How do you dispose of live slugs and snails?

[RaffertyFair]

If you go out in the evening and collect the little blighters - how do you dispatch what you collect? Bearing in mind I like my neighbours, so hurling them over the fence is not an option

I currently add them to the slug pubs that I also have in situ but snails slither out ...

I have just watered in nematodes so have a longer term strategy but there are still lots to pick off .

I scoop them up in a dustpan and hurl them as far as I can. I also use prodigious amounts of gravel around plants they like.

I collect and pop on the drain cover before calling the chickens over.
At which point they morpf from chickens to terradactyls.....scary hungry chickens

We live 5 minutes' walk from some large woods so I rehome them there.

I don't know what people think when they see me walking down the road with my bucket...

I don't know if it works or not - I'm nor prepared to sit for hours watching a rock!
Guess what I just spent five minutes doing.
The snail was prepared to dip his head in the water to investigate escape routes but always kept at least a third of his body on the rock. So it looks like this might work, as long as your moat is deep enough and wide enough.

I don't dispose of them live - I stick them in a bucket with some salty water. Yucky but effective.

I Love the term slug pub. Cheers 🐌🍻

Oh no! He got so desperate that he went swimming. Still alive after about half an hour in the water now back on the sacrificial stone.
So much for that theory ...

Tip salt on them

Tennis racket, launch them in to next door but one’s overgrown garden.

I leave them. We live in an ecosystem, they’re a food source for birds and hedgehogs. Plus I can’t bring myself to hurt a living being for no reason. Perhaps if I’m eating them to survive, but not just so I can look at pretty flowers.

I used to give them to friends at the end of a dinner party to take with them, and dispose of them in the Park on their walk home.

I didn't want to kill them, but needed them well away from my garden.

As I type that, I realise quite how how random it sounds, but it is true ...... this was in my early 30s, before I turned grown up and had babies etc.

I gather them up after a rain shower and rehome them in a patch of shrubbery in the park down the road. I don’t want to kill them. They can’t help being what they are.

Ds takes a rolling pin to them. Win win because I don't have to deal with them and ds gets paid

does someone keep chickens in your area?

You need predators. Birds, hedgehogs, frogs, etc.

Take them to woodland about 150yds away, or feed them to our ducks

Paying child to kill things..eugh!

Fling them onto a patch of grass by my house.

I've used the grit and sheep's wool repellents this year and so far the slugs and snails have kept a low profile. Plus we went to see the giant slug sculptures at Tate Modern earlier in the year so I'm slightly more tolerant of them now. I'll move them on but no more beer traps.

DH salts them (goes out at night armed with a torch and his prehistoric hunter gatherer instinct. I give them to the chickens (but not usually after they've been Salted).

When it is a question of killing slugs/snails or losing a whole crop of veg, I'll kill slugs.

I pop them in a bucket and release them in nearby woods. Can't bear to kill them.

I found a hedgehog in the garden and I leave the slugs and snails alone. Blackbirds love them as well.

Beer traps are doing well here

Quite frankly, I find some of the killing methods mentioned on this thread, absolutely disgusting and cruel.
Fair enough they’re pests but to run them over, or suffocate in a nappy bag is sick.
I don’t particularly like cats and find them a pest when they crap in my garden, could you imagine the uproar if I suffocated it in a bin bag though. (I wouldn’t because I’m not cruel).

Snails in my garden are liable to be vigorously beaten against a paving slab ... not by me, by thrushes.

I keep empty Lurpak tubs and once I’ve collected a dozen or so I take them with me on a dog walk and leave them (opened!) in a park or woods or something - if you see empty tubs littering your park that will be me !
Definitely can’t kill them they’re amazing and actually quite friendly. I also nail varnished a few and studied their comings & goings over several years hence my one way trips far far away 😁