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

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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?

Op is training to become a teacher. I wouldn't want her in charge of any child.

Seriously? I would have no problem with OP teaching my children on the basis of her post here. I would love someone with organic tendencies and environmental know-how to pass it on to my kids.

OP - you're doing it wrong. You need a bucket of water, go round every night and pick all the slugs and snails off everything and chuck them in the bucket (it must have a lid on it) - they rot down (the smell is unholy) and it makes something called nematodes or some such thing - someone more educated will be along to correct me in a minute), you then spray the resulting matter on your garden and it stops any other slugs visiting.

Seriously? I would have no problem with OP teaching my children on the basis of her post here. I would love someone with organic tendencies and environmental know-how to pass it on to my kids.

What does throwing salt on snails and standing over them laughing as they die got anything to do with having organic tendencies and environmental know-how?

Slugs, not snails. The snails get thrown into the next door neighbours garden, I forgot.

I add boiling water to salt in a jam jar and drop the fuckers in. I imagine boiling water will kill them before they taste the salt. Unfortunately I forget about the full jam jar and a few weeks later it has turned to soup.

I used to have a special knife for killing slugs. Their friends would turn up to feast on their mate's guts and I'd have them too.

I don't enjoy the death of any animal, (but I do hunt deer)

However some of the responses are pretty nuts!

Sometimes it's necessary to kill things but I find it incredibly weird (and pretty horrible) that anyone would a) choose to kill something slowly rather than quickly and b) derive pleasure or fascination from that.

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I must be just a sadistic as you. I love pouring washing up liquid solution on ants and watching them die. I hate the things

Oddish lol

Why dont you encourage their predators to live in your garden aka hedgehogs frogs birds etc?

They would keep the population of slugs down, (while i accept encouraging frogs is hard as need water feature) birds are far easier a couple of bird boxes and you would be sorted

I made traps out of nasty Cider the teenagers didn't like. I find I can never quite waste beer on them. Works a treat. HUGE harvest every night.

Why did you put lighthearted?? It's not, and yes you are a sadist. This is horrible to read and you're disgusting.

It is deeply unpleasant to enjoy watching any animal die.

YANBU! I would do this too

Not lighthearted you are sick and shouldn't be a teacher

Dh goes round the garden last thing at night with a torch and an edging spade. Quick and clean. He's been brought up in a hunting-fishing-shooting household and even he wouldn't relish watching something die like that. You are indeed a bit odd Op.

I have no prob with killing slugs, but delighting in it is abnormal and unpleasant.

You sound nastier than the kid on the "I called her kid a psychopath" thread.

This is revolting and more than a little fucked up.

I'm no fan of slugs. But they're just doing what they're meant to do. You, OP, on the other hand, are horrible.

It's not lighthearted to enjoy watching something die slowly and I wouldn't want you teaching my kid either. Yes they're a pest and I can understand needing to deal with that but enjoying death is really disturbing.
To the parent that encouraged their child to stamp on snails - you're also really warped. It's not normal to encourage children to kill stuff.

You need to collect them all every night in a lidded bucket and then once a week let them out in a hedgerow.

I was much happier once I did that. I'm still upset over cutting one in half with scissors accidentally - it was horrible And I hate slugs