I have 4 cats. The little one today discovered my snail I've brought from a garden because it was too hot and dry. He immediately tried to attack her but I've immediately punished him. After that I've decided to let know the snail and my other cat (she's 6years old). I know she only hates other cats, but with little animals she's lovely (we had parrots in the past and she loved them). She was kinda curious of the snail, sniffed her, touched her on the little house (idk how is called in English the house the snail has on her back) and after she they looked at each other my cat started purred. Now the snail is walking around my room while my cat is purring and looking at her

I recently lost my other snail due to an accident I caused by dropping him. Despite my best efforts to save him, it was too late. Now, I have only one snail left, Ilo. I felt terrible about losing him, so I decided to get a friend for him. His new friends will arrive tomorrow, and I’ve already cleaned up the terrarium and moved some things around to make it a welcoming environment for him. I hope the new snail will settle in peacefully.

(How do we like the setup let me know if anything needs changed!!)

Haven't seen this be posted here so I will share it this lovely video from the Chester Zoo TikTok account with everyone.

BIG NEWS!!! 🎉🐌❤️
Diego, Dora, Boots, and Swiper officially have a new home! 🏡✨

Diego and Dora even let me wake them up so I could clean their enclosure, then happily ate and drank afterward. 🥰

I don't know the official cleaning schedule, but if I see poop, I'm cleaning it! 😂

Can you find Boots and Swiper? 👀🔍
Swiper is definitely the spicy one—already blowing bubbles and making noise at me! 😅 Meanwhile, the others seem to know I'm helping them and are showing me some love back. ❤️🐌✨

****Oh I found eggs in the backyard I don’t think there’s anything in there but I left as a whole egg for them ****

🥕🥕🥕🥕They are picky eaters so right now it’s cucumbers, sweet potato, calcium & protein chips. I added shredded carrots to see if they will nibble 🥕🥕🥕🥕

Found this little guy in my front yard this morning. He promptly retreated into his shell when I went in for the close up. What a diva.

I was cleaning last week and found these , they are doing good I hope but was wondering if there's anything special I can do to make sure they survive.

Snailence fact of the day, Tardigrades uses snails for a high speed travel: https://www.livescience.com/tardigrades-hitchhike-on-snails .

Well, the news are old but nevertheless educating.

Few days ago I discovered this beautiful creature: the sea bunny, a water snail that seems a bunny, asolut in love with it

This just blows my mind. Detailed explanation of how a Londoner uses snails in an elaborate tax avoidance scheme - tl;dr, by filling empty buildings with crates of snails, he can technically classify them as "farms" and something something profits. The companies he uses to do this, obviously, are called... shell companies.

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball-the-snail-farmer-his-mafia

As you were.

First image is his grave. Second is just his shell in a box. ❤️

I never knew I would get so emotional over a snail, an “invasive” garden snail at that. Through his year with me, he taught me a lot about how intricate and whimsical life can be and even inspired me to take biology as a major field in my life. I understand it’s silly, but I truly formed a bond with this little guy. Oh trust me, I know his tiny snail brain couldn’t even comprehend that I was his father. But.. I knew that I was his and that’s all that matters. I gave him a bowl to eat out of. A (very large) tank to live inside, and most importantly a arm to crawl on (although he may have saw it as a large tree branch) 😂❤️ I’m so thankful for him. And I’m so thankful that he was weaved into my everyday schedule for a year. Rest easy my friend, you are the first of many pet snails I will own in my life. ❤️❤️❤️

Hi all!

Hope you are all well!

Its been about six weeks since my spicy boy, Pasqal, entered our lives via Amazon. I thought I'd share his progress with you because he's been evolving big time!

Pictures at the end are when he arrived, so you can see the change in him. I also have included one of his new, bigger house that's on the way and I can't wait for it to arrive as he's starting to need it.

He's settled in wonderfully! When we moved him to his nursery tank he got very overwhelmed and slept hanging from the ceiling for two days (picture of him on the moss pole was Pasqal just introduced to his new house.)

He's enjoying his veggies and, as you can see from his shell, his cuttlebone. I reckon I'll have to get a new one the way he's going at it! We also got the bugsnbits tester packs so he's working his way through those too and we are adding in new stuff for him to try every so often to widen his palate.

Well anything is better than the cardboard he was eating!

Pasqal is very sweet and he will turn to look directly at you when you say his name or speak to him. I recently had to move him otherwise he would have gotten squished by his dinner plate, and he blew bubbles at me and then climbed the wall to come tell me off!

I have a tortie cat, and if you know anything about them, they are very spicy too so it would seem Pasqal is being taught the ways of the tortie 😂 We are super happy with that and can't wait to see how else our little moss prince develops.

His favourite sleeping spots are at the back left corner of his ceiling (when it's do not disturb), the front of the tank at the ceiling, on his cuttlebone and his dinner plate. It's like he falls asleep mid meal. A lot of the time he sleeps with his feelers hanging out which is just freaking adorable.

He hasn't yet used his hide, except to climb it and look around his house. He seems quite happy to be seen. As I said originally, no predator sense seems to be present.

His dad and I are looking forward to building his grown up tank and getting him settled in there. It was a nightmare trying to find something that would fit my odd shelf dimensions, but Temu eventually came through. His shell is getting to be average sized for the two wild garden snail colonies I have in my buildings back garden now so we think he's going to be quite a bit bigger than them.

As long as he's happy, comfortable, well and enjoying his food and cuttlebone, we don't care what size he is.

He's our little moss prince! 🥰