I also use beer and that has been pretty effective. For me poison of any kind is not an option as I have several cats, one of which is my baby and becoming geriatric so I don't want to take any chances. I went to the dollar store last year and bough several small plastic ashtrays. I just sit them behind my hostas and they are hidden by the leaves. On the weekends I go out and buy the cheapest 40 ounce bottles of beer I can get and just re fill the ashtrays. I don't clean them out until the end of the season as they just fill up with slug corpses again anyway. I find that doing this once a week works fine, is completely biodegradable and safe for kitty. Finally the looks I received from my neighbors the first Saturday morning I strolled out with a Miller-Lite 40 ouncer in hand I will cherish forever. Hope this helps. Kate

Coll, you say" So I either spray and melt them on the spot or cut them in half with a tool if I have one handy. I read that if they have even one eye left, they will live. You can squash them with your foot, but cutting them in half is just making two of them, or so I assume. This is really a gross subject, reminds me of a slobbering bulldog with strings of slime getting on my hands, and I really don't like that....although bulldogs are fine, nothing against them, just their drool!!! You all have some exotic slimeballs to deal with, mine are all one kind, that wet gray color. My turtle disappeared, have not seen any frogs or toads this year, so it is up to me and the ammonia and Sluggo Plus and any other chemical in my arsenal. I had to stop with the pellets while it was raining so much, but now I must resume the back breaking job of spreading Sluggo on the ground, and ammonia in the pots. It's amazing to me that tender plant roots do not die from the ammonia, because it destroys my skin if I come in contact with it--or bleach for that matter. After I treated some plantaginea with a bleach solution for foliar nematodes, I had dermatitis for two weeks....it got on my hands and kneecaps, don't know how that happened.

Oh those dirty rats! I hate the little blighters. One slug will lay 1,000 eggs. That's a lot of baby slugs. Use slug bait, Sluggo pellets work very well. You probably don't want to put that into your strawberries so put it on a paper plate, plastic lid or something. The slugs will find it. Next do go slug hunting, morning before the sun hits your beds or dusk when it cools off. Put some salt in a baggie and sprinkle just a bit onto the slugs you find. This will kill them instantly. No slug babies. Next you can look for slug eggs. They will be under rocks, brick, bark etc. Anywhere they can be cool moist and shady during the day. They will look like little bits of tapioca pudding. Tiny translucent beads all grouped together. Toss on the salt. No slug babies. This is a hassle, you have to be persistent and consistent. It is however worth it. If you can get the slug population down and under control you can bait farther away from your beds and not have nearly the problem in the future. Good luck fighting the good fight.

Sluggo. It is iron phosphate, completely natural and safe for use with pets. And I doubt it even tastes good to them as my pets have never touched it. Mice like it, though :-))