Anyone else feel guilty killing slugs?

[Mirroredas198]

I mean it’s ridiculous isn’t it!

I was in the garden last night, waiting for the dog to do her business. Loads of massive slugs crawling about, I had a poo bag in hand and picked them all up and threw them in the big. I’m now imagining the horrible death they’re going to have. Do slugs have feelings?!

I don't kill them but chuck them in the garden waste bin where they can chomp to their heart's content. Mostly we get snails here though.

Oh, there is a website that wants people to register hedgehog sightings. I can't remember it right now. They even want to know about dead ones.

I used to a have regular hedgehog visitor in my garden. It was the same one as he had a rip in his ear. Was covered in tics, but I painted them with Frontline and they all fell off. He would go in my house. Found him behind the washing machine one time. Another time, he climbed my stairs and was under my bed! Used to hibernate in an old cat house in my garden. One year, he never woke up. Was just dead and dried out.

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I use pellets, but they're the kind that are suitable for organic gardening, containing ferric phosphate, which is not poisonous to pets and wildlife, but does terrible things to slugs.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the old style, poisonous slug pellets (methyl something?) had been banned, so all slug pellets nowadays are wildlife safe?

I use the wool pellets around things they might particularly like, for example dahlias. It’s not perfect, but I’m not keen on killing stuff thats just living it’s life outside.

I use the same ones. Is all you can buy now anyway.

No, I usually slash them in half with a sharp stone, instant death! I have also used nematodes in the past, gave up on beer traps as they stink and need to keep emptying. I read somewhere that hedgehogs are not that keen on slugs anyway.

I put our beer traps in my herb and veg bed. I was refilling them every day with fresh beer until I realised I could just keep the same beer in there for a while and just dispose of the dead slugs.
feel bad killing a living thing but it’s my veg or the slugs and the veg wins. I do also relocate any live ones I catch over to the other side of the garden where our hens live. Circle of life really.

Yes - I wouldn’t do it. Move them.

Pest control in agriculture has always been a thing. If we were reliant on growing our own food, we wouldn’t have a choice. We can still want lovely gardens, they have their place in our lives. Would you let rats run riot in your house? I can’t get sentimental about pests. In fact, I’d very much like to humanely kill the damned pigeons that are a real problem around here.

Move where?

It has been so dry here that the slugs aren't thriving, but I don't feel guilty about preventing them from eating my plants.

I have just read that we have had the driest spring in Yorkshire since records begun, and they have closed some of the locks on the Leeds Liverpool canal to conserve water.

We have no slugs just now.

Do I feel guilty killing slugs? Hell no. Slugs are the spawn of the devil.

Strangely, I hear and read about many people pouring boiling water on flying ants, going crazy about mayflies, those creatures only get to exist for a moment in time…..

Slugs are pointless cunts. The End

Yes, concisely put.

I am aghast at the low depths humans will go to against other creatures. All of you burning them, boiling them and suffocating them -and using slug pellets - I hope you come back as a slug. What horrible people.

i have a garden full of insects and snails and slugs and consequently have a garden full of birds and wildlife. It all balances itself out