Post by celticcraftress on Jul 1, 2006 3:34:13 GMT
Well, ive put this off for AGES because...in all honesty I haven't started my life yet to share. But hey...I accadentaly wrote one on the other forum, so i'll do something simular here. Here it goes...
As a little kid, I loved snails. I would be so thrilled finding them, even with crayfish, tiny minnows and other interesting finds in our yard/garden and the creek running through it. At one point I had a pet snail, well, kind of. He lived in the kitchen near the sink, and never left, which was great really. I remember coming home to see him. I don't remember what happened to him, but it was a great time. After a while, snails got scarce, and the fanism fadded as the hoop-la of growing up started. >Well, some years later, I met my darling boyfriend John. After chatting with him for about a year, I went to visit him for about 4 weeks. The next summer (last summer) I went to visit him again, that time for 3 months straight. It was the greatest time of my life, and when I decided I wanted to live in Scotland with him. Scotland really became my paradise, and I knew it was true because I made sure I "lived" there by doing chores and avoiding tourist-like activities. >Now this is funny, for some reason I remember going on a big mission to find snails there. I guess the crazyness over them never died after all! Sure enough, some were found (of course, Scotland has enough rain to be a snail paradise) and I was shocked. They wern't the plain, blackish ones I found as a little kid. They were BEAUTIFUL! They were a chestnut brown with beautiful patterns on the shell, and one of them was 10x bigger then the snails I ever found! I even found a yellow one! I coulden't believe a yellow snail existed! Obviously I didn't find the snail forums yet.
Well, bad move I know, but I took them with me and they lived in an empty 2 litre with fruit and veggies to eat until I could buy a little tommy tank for them at a pet shop. Hehe...go figure my "holiday" money went to snails! I tried to find more information on how to care for them with google, but only managed to find a page with general information. I swear though, despite the lack of knowledge on my part, I spoiled those snails SO rotten. They slept most of the time because I didn't have proper humidity (don't kill me, I didn't know yet!) so I would wake them up once a day to make sure they knew their dinner was there. I knew iceburg wasn't a good call with experience from other pets, and gave them a healthy salad mix, and offered treats as well. I remember me and John pigging out on cherries and me thinking to give them one, and they did have a few nibbles.
I loved them so much, I remember watching them crawl to the food bowl I cut for them from a small soda bottle and the scene reminding me of little cattle around a trough. I had one snail who was my brave one, nothing scared him! I would do "snail kisses" where I could VERY gently tap him to my nose, barley startled him. I even talked John into taking a snail kiss, what a great boyfriend I have. ;D
Well...I think the downfall came when I saved a snail John noticed on the sidewalk crushed. I was so upset I cried over this little snail, even tried putting an ointment on the cracks of his shell (yea I know, again, give me a break!) and he did heal up. I did notice these little white things, they even got trapped inside his shell when he sealed himself up (I was scared he was dead, but nope!) when I had to return to the states, I put him with the rest of my snails (probably a bad move) and they were left to my boyfriends care. He suggested letting them go, but I just didn't have the heart, I had grown too attatched to them. The stories were confusing, but I guess they died, and I think it was those little bugs I had seen. I didn't know what they were at the time and can't remember enough of them to ID them.
Well...sad ending to a great time in Scotland...but some months after I had to leave Scotland I discovered Pet Snails and this forum. Ive made friends, and learned A LOT about snail care. It's been great! Ive been mesmerized by all the beautiful exotic snails and the GALS...but believe it or not, my heart is still with the tiny snails, especialy those plain common ones you find in the garden. I don't know why, they just bring me tranquility. I supose it's a subconsious feeling of being a child again, as buying exotic snails is more adult.
Well, that's my snail bio really! I am moving to Scotland as soon as I can, there have been major delayes but I am still going! For sure before August 14th, my boyfriends birthday. Apparently my boyfriends mum isn't the biggest fan of snails, so me and John have compromised that I would keep just one terrarium of snails until we have a home of our own. Kevin has some lovely snails saved for me, so im absolutely thrilled to be adopting them soon! John has also promised a beautiful 10 gallon aquarium, and you know what that means...aquatic snails!! hehe. When we have a house of our own, naturaly I will have a few more critters and certainly more snails, but this one snail species and the little aquarium will keep me sane in the mean time.
