Am I a sadist and don't realise it? (lighthearted)

[Anewcareerforme]

I'm a keen gardener although only have a small but very lovingly looked after patio garden with hundreds of plants. I have anacondas slugs in the multiples of thousands and they all eat my precious plants which I spend hours carefully looking after. I have tried everything, bar nuclear war; mine are staunch tee totallers, they don't eat any pellets organic or not, they happily dance around on copper tape flock to wool and relish coffee grounds and nematodes make no difference. Perhaps I need to antagonise Kim Jon Un. So now everyday I go out and I pick the disgusting revolting hideous things up and drop them in a pot of salt, and watch with fascination and delight as they writhe around.
My DH thinks it cruel.
Im normally gentle animal loving I wouldn't kill any kind go bug etc but not these disgusting things. Am I a sadist in disguise?

That's a pretty horrific death for them, can't you just throw them out of your garden? I feel your pain though, damn slugs took all but two of 30 tomatoes, all my peas, beans, beetroot, carrots and squash.

Yeah that's pretty crazy

I throw the snails into next doors garden! His garden is massive so whats another couple of snails? I started putting them down the drain alive but one started crawling back out, there like something out of a horror movie. At night they climb up the French windows leaving their horrible trail. God they give me the creeps.
One I've just killed was 5 cm long.

YABU and not lighthearted if you get satisfaction from killing creatures and watching them die when they are just doing what nature intended.

My friend gathers picks them all up, pills them up on her drive and then runs them over, laughing as she does it!
They just don't bring out peoples more desirable tendencies!

Odd.

What's the difference between leaving slug pellets lying around which they eat and then die and dropping them into salt or drowning them in beer?

Wow do you live in a psycho neighbourhood?

Both you and your friend actually sound mentally unhinged. As for throwing them into neighbours garden, that's so disrespectful to other people's property.

Not sure how the lighthearted label is appropriate

My mum used to go out at night with a torch and pair of scissors and cut them in half. Snails got put in a small bucket and lobbed over the back fence into the park.

What's the difference between leaving slug pellets lying around which they eat and then die and dropping them into salt or drowning them in beer?

I don't know as I wouldn't do any of those things.

I wouldn't do either, but the difference is standing over them watching them die in delight.

I manage everything else fanatically organically; ladybirds for greenfly etc, but slugs just don't respond to this kind of sustainable gardening. This is totally out of character, I specifically buy plants to attract bees and butterflies, am tolerant of wasps, wouldn't dream of hurting spiders, centipedes, woodlice, etc its just slugs Ive got it in for. I wouldn't mind if there weren't quite so many of the bloody things, I usually gather 30+ a day.

Both you and your friend actually sound mentally unhinged.

It is nasty to do it but the fact that you also like to watch, yes I seriously think there is something not right about that, about you. Same goes for your friend. This is a horrible thread. You are awful.

On another thread a poster is called a young boy a psychopath for standing on an insect.... I would forgive the young boy but this is pretty grim.

I think enjoying watching anything die in pain is a bit off.

I am glad you and her aren't my friend. .

I would dump you both. .
I hope you don't have dc. .

You sound vile. I appreciate the issue as I'm overrun by them too but why not set humane things like beer traps. Delighting in their suffering is downright cruel and not remotely lighthearted.

This is actually fucking scary

I think it makes you a mean bastard to be honest.

I think when you have been battling something and reach a certain point of frustration, you get a bit callous.

I got like that with headlice!

Get a hedgehog or toads or something that eats slugs. I agree with others that the way you're currently dealing with the issue is cruel.

Not the best really.

@Anewcareerforme I throw the snails into next doors garden! His garden is massive so whats another couple of snails?

Snails have a homing instinct, so they'll be back with vengeance

OP have your tried salt?

Instead of putting salt directly on slugs I like to pour a circle of salt around them leaving a little space between them and the salt. That way they have space for a bit of a run up and if they are athletic enough they'll be able to jump over the salt without touching it. In this way I am using Darwinism to help develop a new race of super slugs that will be able to take over the World. It's nice to have a goal in life I've always thought.