The Escargot has Escar-gone........

It is with much sadness that we mourn the loss of "Pong". He was our tennis-ball sized orange snail that called the aquarium home for the last 8 years. He was a good snail.....knowing enough to terrorize Dad's aquarium plants so that he would escape the "daily-water-changing, forever-adding-this-and-that-to-the-water-death-trap" that is Dad's aquarium, and set his sights on calmer waters and his new nightlife as kitty-entertainment.

He lived long, and prospered.....having watched enough sci-fi with us to know that he could mutate by harnessing the radiation from the flourescent tank light to grow well beyond his 1 1/2 inch expected diameter to become the "Most Powerful Snail In The World!" (Muahahahahaha!)

He will be missed.