Zen Snails

A couple of days ago, Troy was out in the garden with my wife, and he came inside with two tiny garden snails.  He wanted to keep them as pets, so I put them in a cup with a lid, and he threw in some leaves and a tomato (because he saw snails eating a tomato in the Turbo movie).  I assumed we'd keep them for a few hours and then set them loose in the garden again, but he wanted to keep them until the next day to show his tutor.  But one day turned into three, and he didn't seem to want to set them free, so we stopped at the pet store today to buy them a terrarium.  We also bought them some decorations from the aquarium department.  Troy wanted to buy them pirate stuff, but I talked him into some Stonehenge arches to give it more of a Zen-like feel.

The two snails, now named Squirmy and Blobby, loved the new digs (sarcasm implied).  They both headed to the darkest part of the terrarium and hid for the rest of the night.  Oh well, we can always repurpose it for some other garden "acquisition" in the future, if the snails don't work out.