There's a slug in ma kitchen what am I gonna do, there's a slug in ma kitchen

[oliveoil]

...what am I gonna do, I'm gonna get that slug etc etc.

It or they appear at night usually when I am bog eyed tired and fed up with a small child.

How do they get in and what do I do with them?

Don't stand on it with just your socks on - Not nice, talking from Experience

Poor salt all over the floor so they melt - that'll teach'em to mess with you

Phone the fire brigade! At least then some good would come out of a disgustingly traumatic situation.

Get a piece of card and put it in the garden. Don't cover it in salt, it's a horrible death!!!

poor slug, only trying to find a way out..

Get a hedgehog - they eat slugs don't they??

Why do they appear at night? I don't do anything with them as I am busy with dd2 or whoever has got me out of bed but I would shove them in back in the garden otherwise.

Do they squeeze through tiny gaps?

Sorry Monkeytrousers -

Don't poor salt on the floor! not nice..

step on it and listen to the satisfying 'crunch'

Pah murderers the lot of you.

We have a hedgehog!!! - DS1 spotted it in the yard the other night! It panicked and tried to get into a flowerpot from the bottom end but we hope it is living under our shed; anyway I have always used salt or pellets before but don't dare now in case the hog eats them.

OO, I get slugs in the kitchen too - I think they get in through the airvents and lurk under the cabinets - I have sprinkled a tiny few pellets at the corners where the trails are and it stops them for a while. Obviously with little kids you'll need to put some down at night and sweep up again next morning.

This morning I saw those silvery tracks all over the peaches in the fruit bowl [nausea] -- enough to make me reach gaily for the slug pellets. Leave out a saucer overnight, enjoy the death throes the next morning over the Weetabix.

No fricking idea where they get in.

VOM!

Will they wriggle all over my plates and stuff in the cupboards?

Double vom.

Or put some beer down and they'll drown in a happy drunken daze - is that kinder?

Slugs are LOATHSOME