THE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING ---
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We chose this book as we also throughout many long years have had lovely opportunities to observe and become what we consider close friends with our Snail Folk in our various many Gardens and which come to us from elsewhere as well, an we also have enjoyed watching their ways for themselves, with the mates and children, and social behaviours, their food choices and quiet meditative ways and visualization conversations and the infrequent audible sounds for us for specific circumstances and we really have a serious appreciation and honor now tor Snails and purposefully do not step on them and do not allow any form of snail bait in our gardens, as we have come to honor our Garden Snails as equal lovely spiritual beings in Snail Suits with many Spiritual Animal Guide Lessons and Messages for us as we feel they quietly and gently and affectionately come to us and allow us to pet the underside of their one foot with our dampened fingers and sometimes share a lettuce leaf or other vegetation with them, we have enjoyed many unforgettable and uniquely gifted experiences with these beings in tiny Snail Suits with whom we share our Gardens and the Universe and so we feel some level of kinship with the author's own experiences and resulting attitudes and honorings of these gentle very beautiful and sensitive lovely beings. For this, WE LOVE THIS BOOK and have gifted it also to Our Favorite Families and Friends who have come to share their similar experiences and now also honor their Garden Snails as well in their lives. We believe this Book is a nice rare find and are pleased Amazon is carrying this book and we now have it included nicely in all of our libraries. Thank you, Amazon. Blessings.
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I found a wad of animal fur baked into these crackers. Fortunately, I opened the bag and poured it out in a bowl before eating any. There were 5 crackers stuck together with a mass of animal fur - looks like a mouse. Soooo disgusting.
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it sounds good, but these overly red gel pieces are not eaten by my aquatic turtles, and they eat everything.  I was also put off by the artificially red color.  I will make my own next time.
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Arrived well packed. The seller apparently delayed shipping due to the extreme cold which was very thoughtful and worked since they snails all survived. And have thrived. When you get tired of the snails, put a lettuce leaf on the bottom of the tank with a rock holding it down and wait an hour or so. Remove and flush the snails that are devouring the lettuce. Easy population control. They are just gorgeous creatures though. They have odd behaviors sometimes which my nine year old loves. I've seen them daisy chain up to four snails at once latching onto another's shell.
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Periodically, there is some slight mechanical noise in the recording, which honestly sounds like a pump or generator in the distance. That, plus the rooster crowing (which is indeed in there), would suggest that someone actually LIVES in these "deep woods". That said, not a terrible recording overall. Bird song can get loud, but again, that's typical. Sounds about what you'd get if you wandered into some forest without knowing that someone lives in it. :)
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If you need any reasons whatsoever to order this combo pack, I have the testimony for you.

Worried that the snails won't arrive alive and well? DON'T! Seriously, don't. I ordered the pack on August 21st, and received them on the 24th.
I, however, assumed they would arrive on the 29th and didn't track the shipment, so they sat in my apartment's main office for 5 days. I figured they were good as dead.

This morning, after 7.. SEVEN days of shipping (these things are mini tanks!), I finally opened my snail package. All 8 of them were alive and well!

My next mistake was that I didn't even acclimate, but now I'm watching 8 exotic looking snails zoom around my tank, so I guess these guys can forgive me after all.

Thanks for the great product, couldn't be happier!
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fattening , addicting, oh how i wish these succulent fish would just die a horrible death!
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Arrived earlier than I thought. Very well packaged. Came with some snail food and a floating plant. All the snails alive and well. Though they are dark and do not much look like the snail in the advertised picture. I attribute this to them being young.
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My dog went from eating like the Flash to eating like a snail. You can pour food in her bowl and she would be done by the time you turned your back. Now she takes 6-12 minutes to eat her food using this bowl. This was the best bowl I have ever purchased. It helps that there were over 4000 reviews on this thing. I would suggest this bowl to anyone and everyone who has a fast eating dog.
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In a blind taste test, a bowl of the local mega pet mart guinea pig food and a bowl of Small Pet Select food was plaecd in Mr. Speckles' cage. The Small Pet Select pettets were GONE and he refused to eat the mega pet mart pellets.  Soon as his empty bowl of Small Pet Select pellets was refilled, he stopeed wheeking and started bubbling and purring.

Thier fresh Tommothy Hay is also outstanding.

