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Texas Monthly – All Hail the Mighty Snail

Texas Monthly – All Hail the Mighty Snail

Posted on July 31, 2025

Mighty Snail IllustrationIf you want to forget your troubles and tune out the state of the world, look no further than an online snail-appreciation group like Pet Snails and Slugs, which has ten thousand members from all over the world on Facebook. You’ll find photos of mollusks with captions such as “For a month I thought my snail Nebula had died but she has risen from the dead! My baby!!!” Then there’s the picture of two Cuban brown snails named April and Jack eating “dinner” out of a little dish. If you dismiss these creatures as slimy pests, a Texas snail aficionado like Jorjana Gietl might help change your mind.“I personally love my milk snail, Gary,” says Gietl, who is 23 and lives in Willis, about fifty…

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