new pet ?

We had a quiet afternoon at the beach, just the three of us after all the troops departed... On the way back, little un found a snail, which she carried all the way home, even though it was crawling up her fingers and clearly felt quite strange...  she was most intrigued and was very gentle with it... I think it's now sloped off into a flowerbed somewhere... it reminded me of when I was little and desperate for a pet... I had snails at one point in the shed, and then me and my brother got stick insects... I've still not managed to get a dog though ...