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 leave them all alone. I only plant things they don't like to eat and/or plant the occasional plant all over the garden that they love so they feed on that.

Some of the responses on this thread are just grim. Pests or not they're still alive and capable of feeling pain, yet some seem proud of coming up with cruel ways to kill.

I don’t know enough about slug physiology to know if they feel pain but you should know that feeling pain is not universal across the animal kingdom. Still, that’s why I squish them- job done quick = more humane! Reckon I’m a hell of a lot more humane than most of the animal kingdom anyway, for starters I don’t lay my eggs in them so my babies can eat them slowly from the inside out or any weird shit like that.

Thanks Redwoods I have screen shotted that. I love your Club Tropicana for slugs and hope mine will appreciate it
These slugs are getting top knotch treatment. Picked up four cans of Skol today. DD wanted to hold them so I had to say loudly “for the slugs”as Skol is just awful😂

feeling pain is not universal across the animal kingdom

How is this known?

Anything with the power of movement and a rudimentary nervous system will show attraction to some things and aversion to other things - sometimes extreme aversion. Whether we call it 'pain' or not, it's clear there are some things slugs and snails really do not like.

No organism enjoys being killed or eaten yet without killing and eating there is no ecosystem. The ability to feel pain is an adaptation to help an organism avoid harm or death but it does not exempt that organism from harm or death.

Food/gardening/farming ethics based on not killing anything that might possibly feel pain are fluffy and meaningless. I understand the attraction of this argument but snails love salad crops just as much as the rest of us, including the most principled vegans.

Avoid causing unnecessary pain
Avoid waste
Avoid wider environmental impacts

Accept that if you want to eat salad crops and many other vegetables this will involve killing slugs, snails and other pests and that they won't like it.

This is a hefty thread for the gardening topic!