This is such a kind and gentle thing to do. They might love you, a human, but it would likely be upsetting and/or triggering to them to encounter mankind again. That poor sweet little peligot. Poor Rock Boy; poor Nails, to hear his friend and understand what’s happened to him…I would like to believe that I would side with the peligots. We have a duty to stand up for those who need our protection. I think you did the right thing, OP.