Don't pick up snails by the shell. Apparently, it can tear some skin that connects to the shell and it kills them.
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This depends very heavily on how you pick them up by the shell.
If you just grab the shell and pull, yes.
They can feel the touch on the shell though, and usually retreat into it when touched. When they do, if you slide them backward along their own slime trail (or if aquatic/wet surface, any direction), they lose suction and pop right off. No harm done.
I’ve never managed to kill a snail by handling, but I’m gentle about it.
TIL
Then he murders you because he wanted to go the other way spending years.
It was just a decoy anyway.
Or like the fly that gets into your car right before you set off on an 8 hour road trip.
i imagine it being more like those secret cloud levels in super mario bros.
will you snail?