If you truly love your guinea pig, you will buy these pellets
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Looks like the mice love to eat and defecate right next to the pouches. Lovely.
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I don't normally write reviews, but this product is not what it seems. Doesn't look anything like the image, even after carefully tending to it for over a month. Worse however is the snails...its become an infestation that I can't seem to purge despite tearing down my tank, boiling the substrate, and rebuilding. These critters will not stop. If you're looking for a great plant, shop somewhere else.
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I've used Chamomile Flowers forever. The taste of this was a bit different. The price is about $3 less then the place I usually ordered from so I gave it a try. Perhaps this is to organic for me since I found a snail in it! See picture!
I won't be ordering this again.
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This food is like it has been crushed. It is very fine pieces that sink to the bottom rather quickly, before my fish can eat it.
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Elizabeth Tova Bailey was struck down by a mystery illness which left her bedridden. A friend brought her a violet, with a passenger - a small snail. This book is the story of that snail's life, and the things the author learned about snails as she got to know her small friend.

I think this is a bit of a marmite book. If reading about a snail's sex life, for example, sounds like something you'd only do on pain of death, this is probably one to avoid. It's slow, gentle, informative, contemplative; Tova Bailey clearly did masses of research on snails, and there are masses of fascinating facts to be learned. For someone like me, who is interested in stuff like this, it was engrossing, if slightly disgusting at times... I'm no big fan of snails, and sometimes when talk of slime got too much I had to put the book down! I certainly have more respect for and interest in them now than I did when I started, though.

It's also a fascinating insight into chronic, crippling illness. For those who have suffered in similar ways, as I have, it's a comfort to know "it's not just me", and I think this book will give those who've never been chronically ill a little insight into what it is like being confined to a house, a room, or even a bed for long stretches of time.

Overall, I wouldn't call this a must-read, and it's definitely one to "look inside" before purchasing, but personally I enjoyed it. It was a book I dipped into over the course of several months. The writing style is gorgeous, the snippets from poetry and scientific books are apt, and the information is really interesting.
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Got 14 instead of 12 and there was even eggs in the bag! There were no dead snails. It has been 5 days and they look great in my tank. I now have tons of empty snail shells in my tank. They are also pretty to look at.

Warning: Sometimes your assassin snails will be sitting still for a long time and look like they might be dead. I almost threw out 4 snails who looked like this. But I waited a day and they moved on. I think they were just digesting and they don't move after eating.
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This book is a treasure. "Beautiful," says Edward O. Wilson. The text by Elisabeth Tova Bailey, illustrations by Kathy Bray and book design by Anne Winslow all show tremendous care and love for this little subject, the woodland snail.

Bailey was bedridden and extremely debilitated during part of an illness that has spanned almost two decades, resulting from an unknown pathogen that apparently caused acquired mitochondrial disease, and followed by harmful side effects of a drug that was later withdrawn from the market. While bedridden, she received a gift of a native woodland snail in a potted field violet from a good friend.

The snail quickly became the focal point of Bailey's world, as she watched it glide down the side of the terra-cotta pot, gently waving its tentacles, exploring the dish under the pot, and beyond--always returning to sleep under a violet leaf in the pot by the following morning. The snail's nocturnal adventures soon explained the square holes in nearby papers, and prompted Bailey to offer real food--withered cut flowers at first--which, Bailey discovered, she could hear the snail eating.

This short but deep and poignant book continues to explore the life of the woodland snail, through Bailey's acute observations and later reading; and it observes how the slow, purposeful life of the snail (and of the author) contrasts with the hectic pace of the lives of Bailey's human visitors. "My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had," writes Bailey.

Readers, like Bailey, learn fascinating details about the woodland snail as this book progresses. When Bailey's caregiver added a little garden soil to the pot to cover the violet roots, "The snail was not pleased." It avoided the garden soil, sleeping on top of a violet leaf instead of under--until the friend replaced the garden soil with woodland humus, and the snail resumed its sleeping place under the leaf. The snail's sensitivity to its environment is like Bailey's, as her illness left her extremely sensitive, especially to toxic substances in the environment.

As Bailey learns more about the snail, she has an aquarium landscaped with native plants, mosses, lichens, bark. "It was a world fit for a snail, and it was a welcome sight for my own eyes as well." The snail's "...tentacles quivered with interest and it set off to investigate..." Bailey learns from scientific texts and from naturalists' writings about snails' spiral shells, their slime, their evolution, diversity and movement around the world, their brain, memory, intellect and communication, romance and reproduction.

This little book, perhaps the most exquisite I've read in years, is top on my list of holiday gifts for those who love clear, concise, powerful and beautiful--often humorous--nature writing and insights into animal (including human) behavior. It heightened my appreciation for the life around me.