No sharon, but mad enough to consider having a saluki (big grin)

Now just how did you know that as Lewis is beautiful but unshowable, and my Star baby is not to be, I've been having long saluki shaped thoughts again :-)?

Oh nononononononononononononono! What about an otterhound, much more up your street :)

Hmmmm - I do like snotterhounds, but just think - if I had a saluki, no one is going to complain that my hound is too lean, which would be a lovely change ...

Def. an otterhound, big, shambling softies, who would adore the area/life style that you have. ( imo :) )

So I can either spend the next decade chasing a saluki over the Eildons as it declines to come back, or fishing an otterhound out of the Tweed :-). Maybe I'll have one more go at looking for a show wolfie ....

:) :) :) good idea.

'squse my stupidity - axolityls - some sort of salamanda? Or has my memory gone and it is some sort of insect, no can't be you would not feed an insect worms - would you? Jackie H

Hi Jackie,yes they are the larval form of the salamander. Native of Mexico, and hard to breed in this country for the following reason, or so Ive been told!!! In Mexico, the Iodine content in the water is different to ours. In their native land, they loose their gills, develope lungs and leave the water. Here, unless you are an expert it is difficult to get them to breed. Personally, I dont even know how you sex one. Mine is about 9ins long now, and eats earth worms, hence Sharons dislike of the little critter lol

Thanks, no idea when or where I picked up that bit of info from, it's amazing what pops out of the brain uninvited, half the time you didn't know it was there anyway, if you see what I mean. Jackie

Agree totally, but why does it rarely pop up when you need it, thats what I want to know?

Jackie, with apologies to Dawn, Phil & their axolotyls, they are also ulgly as sin even without an earthworm dinner :-)

LOL,They are sooooooo ugly, they are cute.:)

Sharon, trust you are not refering to Dawn & Phil are you. Jackie

Jackie, knowing Sharon as I do, she probably is...(((( holding aching sides)))))

"ELVIS" (Gecko) eats brown Crickets, Locusts, mealworms and Waxworms. Oh and my Border Terrier "parsley" thought it entertaining to grab a new box of crickets and throw them all over the kitchen !!! Upto 200 of the things jumping everywhere, had to fumigate the kitchen, empty it of furniture and vacuum it for hours!!!!! Fancy swapping the Axolotyl for a Gecko Phill?
Dawn.

Ill swap if your Gecko eats spiders....yahoooooo!! What a lot of work with the crickets, bet you said a few words to Parsley

he would eat spiders Phill, but you would have to catch them and put them in for him, ALIVE !!!
Dawn.

You, youre rotten horrible you are, roflol :)