My baby is gone and it's all my fault.

[horrr0r]

My baby leatherleaf slug is one of three triplets that I bred myself. He was only 1.5 centimeters long or so when stretched out. Those 3 were my faves out of everything cause I bred them myself. I was playing with 2 of them in my hand, along with 2 garden snails. I looked away and when I looked back, the slugs were riding on the snails like humans on horses! It was so cute cause they were both doing it! SOOOOOOO CUTE! Anyway I took pictures and then was putting them back in the terrarium. While I was putting one snail back in, the other baby slug went on the other snail (so both of them were on the one snails shell. It was so cute! But then somehow the snail fell off my hand onto the floor. I picked up the snail and one slug, but I couldn't find the other one!

I can't stop crying. I've "lost" a slug in my room before (it escaped thru the air hole) but it came back on its own a few days later. But it was bigger than the baby. I'm su re the baby will die. I looked everywhere and couldn't find him. My room is really a pigsty, and where he fell was at the edge of my bed, on the floor was a pile of crap, and I looked but can't find him.

It's so f**king stupid because he is RIGHT HERE somewhere! It's not a big area, he's within a 1 foot radius of me but for some reason I just can't find him! He is so close by me I just wish I knew where! This sucks!

The triplets are my faves cause I bred them myself and they're the cutest things ever! I couldn't stop crying and my chest hurts. My bf said "it's just a slug" which, yeah I know, but I'm still really sad. I have Autism spectrum disorder (like aspergers) so when I get into something, I become kinda obsessed with it all my time and thoughts go into it and that's what my slugs and snails are to me.

[etana]

Hun, warm up a bit of his fave food so it smells good and place it on the floor. Hope he comes to eat it.

[Zorst]

I'll 2nd that one Etana, it always seem's to work.
Hope you find him again soon.

Zorst

[Liguus]

I once found a large, completely black, snail in florida and kept it in a soda bottle in the hotel room. It managed to escape my soda bottle container somehow (I probably didn't secure it too well being 12 and all) and I never saw the snail again. It might have been some exotic species, or a rare color morph, since there is no other snail like it in florida.

What I would do now is probably soak a rag in beer and put that on a plate in the middle of the room. He might smell it and travel to it during the night.

I would also look for slime trails and see if you can track them to the slug. I've done this before when I brought my carnivorous plants inside and inevitably brought in some hitchhiker slugs into my living room as well.

[etana]

Did you find the slug, h0rrror?

Btw, we know it's not "just a slug", they're very dear pets and of course it's normal to cry when something happens to someone or something you love.

You might also be surprised by how many people here are on the autistic spectrum, I for example am somewhere there with many of those traits (I'm going through evaluation but that much is already known). Snails might be the happiest, most harmless thing I've ever been obsessed over. Even when it really breaks my heart when they're hurt or pass away.

[horrr0r]

Jun 27, 2015 8:13:12 GMT etana said:

Did you find the slug, h0rrror?

Btw, we know it's not "just a slug", they're very dear pets and of course it's normal to cry when something happens to someone or something you love.

You might also be surprised by how many people here are on the autistic spectrum, I for example am somewhere there with many of those traits (I'm going through evaluation but that much is already known). Snails might be the happiest, most harmless thing I've ever been obsessed over. Even when it really breaks my heart when they're hurt or pass away.

I didn't find him that night. However the next night I walked outside and felt something really lightly drop on the top of my foot. I looked down and saw a baby slug near my foot on the pavement! I'm pretty sure it is my slug, because the odds of it being not - my slug are slim to none... but I don't understand how that happened! Where the heck did it come from? All I can assume is that it was on my hair or clothing and somehow fell onto my foot... but how/when it had boarded my body, and how it had stayed safe and not gotten dried out or squished is beyond me... pretty crazy!! He was very weak and sluggish after that, but has since recovered. I am so happy albeit confused... good luck on your diagnosis and all that. It's such a relief when you have an official diagnosis/have a "name for it" etc. Now that I think about it, that actually doesn't surprise me that many slug/snail lovers are neuro-diverse or whatnot!

[astana]

It's good that you found him. Poor guy, must have had quite a day.