OK then.
The beery snails were the funniest. If you set out the saucer with a tablespoon of beer in the middle, then plonked down the snails, they'd make a surprisingly fast beeline for the booze.

They'd crowd around it, dipping their heads down to drink, exactly like a herd of wildebeest at a watering hole.

Afterwards they'd slide erratically around the saucer and crash slowly into each other before apparently passing out halfway in and halfway out of their shells.

When I fed them a chip they'd attack it enthusiastically. If several were eating it at the same time, they could bore a hole right through it and start eating the other side, shouving their mates slowly but firmly out of the way.

Snails are nosy. If you keep them in a jar with breathing holes punched in the lid, they will stick their heads out, stretch their necks long and look around at the outside world.

They also break out of any container that's not tough enough and escape. If you patch up a hole in a plastic jar with paper, the snails will eat a hole in it and piss off while you're asleep, and you'll wake up to see them sneaking across the ceiling.

Ah, the joys of snail-keeping. Makes me quite slimesick.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 21:51, Reply)