Do slugs come into your house? Updated with video p4

No slugs in our current flat, but we live on the 2nd floor, so they'd need to be pretty nifty at stairs to get to us.

I used to have terrible slugs in a student house I lived in. We resorted to a wall of salt all around the kitchen & living room. Then we all had a big argument about who had to clean up the resulting melty-sluggy mess. I think we hoovered it up in the end.

We used to have slugs - they would come into the office and eat envelopes/other bits of paper. They are quite greedy, slugs.

We got rid of them when the house was repaired after being flooded, but I don't really recommend that as a solution

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No slugs but the cat caught a rat the size of him home last week. <shudder> He normally brings teeny tiny mice and leaves them neatly placed at the front door. I don't like rats. ? (Yes, I'd never last in Londinium.)

Ants are the big problem here, although for some reason not so much this year. I've seen myself sitting pinned a la sophie on the sofa (although I'm sure sophie wasn't crying) when we had a particularly bad invasion a few years ago. ?

Crying? I was simply howling ? I've only ever seen rats from a safe distance on tube lines in London, fwiw.

We've got a Victorian house full of holes as well. No slugs here (in London) but I can understand your H's escalation fears. One sunny evening last summer I went to bed (H was out) and just as I was about to nod off a gigantic rat strolled through the bedroom door. I don't mind mice as grew up in the country but rats are a step too far. Barricaded myself and small child in the living room until H came home and dealt with it.

The next day I was cleaning upstairs when I got the shock of my life - went to hoover under our bed and a small fox shot out and down the stairs!

Rats and ants are my worst nightmares, I think. Well them and killer prawns. ?

Rats are horrible things, I really don't know how people can keep them as pets and how on earth a rather elderly and less sprightly than he used to be Frankie managed to catch that one. I swear he was a king rat or something, it was huge. Thank god for cats. ? I just keep telling myself it must have been in a neighbours garden (even thought it means the elderly and less sprightly cat would have had to get it over a 6ft fence to get it to us. ?)

I don't think I would mind ants if they didn't come in their millions. We had a guy from the council here the year before last and it did seem to help, whatever he did. I remember being at a bbq last year and when the bbq was lit, litererally thousands of ants appeared from underneath paving slabs in the garden, heading towards the bbq. It was like a horror movie. ? Just thinking of them invading the house makes me feel sick.

OMG!!! ?

We don't get slugs but we did in my old student house. We get woodlice which my son adores, he tends to rescue them and set them free in the garden.

My mum accidentally ate half a slug, she was eating lettuce from the allotment and it was a bit chewy. She also got one in her shoe and walked around on it all day. Yuck.

I had a nightly invasion of slugs in a grotty house I once rented. I got some sticky-backed copper tape from Homebase which worked a treat. I had to put it all round all the floor level air vents outside the house, along the threshold of both back doors. Apparently the slugs' slime meets the copper and gives the slug a nasty shock so they won't cross it. It was great stuff, I could have charged the slugs rent before I banished them!!

Perfectly normal (the slug invasion, not the husband behaviour ?) but then I would say that, as we get the occasional slimy visitor too. We're also in a Victorian house, in the middle of a park, so I guess it's to be expected. Along with the myriad spiders and related creatures, the woodlice, the wood pigeon who bellieves he is a cockerel and the squirrels.

Not since my student days when I lived in Bath (maybe its a West Country thing).

They were the huge killer variety about 10+cm long. We tried everything - salt, bowls of beer, you name it. We'd hoover up the trails before going to bed and in the morning they'd be all over the place.

We didn't have webcams back then [old fart icon] but your SET sounds about right as we never caught them at it after a late night at Bog Island which meant arriving home around 3am!

Another gappy victorian house here with nocturnal slug invasion. I hate hate it, I'm with your H, I feel kind of insulted. I would not, however, set up slug cam.Sounds like he thinks it's one with some kind of domicile/ownership issues.

They definitely come up through our floorboards as they are just on top of the ground I think. Mank. We salt them. Bugger this 'all gods creatures' - slugs forewent any all gods creatures priveledges the day they chose to mess up their previous lives so badly that they became slugs.

Certainly made me jump a bit. There's hundreds of urban foxes here and I don't really mind them, but would rather they stayed outside!

Here's the video (sound advised)

Oh God Hazel! ? I almost peed my pants watching that!

Bloody brilliant!

Waaaahhhhh!

Here come the girls! Starring 'The Lounge' ?

That's funny Hazel.

We had loads in our house at uni. We now have a lovely slug trail behind the cooker. The cats bring them in. I'm loathed to remove it as we are renovating so it will be gone eventually.

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Waaaah!

That is fab!

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Waaaaaaaaaaaaah ? ?

I love Hilda's video. She's a star️⭐️

FYI slugs only come to dirty houses ?

Seriously, if Mr Hazel thinks Hilda is bad, he should try my house. It's a clay lump cottage, really damp, and with some kind of slug breeding patch nearby. One night, in 3 seperate 'razzia' style raids, Mr G and I collected over 40 of Hilda's kin. It's like Shangri-La for slugs around here. Next door on both sides have the same problem [shudder]

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We used to get them coming into the downstairs loo. There's a vent under the floor and it's not finished yet so they were coming up through the floor. I was fine until I went sit down and saw one, I'm not a slug fan so ran squealing out ?

That is so fab. I think I love your husband a wee bit.

That is totally hilarious.

Is he doing slug-cam again tonight, to see if there is any variation in the SET? I think he should.

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I love it !

That cheered me up, made being up at 5am because of the gales/rain almost bearable.

Wahh! ?

? That's brilliant.

We used to have slug visitors in our old house. It was a Victorian build with vents through the brickwork to the outside. Some mornings it looked as if there'd been some sort of slug party going on, but we never caught the buggers. Apart from the rouge one in the kitchen that I trod on bare foot ?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Hazel ? ? ? ?

Soooo funny!! I like the way Hilda wonders in, has a mooch and then wonders off again, your H is so funny ?

? I think I love your H a little, Hazel!

We have squillions of woodlice. Our house is a wood-built 100-year-old thing and we live on the grpound floor. They just wander in and the cat is no longer interested in the slightest in killing them.

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I had a visitation from one of Hilda's little molluscy relatives the other day. I'm afraid he met a salty death by the skirting board.

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Absolutely brilliant, I cannot believe he made it into a video with music and everyfink - fantastic!!!!!

That's really cheered me up - I am odd!