We have a snail or slug, apparently lodging in our living room, no amount of searching can find the thing, but every morning we have a trail over the rug...as we have cats and kids, bit hesitant to use slug pellets indoors so anyone got any ideas? Other than staying upall night waiting for it to appear....
close the room door overnight - put salt down. Find shrivelled slug in morning.
put a flower pot and a piece of lettuce in the middle of the room. I always find slugs in flower pots, so maybe this'll work?
can you not follow the shiny trail to it's lair?
failing that, it's probably a slug and it'll be coming out from under the skirting boards. just trail salt around the likliest spots and see where it gets disturbed. if you can slug pellets under the floor is quite effective.
They love cheap lager - Tesco Value or similar in a saucer on the floor and it will drink itself to death over night. You might have to clear up the vomit and kebab wrapper but small price to pay...
can you not follow the shiny trail to it's lair?
I've some great images running through my head of [b][i]'The Lair of the Slug'[/i][/b]... that's gotta be a great idea for a B-grade movie surely? 😆
In these situations, think to yourself: "What would Rambo do?"
Nah, "What would Chuck do"?
Chuck Norris wouldn't [i]try[/i] to catch the slug, he'd nuke the house from orbit, it's the only way to be sure 8)
Chuck Norris would venture into the [b][i]Lair of the Slug[/i][/b] and roundhouse kick that mofo out of the house and into the next municipality...
RAMBO!
forget rambo, you gotta think like Chuck on this one
DAMN too slow 🙂
would the 'Lair of the Slug' star Hugh Grant and Amanda Donohonohoe and be sequel to the so bad it's good original?
Please dont throw slup pellets around willy nilly, sorry to sound anal but they are causing the environment all sorts of problems at the moment. I know but its me job see.
Set a beer trap that will have the slimmy bugger.
Ahh!! how could I forget about Chuck Norris?
salt sounds like a good first attempt, if that fails i think i'll call chuck & hugh, then try cheap lager...or maybe i'll get some cheap lager a chuck norris dvd and stay up all night ......
you don't 'watch' a Chuck DVD, really Chuck is watching you, be careful.
We have a snail...trail over the rug...
Do you know what your wife is doing at night?!
Ahem, yup, IGMC 🙁
Just add lettuce...
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"Do you know what your wife is doing at night?"
she's going out and coming home legless?
my old kitchen used to get loads of slimey visitors at night - as I was up in the night alot warming up baby milk at the time I found this distressing (used to hide behind draw handles and stuff)
never really sorted until I ripped out the old kitchen and was able to seal up all the holes in the wall behind the units. (note I was going to replace the kitchen anyway)
might be worth removing the skirting boards and looking for gaps/ holes if you can
I have started to fill the 8 holes each side of the radiator where the previous homeowner measured never and cut eight times, the holes for the pipes...ffs, its not that hard to get close....
I have asked the wife and she denies any involvement, maybe chuck is the slug....
Just think of it as an itinerant or refugee traveler from another country,give it a new home,pay it social security,pay all its bills,invite its family to live free,with their parent,then possibly send it out to work picking veg in the rain in a muddy field.
Hey but thats total fiction,from the realms of the Daily Mail,or is it.
personally id opt for lots of cammo gear and a shotgun.
Cammo gear?, Chuck Norris?, nuking it from orbit?, youre all being totally ****in' ridiculous over a slug!
The correct course of action is to get down to your local Hedgehogs4hire branch, that'll sort it out 🙂
From my student days best way to find/kill an indoors slug is to wander into the kitchen hungover and barefoot early morning after a glass of water...
i have tried that and so far i have only found one pile of cat sick and some baby poo
the salt is down, lets see what i find in the morning....
What grievoustim said.
Unless you block up all the entry points for the slugs, no amount of killing will stop them coming in.
We used to have a slug infested kitchen. One morning I came down, popped some bread in the toaster, pushed the lever down to do the toast, to be then greeted by lots of sparks, smoke, then the toaster cutting out. On closer inspection, a slug had taken up residence overnight in the toaster, gorging itself on the crumbs in the bottom of the toaster tray, then getting itself electrocuted as part of the bagain. Made a right mess that did too...
half a ton of salt and the errant one takes a night off....oh well try again tonight