Hooray for more articles!

It appears that my pictures of Buttercup in her little stegosaurus cozy and the matching snail cozy have recently made their rounds on the Internet. How fun! 

Here are the links to the articles:

http://grist.org/list/snails-wearing-sweaters-might-just-be-the-best-thing-ever/

http://www.sciencedump.com/content/who-wouldnt-giggle-about-snail-cozy

http://q13fox.com/2014/03/04/washington-woman-knits-cozies-for-tortoises-and-now-snails/#axzz2uwWaOEo5

http://fox4kc.com/2014/03/04/woman-crochets-little-costumes-for-tortoises-and-snails/

Buttercup and Snail

Snail being shy

Two cute cozy critters

Buttercup meets a snail V2.0

Our little Marginated tortoise got to meet another snail. It finally rained here, so there were quite a few in our garden - I think these are European snails. People are always surprised to see them in our area. Regardless, the design on this particular snail's shell looked really pretty, so before feeding it to our redfoot tortoise, I took a few pictures of it with on top of Buttercup. 

Giving snails a ride makes me grumpy! (Or maybe that's just my face)

I found a nice sunny spot on a rock in your back yard that was the perfect staging area for these pictures. No flash or extra lighting was necessary.

Weeee!

Hopefully in the next year or so we will have some home-hatched Russian tortoise babies... which will start out about the same size as this snail!

Two beautiful shelled creatures...

On a side note, it is a real pain to rinse snail trail off of a tortoise shell. It's not quite water soluble, and kind of sticky. I don't put anything but water on Buttercup's shell, so I finally just scrubbed it a little with an old toothbrush.