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African Land Snails...
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I have rehomed 2 snails!!! I am really pleased.. at least 2 little slimy lives will be better.. hopefully a couple more will find happiness before Monday too!
I do intend being very honest with school and saying I thought it would help them and improve matters for the snails.. I will make a small donation to the school fund as payment for them which is fair I think given the actual snails were free! courtesy of the other 2! lolLB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
Lisa.. I may give them a few fishy flakes too if they like those.. I swear they have grown in a week!!!
My 16 y/o is begging to keep one but I know we would wake up with one stuck to our faces because it escaped lolLB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
Lisa.. I may give them a few fishy flakes too if they like those.. I swear they have grown in a week!!!
My 16 y/o is begging to keep one but I know we would wake up with one stuck to our faces because it escaped lol
Lol
When I was still a Vallette I got stick insects from school (and I, and they DID know how to care for them).
The laid lots of eggs which I kept in a stone jar with a perforated clingfilm lid by my bedroom radiator - when the babies (about a centimetre long, as I recall), hatched they climbed up to the clingfilm whereupon I transferred them to their permament home.
Anyway one day my middle sister (not a huge pet lover, then and now, unlike me and my littlest sister) was heard to SCREAM. In her bedroom, on the wall was a FULL GROWN 10cm long bright green stick insect - doing the 'vibrating' thing and close to her bed.
Funnily enough she seemed unconvinced by my insistence that 'it isn't one of mine' - now it was NOT one I had ever seen and I certainly hadn't lost one - all I can think is that it was an escaped baby which had thrived on the houseplants:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
Janice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0 -
I have rehomed 2 snails!!! I am really pleased.. at least 2 little slimy lives will be better.. hopefully a couple more will find happiness before Monday too!
I do intend being very honest with school and saying I thought it would help them and improve matters for the snails.. I will make a small donation to the school fund as payment for them which is fair I think given the actual snails were free! courtesy of the other 2! lol
They ought to be paying YOU for all the things you have got for them.I do hope you point out that they should be kept in better conditions.0 -
I now have homes for 8!!!! I fear the small donation to school funds may need to increase lol.. they can provide a better home for the ones they are keeping with the money!LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0
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In their new home!!LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
They look a lot happier now, well done you! :T :T :A“You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”0
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Is this the new home the school have provided or the ones you gave to more caring owners? What did the school say when you took the others back?0
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Is this the new home the school have provided or the ones you gave to more caring owners? What did the school say when you took the others back?
These are the ones gone to caring homes.. my sister has these ones.. she has been sat looking at them all night burying themselves.. slithering about and eating..
The school said 'oh really!! we didn't know how many there were to start with.' .. Good job none escaped eh?!LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
I am speaking to the head tomorrow about another matter and bringing up their care. I think discussing this in person is a better policy.. it isn't teaching the children anything positive about caring for a vulnerable living creature. I feel all St Francis-like
LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0
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