Do snails have feelings?

Take them to a field a long way away and tip them out?

Feed them mill for a week or so then fry them in garlicky oil and eat them?

Step on them one by one?

Put them on a bird table with a sign saying "Song thrushes this way! Dinner!"

milk, not mill

I gather there is a new beauty treatment in Japan where you allow snails to crawl (slide?) all over your face - perhaps you could open a beauty shop

The little b******s obviously don't have feelings or they wouldn't eat my lovely hostas. They might know I'd be upset.

I don't care if they have feelings. Bags has the right idea plus, in this weather, place them on a hot patio a long way from shelter.

I lob them over next door - it is a field, not neighbours garden. Not entirely convinced they're not homing snails though.

I think snails have strong homing instinct and will return from miles away.
I'd export them to Scotland if I were you! I'm sure Bags would find a home for them.

Humph.
Damned if I'm feeding them milk.
No putting offerings on bird tables/patios round here. The seagulls would have your hand off.
sunseeker, that's disgusting [shocked]
Can't lob them over the garden wall - it's a care home. Doesn't seem fair.
A walk down the beach, then, with a bucket of snails. And a spade.
I will do it for your hostas Kittylester

Stamp on them quickly. And then put the outrageously non-pc blue slug/snail pellets down.

#thingsgetdesperate

If you have a compost bin, they could live harmlessly to a happy old age in there.

Blooming snails and snugs!
I go hunting for them late evening and then put them in the composting bin
where there are nice grass clippings and veg peelings for them to live on until the bin men come and empty it, - then their (the snails, not the bin men!) fate is out of my hands so I need not feel guilty.

Now you're talking. I'm allowed six huge green bagfulls of garden waste every fortnight - should be ample. How do I persuade them to stay in there awaiting collection I wonder? Off to find the bulldog clips......

Our composting bins here have sturdy lids. But I do find that the snails and slugs gradually climb up the inside and confront me whenever I open the lid!
So I just gently shove them back down so they can start their climb all over again.... it stops them getting bored!
But in your case, yes a strong clip of some sort is a good idea. Good luck!

Don't care if they have feelings...ruin the plants in my garden

My hostas have had it

I sincerely hope the little swines do have feelings, then they would be ashamed about what they have done to my lobelias.

Didn't someone on here (*Bags*?) recommend cutting their heads off with gardening scissors....

That might have been just slugs, though.

Aaaaaaaarrrrrgghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

haha glad I'm not the only one whose out there with the salt tub etc...

Put them in the compost heap then put the slug pellets round the edge of the composter!

j08 which political party is against slug pellets??

Don't use slug pellets!! They may harm wildlife and they may be implicated in the demise of the hedgehog population. Nature is a balance and we mess with it at our peril!

Yes, I used to chop slugs in two with scissors. Snails I just used to tread on. We don't have a problem with either in our current garden. I guess there are enough song thrushes eating the snails and hedgehogs eating the slugs.

We've hardly had any slugs this year because we've had the services of a rather large hedgehog - or even two. We know he/she's been around because of the droppings and have seen him in the very late evening. I hate the thought of slug pellets as well, but has anyone tried crushed eggshells around the base of plants? Slugs hate creeping over these.

I once heard a very eminent naturalist (is that the right word?) in a resort in Malaysia explain that when a new hotel was built the site owners went to a lot of trouble to kill all the Mosquitos. The following year they noticed that all the frogs had gone, because they no longer had the mosquitos to feed on. The year after that the Mosquitos were back in force but the frogs were still gone - that way, he said, we get malaria and dengue fever. I think perhaps the numbers of slugs in some areas can be explained by the fact we have destroyed many of their predators. Obviously in Bags' neck of the woods the balance is much healthier.