AIBU to rescue snails and put them in front gardens

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On my way to work in the morning I sometimes see snails crossing the pavement heading towards the road. Often I pick them up and pop them in the nearest garden so they don’t dry out or get trodden on or run over. But I know some gardeners view snails as pests. Snails are left in peace in our garden.

AIBU?

Yabu. I wish nothing but death on those allotment destroying fuckers.

I do the same.

Although sometimes I worry that the snail was making it's way somewhere and I've hindered it's journey.

I do it with catterpillars too.

If I caught you putting snails in my garden there would be Words.

I move them somewhere towards the direction they were travelling. Not gardens usually

There are millions and millions of snails, and they eat my flowers. Save your conservation energy for something that needs it!

Please don’t put them in my garden. Spend half my life killing the fuckers

I do it but only if there’s a garden nearby that looks snail friendly - so a bit wilder, not a really neat looking garden where the snail is going to eat somebody’s prize roses or whatever.

Put them in your own garden. Not mine

I do this, and I,m a gardener. Karma innit.

I do this too, as do my children. Sorry, gardeners.

When I found them in my old front garden, I would throw them onto the road. I felt it gave them a chance if they moved fast enough.

You would understand if you ever had tried to grow hostas and if I found you doing this I would have let rip in no uncertain terms.

I do the same!

Yes I do this. Couldn't care less about someone's flowers snails are an important aspect of the ecosystem, they feed of rotting vegetation and are a food source for birds, newts, foxes, small snakes etc they add rich nutrients to the ground. The people who kill these for the sake of their gardens really are deluded as if people keep doing this we won't have workable gardens. You can't keep messing with the ecosystem and think it's just going to work out.

i give them to the birds

That’s a horrid thing to do! . They will eat the gardeners plants but ultimately they are homing snails and will just resume their journey. So you’ve delayed their journey (and the late snail is the one that’s scoffed) and damaged someone else’s plants. Not kind in any way.

i dont actually give them to the birds but i consider the birds

You can in my front garden, that's where I keep the chickens ;)
Snails are ripped to shreds V quickly

Snails can find their way home mostly:

[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/16/snails-homing-instinct-overcome-move-20-metres-away]]

You would get them thrown back at you if I saw you!
I have enough snails eating my plants to shreds thanks.

Please don't do that. Put all slimy fuckers in your pocket and take them home. You like them, you keep them.

I do it with catterpillars too.

Well, I thought the snails were weird beyond words but this is the clear winner. If I caught anyone putting caterpillars in my garden I would spit it big time.

if you ever had tried to grow hostas

Oh, I tried, I tried.
The sorrow.

YABU Stay out of it and let nature take its course.

It's your choice to not kill them but adding them to someone else's garden is wrong.

if you have witnessed a thrush trying to get into a snail's shell, it is fascinating

I rescue the poor fellows, and I'm an obsessive gardener. Don't kill them in my garden either, or slugs. It's not their fault plants are tasty.