Slimy guests

A couple weeks ago I was finding what seemed like feather light melted plastic across the carpeting. When I asked my husband about it, he said, oh, those are slug trails!
To which I replied... what ?! ugh!!
We found one... then two... my husband thinks they came in with my potted herbs I put outside for a few warm days.

When we got our dripping facet in the kitchen fixed, my husband thinks the new dryness 'starved' out the next four we found inching across the kitchen floor!

My husband fondly remembers as a child racing downstairs in the morning and competing with his siblings to see who could 'erase' more slug trails from the floor with their shirt cuffs... hmm

But no complaints here, WAY less scary than fast escaping centipedes.. or spiders... and MUCH easier to catch than mice!
I heard an Australian comedian sharing about all the dangerous and scary creatures in their country, and he found it amusing the most dangerous creature in England was ... a swan! 'Their wings could break your arm!' he was told several times with fright

But no complaints here, WAY less scary than fast escaping centipedes.. or spiders... and MUCH easier to catch than mice!

Mmmm, wait till you step on one in bare/socked feet the dark... *shudders* I still have memories from the frogs my cat used to bring in, would usually find the darn things underfoot when making a bathroom trip in the middle of the night.

oh, the frogs sound scary!

Hey, England has one breed of poisonous adder! Also, they're protected, so no beating them to death with a hoe (a thing I watched my mother do to a snake once).

We have slugs in the house, too. I don't know *how* they squeeze their slimy selves under the front door, but they do. AND spiders and rodents.

Country life, eh?

Snails? Really? Just snails? Good thing you've never had to rescue your kitty from a rattler! The snails would be a treat for my kitties.
I have stepped barefoot on one or two in my MIL's garden last time we were over, yuck!

My dad used to put salt on the slugs in the garden -- which seems very cruel to me. I prefer the beer trap method. At least they drown happy 

The slugs in our garden are uncontrollable, and grow to monstrous sizes.  If they ever came into the house, I would lose the plot.  We have spiders living in the bathroom, and that's all the creepy-crawly-slimy I could take indoors.

We get them in our kitchen at night. I've stepped on so many at 3am with bare feet that I am now in the habit of turning on the light first and having a bleary look around. Only place I can think they're getting in is the ever so small gap in the kitchen door. I've heard that just a barrier of salt outside the door will do the trick. Been meaning to do it but keep forgetting until the next time I step on one.

Yeah, the slugs grow to truly improbable sizes here. And they seem to eat everything.
 
We have an outside cat and his bowl is often covered in giant slugs. We try to put out only enough for him to finish in one go, but they "lick the plate" as it were.

Ugh.

We get little ones inside from time to time - or rather usually traces that they've been.  I can't isolate exactly how they're getting in, but it's from a gap around the front door somewhere.  I've put a salt trail down before, but they still got in - so they must have crawled up the doorframe somewhere or hitched a ride in on something else.  They've been on the milk bottle outside in the morning before too!

If you want a more humane, organic way of getting rid of them, try nematodes.  The slugs eat them (tiny organisms) & either it kills them or they're stuffed too full or something.  I think you have to keep renewing your application of nematodes every 6-8 weeks though - we tried it once, but DH only did one application so the slugs came back!

We had better luck this year in keeping the slug population down, in that DH weeded regularly & relentlessly for most of the summer (through August anyway) - and in so doing, he picked up many many many teensy tiny ones and sent them straight into a salt water bath.  So we didn't seem to end up with as many huge ones because he got rid of them when they were only little.

We have lots of tiger slugs in our compost bin outdoors - but those are good slugs, good for the compost - for turning & eating & pooping it to make better compost, plus they are cannibals & eat each other too apparently!

That is a funny website, Mrs R. I love that one of the recommendations for getting rid of slugs organically is mowing your lawn at night. LOL. Your neighbors would be so mad.

Slugs? Shudder.....

I . . . hate . . . slugs . . . so . . . much! 

Our home's previous owner thought it was inhumane to kill any creepy crawly (she lives up the street and tells us this with pride), and there are now slugs and snails everywhere.  I can't get rid of them for anything.  Last summer I planted around 80 bedding flowers imagining my beautiful garden.  They were all gone within weeks.  Yep, completely gone.  I thought they might nibble on the leaves, but the entire plants just disappeared.  I have no qualms about killing them now.

I'm glad to hear others saying they've found them inside.  I sometimes find them crawling up the bathroom wall, which is often moist.  I can't for the life of me figure out how they got in there, so it was a bit disturbing to find them.  It sounds as if we aren't alone.