Effectiveness/safety of X-Clude insecticide?

[smweaver]

I currently don't have any animals, but if I did, I would not try this product. I would be mortified to find that I had inadvertently poisoned an animal--any animals for that matter, which is why I'm constantly on slug and snail patrol in the spring and summer months when the nasty mollusks are active and all of my plants are outdoors. I've been sorely tempted to get a metaldehyde (sp?) based slug killer, but I also see lots of toads hopping about, along with chipmunks and other residents of my yard that I really wouldn't want to harm. If you do use the pyrethrin/permethrin based insecticide in your orchidariums, I would very much like to know how it goes. Just be careful with your cats! My mom has a crazy siamese cat that looks very docile but has an uncanny (and unnerving) ability to get itself into trouble when no one's around.