I swear, waiting is very hard, and im missing my boyfriend more then you can imagine. But when I am back, I can finally start my life. Well, more so when I get my citizenship, but you get the idea! I have so many wonderful projects I want to start. I love growing things as well as raising things, and love the idea of growing my own house plants and even edible mushrooms! I would love to grow ornamental glowing mushrooms, but ive not seen them available yet. I also love making things myself, like bars of soap, incense, even little desktop fountains. If I decide to make things often, ive considered selling them on Ebay occasionaly. When I have my citizenship, the companion animal I want to adopt is a very young Muntjac fawn (male) to bottle feed and raise up. They make great pets! In the mean time, John will let me adopt a bantam chicken as a pet (also excellent pets) but suggests we wait until we have a house of our own, and I agree (as hard as THAT is!). When we have a house of our own I am also going to adopt my first Tiger baby, and another Tiger baby the next time they become available from an unrelated parent in case I get Tiger babies myself! ;D Aside my 10 gallon freshwater aquarium for my pretty brigs, I want to start a little tiny Hawaii red shrimp aquarium, and maybe when I have my citizenship adopt a couple of seahorses (though that could certainly change as circiumstances change with breeders). I hope to continue with Karate, and especially the Bo (staff) as I adore it. And of course, I will be crossing my fingers my future snails lay me eggs so I can enjoy doing one of my favorite things in the WHOLE world...(aside being with my boyfriend! haha) raising baby animals.
All and all, I am a very ambitious person, and can set (and accomplish) extrordinary things with amazing dedication and hard work. But...in contrast, I am also very sensitive, and like my life to be as tranquil and peaceful as possible. That's why (and many appologies to any victoms of this) I tend to back out of amazing ideas after going overboard with exitement over them. I strive to limit myself to keep things simple, and accomplish a sense of peace of mind. I also exercise, try to eat right, do martial arts, apply Feng Shui where it makes sense, read up on natural healing, and lots of fun stuff like that. Im not obsessive mind you as you might think! I just strive to make life great and happy, and enjoy learning of different techniques from all sources for accomplishing it. At the end of the day, I create my own happiness for me and those around me, and what I read simply gives me fab ideas. ;D
So...although I have this amazing idea for building a big beautiful snail viv for all the tiny snails out there, I might back out and just keep the local garden snails available + a couple of exotics to give me that peace of mind. And if I should end up collecting enough tiny exotic and native snails to need that viv, I want them all to be given to me with love instead of me going out shopping. ;D I swear, I have the same weakness as everyone here though, such beautiful snails, so tempting! Hopefuly the snails I get from Kevin + being back with my boyfriend will ease my Gotta-Have impulse so I don't become overstocked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my Bio, I know it was a bit long. But hopefuly it makes sense why I didn't write sooner.
As a little kid, I loved snails. I would be so thrilled finding them, even with crayfish, tiny minnows and other interesting finds in our yard/garden and the creek running through it. At one point I had a pet snail, well, kind of. He lived in the kitchen near the sink, and never left, which was great really. I remember coming home to see him. I don't remember what happened to him, but it was a great time. After a while, snails got scarce, and the fanism fadded as the hoop-la of growing up started. >Well, some years later, I met my darling boyfriend John. After chatting with him for about a year, I went to visit him for about 4 weeks. The next summer (last summer) I went to visit him again, that time for 3 months straight. It was the greatest time of my life, and when I decided I wanted to live in Scotland with him. Scotland really became my paradise, and I knew it was true because I made sure I "lived" there by doing chores and avoiding tourist-like activities. >Now this is funny, for some reason I remember going on a big mission to find snails there. I guess the crazyness over them never died after all! Sure enough, some were found (of course, Scotland has enough rain to be a snail paradise) and I was shocked. They wern't the plain, blackish ones I found as a little kid. They were BEAUTIFUL! They were a chestnut brown with beautiful patterns on the shell, and one of them was 10x bigger then the snails I ever found! I even found a yellow one! I coulden't believe a yellow snail existed! Obviously I didn't find the snail forums yet.
Well, bad move I know, but I took them with me and they lived in an empty 2 litre with fruit and veggies to eat until I could buy a little tommy tank for them at a pet shop. Hehe...go figure my "holiday" money went to snails! I tried to find more information on how to care for them with google, but only managed to find a page with general information. I swear though, despite the lack of knowledge on my part, I spoiled those snails SO rotten. They slept most of the time because I didn't have proper humidity (don't kill me, I didn't know yet!) so I would wake them up once a day to make sure they knew their dinner was there. I knew iceburg wasn't a good call with experience from other pets, and gave them a healthy salad mix, and offered treats as well. I remember me and John pigging out on cherries and me thinking to give them one, and they did have a few nibbles.
