I purchase two marisas nine months ago and have absolutely loved them. Yesterday I received a call from someone at our local branch office of the USDA. He said he needed to talk to me about a shippment of snails I had received. He informed me that it is illegal to transport these snails across state lines and that the snails would need to be confiscated and destroyed.
He will be coming by my office tomorrow morning to pick them up and take them away. I am of course very, very sad.

Much less than Happy Clam