have you ever

[bobtheduck-]

put salt on a slug?, if so when, and did you feel bad afterwards?

[Hellyon]

I gather all the slugs and snails put them in a washing up bowl with vaseline round the top so they can't get out and put it on the garage roof for the blackbirds and the thrush. I don't use slug pellets 'cos I've nursed several hedgehogs who have eaten poisoned slugs - it makes them really poorly. I'f I'm looking after a hedgehog I give the slugs to them.
And no, I don't feel guilty about it, there's hundreds of them in my garden

[helliebobs]

I do it quite frequently actually, it's the only way. It's not as much fun as getting the magnifying glass out on a really hot sunny day though and watching them pop ;)

[Katie~77]

I did when I was little. I feel sooooooooo bad about it now :-( x

[ALLO5775]

no never felt bad

[nutgoneflake]

My sister and I caught a fly in my little Sindy picnic hamper once, and shook it every now and then to pi$$ it off, then we'd dare each other to put our ears as close to the lid as we could. There was a tiny gap, so the buzzing was quite scarily loud. We did that for a whole long car trip, and I felt awful afterwards. We ended up too scared to let it out aswell, so it probably died in there, swearing revenge.

[geordie87]

Not a slug,but while cleaning the windows last week stepped back and stood on a snail! the crunching noise (while wearing flip-flops!) made me nearly vomit-but within minutes the birds had swooped and there was nothing left! yuk!

[pastafreak]

Salted the slugs in my mum's rockery all the time when I was small...I was fascinated by them. I grew up in the States where we had Japanese Beetles...they attack rose bushes. I used to collect as many as i could in jam jars and then pour oil on them and spend hours watching the poor things squirm....am suffering delayed guilt now!! would still salt slugs now...yuck!!.....but not snails,since when my daughter was small she kept them as pets. Starting with the garden variety and graduating to giant African Land snails!

[stewey]

Well, we do seem to have a collection of torturous sickos slithering around here tonight don't we?