This is bad and minging and terrible - there are SLUGS in my kitchen!!!

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I want to die just thinking about it. They come in at night and walk on everything. I think when we had the kitchen redone there's a gap in the flooring around the cupboards, so they might be getting in that way - but they also get into the utility room and there's no gaps there, I don't think. Unless they just get in through the cat flap.

Anyway, whatever, point is I fecking hate the disgusting things and I can't bear them walking all over the place at night. How on earth do you get rid of them? Pest control? Can't really do pellets as cats and kids all over the place. I need them gone though before I freak out, please help!

just get a pet toad

Oh my goodness, I am so glad to hear other people have this problem! It was my shame for years!

Thankfully we are (touch wood) slug free now but when we frst moved here (old rambling cottage, over grown gardens etc etc) we would wake to slug trails in the morning. whenever I woke in the night I would HAVE to go downstairs to see if I could catch the culprits and my god what HUGE ugly slithering Jabbaesque beats they were! God they were vile. I had nightmares about them.

In the end we had the whole of the ground floor relaid with wood flooring as the previous wood floor had lots of gaps and the kitchen had stone tiles laid. I also put slug poison by all the air brick things around the house and around the whole perimeter of the house.

I alo noticed that the house slugs were very light in colour as opposed to their garden counterparts and they were HUGE. Ergh!

Once I left my clothes horse hung with damp clothes in the kitchen- next morning all the clothes were covered in 'slug leave' I had to stick them all back in the wash....

One day as I emptied my teapot out after we had a cup of tea, into the sink fell a stewed slug.....yep slug juice tea we had drunk.

I used to leave trails of salt.....

mine are a kind of mottled green

Rosylily - slug tea!! I've got really paranoid about checking dishwasher/fridge etc since starting this thread...

I've heard slugs get a shock from copper too.

Try putting some copper coins down where you think they are getting in, they might not attempt to slither (shiver) over them

They are attracted to beer so put some small bowls down with a bit of beer in them, they will crawl in and drown in their own drunken mess. You can then throw them out. It works on my veg plot - it might help reduce the numbers turning up in Dishwashers

Oh is that bad and minging?

We have them everywhere at night. Just thought it was due to living in an old house. I sweep/hoover up slug trails every day.

Orm - they can do what they like outside my house, but when they come in my kitchen and walk on my kid's highchair tray and on our plates, then it's war!

But you see I have to extend some mercy to them in my house as I show them none in my garden

i get them sometimes but i think either my dog or cat has started eating them [vomit emoticon]!!!! i dont see much evidence of them any more

used to get them in the kitchen and bottom of stairs! nothing seems to get rid of them just pick em up with some tissue and chuck em out when you catch them.

thankfully mine seemed to stay on the floor although i did find one hiding under the dish drainer! yuck yuck yuck!!!

Yes mine stay at ground level. Thankfully.

Right. I think we're going to concrete over the gaps. And try to make it sort of blend in. There's no way we can repair the floor with more tiles and we can't afford to have the whole floor redone, so have to see if we can seal 'em in that way.

Failing that I'm moving.

Yep, had the same - grim when you tread on one isn't it? Blocking gaps helps. Also, I use SAS slug repellant spray (which is really good, but you do have to reapply if it rains). I have also taught my 2 year old to pick up any snails and slugs and place them kindly in their spacially designed swimming pool (aka bucket of salty walter - because they love swimming! Also try spraying ralgex/deep heat where you think they might be getting in. I can tell you are smiling at the pain idea! Declare an all out war, its the only right and decent way!

We used to get them in the dining room, but my husband sealed up the gaps in the wooden floor and i spray SAS around the air brick that leads to that room and I have only seen evidence of one in a year.

We get them in the kitchen and they breed! I have seen baby ones. I hate coming down in the night if DS wants milk, because they are all there slithering around my kitchen- horrible bastard things. What I do is pick them up with a baby wipe (they scream ) and throw them in the next doors garden. I have started putting them, wipe and all into a sandwich bag and throwing them in the bin. Its difficult to be arsed doing that whilst bleary eyed at 3am. You can buy a beer thing from Betterware etc which you fill with beer and they crawl into and DIE . My ones are also greeny and mottled.

I've just found one in the plug hole in the kitchen sink - it appears to have turned to jelly.

urrrgh at jelly

we haven't had them for a while but they are rank. There are so many holes in this house it's impossible to block them all up. Beer never worked for me, they ignored it.

pmsl at barcodes mum, i can't wait until tonight i have never seen a slug faint

"Homemade traps such as inverted grapefruit halves, pots or wooden boards can be placed close to where the slugs and snails are harbouring. Check early each morning or they will become habitat instead! Beer, wine or any yeast product mixed with water, is an attractant; place it in a bowl, with the rim 1 or 2 cm above the ground, to drown them. Research has found sugar water (5% sugar solution) to be a highly effective slug attractant. Empty the traps every day."

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