My pet snail

[wasuslitherin]

I found a wild snail in about October. I kept it in a ice cream bucket and made a screen lid for it. I made sure it was always wet in the bucket, and that it had rotting wood to eat. I "hybranatied" it. Well its spring now so time to set it free. I have had it for 6 months. I took pictures b/f I let it go and will get them on here later. I thought I should share. Has anyone ever had a winter pet?

 

[RATTIE]

That's neat. When I was younger I had a bucket that was maybe 15-20 gallons and I kept snails in it but one day I looked in and all the snails were dead and there was snail bait in it.

 

[Jadie.Glitch]

That's terrible.. someone poisoned your snails?? Wow.

 

[kalena]

When I was like 7 years old, I kept a a little pond turtle that I found over the winter once. Don't remember what kind it was (red-eared slider, etc.). I let him go in the spring, too.

 

[Jadie.Glitch]

I occasionally house Gopher Snakes that we find in the road. In fact, our very first snake was named Snakey, and he was a gopher snake that I found in the parking lot on the first day of my new job on a cold Novembe day.

He was super cold and not moving at all. It was like he was trying to find somewhere to brumate and never made it so he resigned to freezing in the parking lot. Poor thing. I walked into work and said "can I have a box?". They were like "Why?". "Oh, I found a snake in the parking lot". Everyone freaked out and 3 or 4 guys offered to kill it for me. Great first day, right?

I put him securely in the box and let him stay in my car until I was off work. Still cold in there but at least he was away from the elements. Looking back on it I think that's actually what saved him. I didn't take him inside and warm him up immediately. He got the chance to thaw slowly in my car.

Needless to say I had a pet for awhile. We took care of him and released him the following Spring. Then I'm like "I want another snake " and madness ensued, haha.

 

[BloodyBaroness]

We found a baby yellow belly slider turtle in the swimming pool one fall. He stayed with through the winter and we released him in the spring. He was a really nice little fella.

 

[Katie612]

A few years ago I was outside at my parents' house, reading in the grass, and along came a pigeon and landed next to me. I thought it was pretty cool that it came so close to me but then it stayed and stayed and stayed and when I finally got up to go into the house it followed me. I picked it up and took it inside and ended up keeping it in my house for a few weeks before it died. I fed it correctly and took it outside every day to see if it would fly away, but it never did. I guess it just needed a nice last few weeks of life.

 

[windowswisher]

I had a cockatiel fly onto my head in a public swimming pool when I was 4. We kept it. She was a great pet in her youth, but now she's an incredibly old, cranky thing who bites squeals if you come too close to her cage.

Sometimes I think that bird should have maybe just stayed in the wild, but I did save her life and love her regardless.

 

[Roy Munson]

I've kept snakes, slugs, snails, lizards, frogs, newts, etc. over-winter. Almost all survived, but I may have done more harm than good...

 

[VickyChaiTea]

*sighs* I miss my snails. :C I used to have quite a few, they even bred! But I moved and had to release them.

 

[wasuslitherin]

Awsome! I would love to keep all types of animals for winter.
I really like snails. I wish I could breed them, then release the babies.