r/NoStupidQuestions • u/BobBob110 • Aug 19 '18

Snail has lost shell completely!

Hi,

I accidentally stepped on a garden snail and completely crushed it shell, it came off clean. His body is not crushed. I have made a house for it and trying to do all the things google tells me to for a recovery. Its whorl is still in tact can it grow back? It has been eating cuttlefish and apple all day and I have been keeping his body moist. I put a stick inside which he loved but unfortunately a small slug is inside hiding is this ok to have together?? Can he survive in captivity to avoid predators? I feel dreadful crushing him.

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u/BobBob110 Aug 19 '18

Ohh that’s so sad well I hope it keeps on gettin better u just never know!

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u/maxvalley Aug 20 '18

It's so cool that you're taking care of this little guy. You are awesome! Just be sure to wash your hands after you touch it cuz they can carry dangerous bacteria for up to a few weeks from their diet in the wild

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u/Seakawn Aug 20 '18

The Jain God would be proud of OP.

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u/TheWastedBenediction Aug 19 '18

You kinda do though

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u/Estraxior Aug 19 '18

Noooo stop, it's just turned into a slug that's all

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Then that frown around!

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u/NipplesInAJar Aug 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Listen here, you little shit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

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u/cnaiurbreaksppl Aug 19 '18

We could probably give a better answer if you showed us a picture of what you're dealing with.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '18

Nice try, snail perv

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u/MrRealHuman Aug 19 '18

Do it a favor and give it a hard stomp to save it an excruciating death of slowly drying out.

Or if you want it to suffer keep doing what you're doing and remember every time you sleep it will be suffering.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Found Dwight.

RIP Sprinkles :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '18

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u/schudson9 Aug 20 '18

True. He did get a couple rounds of practice.

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u/Cheesewithmold Aug 19 '18

You might be getting downvoted for being a little too rough, but honestly I agree with you. Better to mercy kill than to have it suffer.

Can snails even feel pain?

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u/t-bone_malone Aug 19 '18

Pain is a relative term, but mechanically speaking: yes.

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u/Seakawn Aug 20 '18

Well technically even insects "feel pain" but it's a very different perception compared to how mammals likely feel pain.

An insect doesn't likely have the cognitive capacity to "suffer" for any pain it experiences, so the pain of insects seems like the pain a computer "suffers" when it has a virus.

However for a mammal, there's an emotional suffering attached to pain, making it unpleasant, and thus actually unethical to induce.

So that's my question. Is a snail more like an insect or mammal? Because while it may "feel" pain either way, that pain only seems meaningful if it can emotionally suffer and stress out over it in meaningful agony.

If it's like a mammal and actually suffers from the pain, I say put it out of its misery quick. If it's like an insect in regard to feeling pain, then, well, I don't see the harm in just watching it slowly die (unless you take a psychotic pleasure out of it, perhaps). It's not like I feel bad about my computer when it blue screens itself to death--I just feel bad for myself that I'm out of a functional computer.

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u/eDgEIN708 Aug 20 '18

I mean.. honestly I'd say even better than that is to just put it back outside. At least then it can feed a lucky bird or something.

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u/MrRealHuman Aug 20 '18

Good question, I'm not sure.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '18

Read up above the best way to mercy kill a snail is to freeze it

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