One of my pet Achatina landsnails died last week and I hve put it in a 'safe' place in the garden to clean it out this week. Yesterday when I wanted to do that, it was gone!

I am suspecting our new puppy (Jack Russel) had taken it ... he is munching away on the Helix aspersa....

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Not a pet, but...

I found a nice, large Melongena corona that stubbornly refused to be
extracted from the shell and thought I'd try putting it on an anthill (you
hear this advice all the time). Knowing I have raccoons on my property, and
having lost a helmet operculum to one (it just wanted to eat the animal and
happened to lose the operc in the process), I thought how to keep the coons
from walking away with the shell. There was a great ant mound in the yard
just outside my office window so I put the shell there under a plastic milk
carton. I could see the milk carton and the shell nicely from the computer
desk.

The next day I saw the milk carton slowly moving across the yard...

Saved it just in time.

Peggy

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