in the floor board - it went all long and thin to squeeze through the gap. I swept salt into all of the floor board gaps but it didn't work. Makes me feel quite sick but I don't think we'll ever get on top of it as DH says that as our house is oldish (1920's) the downstairs level is built directly onto the bare earth and so the slugs den.

My sis had the same problem when her dd was little - one morning she found dd -aged about 2, in the kitchen chewing on something - when she asked her what it was she said 'just a raisin mummy' - my sister got her to spit it out and found the characteristic orange bottom, black top, it was a partially chewed dessicated slug..

don't you get professional exterminators for slugs? rentokil and the like?

slugs eating a carpet fringe - I just couldn't bear it

Ah pointydog, you think you couldn't bear it, but once you get used to them, you sort of hardly notice. Part of the furniture almost...

yes, replacing the furniture really, aren't they

A few months ago, I opened the butter dish to smother my morning toast and in there was a slug who lay dead from pure unadulterated gluttony.

I hate them hate them hate them.

I have also on many occasions had to hastily wipe a slug trail from DS's book bag as we approach school.

They are one of life's mysteries to me. Where do they come from? Why are they only in the kitchen? How do they know what time I get up?

I am so pleased it is not just my house/kitchen. Do other people live in older houses with cellars and the like?

no, seriously. can't you all get an exterminator in?

Yuk how did they get into the butter dish?

they were living in the butter dish since they were teeny babies

and you never ever knew

I'm sorry to not be sympathetic with your plight, but this thread is hilarious. Very amusing

I also think you are lightweights - come back to me when you are woman enough to say that you have had an infestation of rats in your cavity walls and loft!

We moved house to get away from slugs - and they have followed us! We had slug trails all over the ceiling.

oooh yes rats. rats are bad.

Sure are - they are bad arse feckers!

jeez. have you sought professional help? I REALLY think you should.

tinker, are the slugs living in you or something?

is this Dr Who?

Anyone had wood pigeons down the chimney the size of the Christmas turkey??