# Slugzilla invaded my kitchen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834 "2007-10-07T07:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/1 "2007-10-07T07:52:19Z")
_[cross-posted from my blog]_ I was in the bathroom putting on makeup prior to leaving for work tonight when mini-Marli came running down the hallway with a traumatized look on her face. Since she’s a 9 year old girl and drama is her way of life, I mildly asked, “What’s up?” while continuing to fight with my mascara. “There’s a slug _this long_ (indicating a length more suitable to a 30 year old anaconda) in the kitchen!” she gasped. I’ve had slugs in the kitchen before, and they’re never more than an inch or so long. They come up through the crack between the floor and the base of the fireplace (which I should probably caulk or block up or something, because of energy efficiency), and usually they just ooze around the cat food bowls for a while and then go away, so I wasn’t too worried as I wandered into the kitchen in search of this mythical creature. My daughter followed me, wringing her hands and striking “oogy” postures. And then I saw it, and my first thought was, “Ai, ai! A Balrog has come!” Not really. But I did recoil and go, “Ewwwww!” “See?” said the daughter triumphantly. “I told you!” It was more the size of a 2 year old garter snake than a 30 year old anaconda, which was some comfort, but not much, because a slug of any size is just gross, since they’re nothing but ambulatory snot. It lay by the base of the fireplace oozing and glistening and contemplating life (or destruction, who knows what slugs think about). I’d like to report that I leapt into action at once, striking hard with the salt and vanquishing mine enemy in a bubbling puddle of chemical reaction and goo. I’d like to say that I struck a heroic pose with my box of Morton’s Iodized held high, my daughter gazing at me worshipfully, and the sounds of Big Momma Slug’s children’s lament filling my soul with contentment. It’d be a better story if I could say that, but there was no way I was salting that big bastard on my kitchen floor. I’d never get all that crap off the linoleum. I scooped it up on a piece of cardboard (causing it to hiss at me and shorten itself up so it resembled the amputated thumb of Andre the Giant (okay, it didn’t hiss but it wanted to, I could tell)) and took it in to show my husband. His reaction, quoted verbatim, was “Ugh! Ew! Get that thing away from me! Ewwww!” I threw the icky beast outside and left for work. With any luck the possum living in my bushes will eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Testy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Testy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Testy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/2 "2007-10-07T08:12:37Z")
**Marlitharn** Thank you. I shall be thinking of the Balrog-slug all day. Great post! Regards Testy ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/3 "2007-10-07T08:51:17Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] It was more the size of a 2 year old garter snake [/QUOTE] About how big is that in standard measurements? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/4 "2007-10-07T11:16:34Z")
You remind me of the Conan story where he fights the giant slug that has kept an ancient city clear of all intruders. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/5 "2007-10-07T11:44:02Z")
Fix the crack or more will come! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/6 "2007-10-07T11:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] _\_ …since they’re nothing but ambulatory snot. [/QUOTE] This just leapt out at me - what a poetic description! _\_ And dare I suggest that \*\*\*Ambulatory Snot \*\* \* would make a disturbing band name?? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/7 "2007-10-07T12:11:37Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] About how big is that in standard measurements? [/QUOTE] Half a sheep shank, three quarters of a wolf’s mane, and four times the length of a horse’s welt. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/8 "2007-10-07T12:47:39Z")
☹ You killed it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/9 "2007-10-07T13:26:04Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] ☹ You killed it. ☹ [/QUOTE] No she didn’t, she put it outside, where it should be. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/10 "2007-10-07T13:44:31Z")
Only on the SDMB would I find people sympathetic to slugs. I actually tossed it on top of my outside trash can, still on the cardboard, figuring it would slime its way down the side of the can and maybe go visit Mr. Possum. On arriving home this morning I discovered that cardboard apparently has anti-slug properties - it appears to have sucked away all the slug’s evil, leaving behind only a withered hunk of rubbery slug corpse. Yay cardboard! > [@Sage Rat](#): > > About how big is that in standard measurements? Larger than a 3 year old nightcrawler, but nowhere near as big as a 6 month old electric eel. Or about 7 inches. Now I know why this house was so cheap, the slugs probably kept eating the realtors. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/11 "2007-10-07T14:31:54Z")
Oh, I apologize **Malitharn** , I read the OP wrong. But yeah, I love slugs with a level of fervor that is usually reserved for biologists. I’ll never forget on my honeymoon we came across two huge brown slugs lying on the pavement, and I got to poke one and watch it ooze around for a bit… the pictures didn’t really come out, though. …yeah… :o _slinks away_ On preview: SEVEN INCHES? Oh, that I should be so lucky someday… ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/12 "2007-10-07T14:42:59Z")
I live not far from prime habitat for [the second-largest terrestrial slug](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug). No hike in the Santa Cruz Mountains is complete without seeing a couple of the little fellers. The banana slug also happens to be the UC Santa Cruz mascot. It was voted “Best College Mascot” of 2004 in a Reader’s Digest poll. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/13 "2007-10-07T14:47:42Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] The banana slug also happens to be the UC Santa Cruz mascot. [/QUOTE] Yes, I am aware of the Fighting Banana Slugs! I think I would attend that school just to have the honor of saying I am a fighting banana slug. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/14 "2007-10-07T15:20:12Z")
Slugs can hiss? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugzilla-invaded-my-kitchen/421834/15 "2007-10-07T16:53:56Z")
I think slugs poop on the side of my house. I wander outside with a mug of tea and ciggie, and note that it must be fall, for I have slugs on the wall. Or the side of the house. Eww. (The ‘little’ green ones, not the banana slugs.) I also note that the siding, which I washed down in the spring, is occasionally dotted with little mounds of… Slug poo?