SLUG INVASION - please help me before I have to leave the country

[hester]

Woke up this morning to find silvery trails all over my living room rug, and some sticky patches on the floor.

It's chuffin slugs, isn't it?

I've just moved from a city centre flat to the leafy suburbs, and am realising that with leaves come bugs. Ants, giant spiders, even fornicating dragonflies floating round my home today.

But the slugs are the worst. How do I get rid of them? Is there any alternative to those blue pellets?

I share slug woes.

Cat food. They adore cat food, and will travel through mountains of any toxic chemical you can think of to get at it. We have less slugs since moving the cat feeding area to the outside world.

We have soil under our house too. My mum [Gawd bless her] took up some floor boards int he corner where they came in, made a blue carpet of slug pellets, and that sorted them for 3 months.
They are coming back though, so I need to recarpet with the blue stuff! I also need to send dh out to attack the airbricks by the sound of it, I hadn't thought of that!

'd put no effort into plugging physical gaps. I've seen them get through the join between skirting board and wall. They are like shape shifters!

We have since found that the sluggy back wall was the nearest to a burst underwater pipe - now fixed. Looking forward to years of slug free living

Feeling a pang of guilt about potential dangers of a carpet of slug pellets to natures more cutesy creatures. But then what creature that lives under my floorboards do I care about

We too have a wildlife retreat in this house. Swifts in the roof, Wood Pidgeons in the chimney, and scampering in the roof. I choose to believe that is cute swift babies What exactly is infesting any rotton eggs or dead bird bodies I don't like to think about

I live in New York City and I found a slug in my SINK last night!!!! I was so grossed out. I have a garden apartment and the garden is infested with slugs - when it rains, if I leave the back door open (there's a grate that stays closed) there are always a couple of slugs that come slithering in...it's hideous! I tried leaving a line of pennies at the door - that didn't do much. I bought pellets but that didn't do anything. I've found a couple of dried up slugs under furniture here and there - clearly they made it past my blockade but didn't find the paradise they were seeking...! Occasionally I'll see slime marks on my dog's back - ick!!! She lies down outside and has on occasion carried one in. I finally left a huge barrier of salt - I didn't want to resort to salt because it seems so mean, but I'd had it - and that worked a bit, but looked pretty odd (though no more odd than a row of pennies I guess!) However - a slug in the kitchen sink?!! I draw the line! How did it even get there? The kitchen is - slugwise - a good distance from the door. Did it crawl all the way there, or did it hitch a ride on my dog's back and crawl up?!!! It's a conspiracy!!! Arghh! And you thought we New Yorkers only had bedbugs and cockroaches to contend with, haha (thankfully I don't have those - I guess slugs aren't so bad after all!) Winter is coming so I'll be safe for awhile - unless there's a sleeper cell of the little b_stards hidden somewhere in my apt.....!!!!!
I just had to add my two cents worth - my friends here don't understand how traumatic this is, haha!