Comments on: Broken Snail

By: abbey

abbey — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:41:00 +0000

aww poor snail i have two giant affican land snails but they are only babys and one has a bad shell but is now recovering
i hope that you will save more and more snails aww

abbey x

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:04:18 +0000

I remember catching (finding) a small snail once when I was young. I kept it in one of those clear film roll containers, and gave it some water. I showed my grandmother, and the next thing I knew the lid was up and it was gone. As a child, I thought it escaped and lost it in the house somewhere, but thinking about it now, I suspect my grandmother threw it out because it grossed her out.

I hope it did escape though. I had no idea that wild snails could be domesticated like that and live for that long.

By: Alisa

Alisa — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:43:05 +0000

Aw that’s so sad!

When I was little I collected snails in a little tupperware container. I had moss and dirt in there, and every once in a while I would add water. Then I would put fish food in there to grow nastiness for them to eat. They lived for years, until my mom decided to release them. But they were happy snails when they lived with me!

By: Salik

Salik — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:11:02 +0000

touched somewhere…

By: Sophia

Sophia — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:50:39 +0000

Hahaha, I can totally picture Steph screaming. The last (and only( time I played I was the first to shoot Alex (nevermind the fact that it was my only kill all day) but I was so pleased with myself. However, the large bruises on my legs weren’t so fun :p We played down in Hollister once but it was sooo hot, like 35C or more. I wanted to play all summer but we never got around to it… haven’t been able to find a good local outdoor place, most of the places here is speedball but I kind of like hiding in the brush and ambushing people. I bet you guys had a blast! We should go next time I’m up

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:38:08 +0000

I never imagined that I’d feel sorry for a snail either. I think the fact that the snail is so large and prominent from the use of a macro lens, and the way we see his fractured shell, is what makes it so tragic. That he has a recognizable parts to him — a foot, an organ — it almost personifies him, allowing us to identify.

By: Maeko

Maeko — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:00:21 +0000

I used to torture snails. I would find them after a rain, turn them over and throw salt onto the parts of their bodies that looked like gown hems…

I was five.

And I still hate worms. I will torture those any day. Dead snails now make me very sad.

By: Tiana

Tiana — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:34:03 +0000

I didn’t think I would ever feel bad for a snail…but I do…

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:03:03 +0000

awww heartbreaking. Literally

By: Pearl

Pearl — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:18:19 +0000

Poor snaily.