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[urocyon]

Urgh. I just had to transfer a large slug back outside. One keeps coming in to eat Max's food, I think through a foundation vent and then through some crack in the floorboards and into a kitchen cupboard. Given the size hole they can slither through, I'm not optimistic about finding it, much less blocking it up effectively. That one can get through the tiny crack of a closed and latched cupboard door.

They may be important in their own gastropod way, but I really wish slugs would stay out of our house. *shudder*

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[green_knight]

In my last house, slugs would come through the new, ultra-secure, no gaps anywhere door and I became familiar with 'bare feet/slug interface conditions'. Ugh.

This house, they stay outside, even though the mice do not.

(Every time we have a cold snap, I get mice. Every time they're evicted hastily and with prejudice, but in an old cottage in the country with shared roofspace and random additions and holes behind cupboards, *not* having mice is an utopia.)

[urocyon]

That's one of the reasons I got a pair of fuzzy slippers with waterproof soles; important detail, that! *shudder*

We got mice last year when it started getting colder, though I suspect at least a couple of them were introduced by the cats. The kitchen end of the house was where we were keeping Max, when they were not getting along well. A catch-and-release trap got several of them, but eventually we resorted to closing the dog in the bedroom overnight, leaving the cupboard doors open, and letting the cats prowl. Pretty quickly, no more mice in evidence. I felt a little bad about that approach, but the released ones were likely going right back in someone else's house. :(

Here's hoping that they don't invade your place in hordes this year!