I loved them so much, I remember watching them crawl to the food bowl I cut for them from a small soda bottle and the scene reminding me of little cattle around a trough. I had one snail who was my brave one, nothing scared him! I would do "snail kisses" where I could VERY gently tap him to my nose, barley startled him. I even talked John into taking a snail kiss, what a great boyfriend I have. ;DWell...I think the downfall came when I saved a snail John noticed on the sidewalk crushed. I was so upset I cried over this little snail, even tried putting an ointment on the cracks of his shell (yea I know, again, give me a break!) and he did heal up. I did notice these little white things, they even got trapped inside his shell when he sealed himself up (I was scared he was dead, but nope!) when I had to return to the states, I put him with the rest of my snails (probably a bad move) and they were left to my boyfriends care. He suggested letting them go, but I just didn't have the heart, I had grown too attatched to them. The stories were confusing, but I guess they died, and I think it was those little bugs I had seen. I didn't know what they were at the time and can't remember enough of them to ID them.
Well...sad ending to a great time in Scotland...but some months after I had to leave Scotland I discovered Pet Snails and this forum. Ive made friends, and learned A LOT about snail care. It's been great! Ive been mesmerized by all the beautiful exotic snails and the GALS...but believe it or not, my heart is still with the tiny snails, especialy those plain common ones you find in the garden. I don't know why, they just bring me tranquility. I supose it's a subconsious feeling of being a child again, as buying exotic snails is more adult.
Well, that's my snail bio really! I am moving to Scotland as soon as I can, there have been major delayes but I am still going! For sure before August 14th, my boyfriends birthday. Apparently my boyfriends mum isn't the biggest fan of snails, so me and John have compromised that I would keep just one terrarium of snails until we have a home of our own. Kevin has some lovely snails saved for me, so im absolutely thrilled to be adopting them soon! John has also promised a beautiful 10 gallon aquarium, and you know what that means...aquatic snails!! hehe. When we have a house of our own, naturaly I will have a few more critters and certainly more snails, but this one snail species and the little aquarium will keep me sane in the mean time.
I swear, waiting is very hard, and im missing my boyfriend more then you can imagine. But when I am back, I can finally start my life. Well, more so when I get my citizenship, but you get the idea! I have so many wonderful projects I want to start. I love growing things as well as raising things, and love the idea of growing my own house plants and even edible mushrooms! I would love to grow ornamental glowing mushrooms, but ive not seen them available yet. I also love making things myself, like bars of soap, incense, even little desktop fountains. If I decide to make things often, ive considered selling them on Ebay occasionaly. When I have my citizenship, the companion animal I want to adopt is a very young Muntjac fawn (male) to bottle feed and raise up. They make great pets! In the mean time, John will let me adopt a bantam chicken as a pet (also excellent pets) but suggests we wait until we have a house of our own, and I agree (as hard as THAT is!). When we have a house of our own I am also going to adopt my first Tiger baby, and another Tiger baby the next time they become available from an unrelated parent in case I get Tiger babies myself! ;D Aside my 10 gallon freshwater aquarium for my pretty brigs, I want to start a little tiny Hawaii red shrimp aquarium, and maybe when I have my citizenship adopt a couple of seahorses (though that could certainly change as circiumstances change with breeders). I hope to continue with Karate, and especially the Bo (staff) as I adore it. And of course, I will be crossing my fingers my future snails lay me eggs so I can enjoy doing one of my favorite things in the WHOLE world...(aside being with my boyfriend! haha) raising baby animals.
All and all, I am a very ambitious person, and can set (and accomplish) extrordinary things with amazing dedication and hard work. But...in contrast, I am also very sensitive, and like my life to be as tranquil and peaceful as possible. That's why (and many appologies to any victoms of this) I tend to back out of amazing ideas after going overboard with exitement over them. I strive to limit myself to keep things simple, and accomplish a sense of peace of mind. I also exercise, try to eat right, do martial arts, apply Feng Shui where it makes sense, read up on natural healing, and lots of fun stuff like that. Im not obsessive mind you as you might think! I just strive to make life great and happy, and enjoy learning of different techniques from all sources for accomplishing it. At the end of the day, I create my own happiness for me and those around me, and what I read simply gives me fab ideas. ;D
So...although I have this amazing idea for building a big beautiful snail viv for all the tiny snails out there, I might back out and just keep the local garden snails available + a couple of exotics to give me that peace of mind. And if I should end up collecting enough tiny exotic and native snails to need that viv, I want them all to be given to me with love instead of me going out shopping. ;D I swear, I have the same weakness as everyone here though, such beautiful snails, so tempting! Hopefuly the snails I get from Kevin + being back with my boyfriend will ease my Gotta-Have impulse so I don't become overstocked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my Bio, I know it was a bit long. But hopefuly it makes sense why I didn't write sooner.
