This crab story has legs.
It's a Pixar movie in the making or the basis for a pop-up children's book, at the very least, about a tiny crustacean, a long way from its home on the Atlantic coast, that evades a pot and becomes a pet.
On Monday afternoon, David Prichodko assembled the ingredients for paella, a special 50th birthday dinner for his partner, Alan Casey, and was dumping mussels into a colander when one of the shelled creatures began to crawl.
University of Winnipeg biology student Luke Roffey agreed to adopt the accidental tourist from the Maritimes that arrived here in a bag of mussels. (Supplied)