I'm going to be having major surgery later tonight, and I don't know how that will turn out. I did wonder if there was any significance to a dream I had last night.
I was working at the equine tourism center, and found a locked room with a bunch of old aquariums in it. The fish in them had survived by evolving whole new ecosystems with the plants and other aquarium animals. While the center's sanitation crew cleaned out everthing, I spotted movement. It was a strange little animal that looked like a salamander, but moved with its limbs held straight under the body, like a mammal. It had a long, low body, and the resulting locomotion was something like a weasel's.
I chased it, and finally managed to catch it because it still had a salamander's circulatory system, and lacked the endurance needed to keep running for very long. It fought, trying to get away, squirming and snapping, evne though it had no teeth. I built an enclosure for it out of the skeleton of a huge old suitcase, complete with a warming light, plants, and a water dish.
It's skin was dry to the touch, like a toad's, but it still needed access to water for soaking. In the end, that was how I tamed it, by exploiting its moisture needs. I would hold it down next to me, dip my hand in a dish of rainwater, then pet it gently, wetting the salamander's skin. After a while it enjoyed being petted, and was tame enough to leave loose in my home. I was even teaching it to walk on a leash, and had adapted a ferret harness to fit. One day, i noticed hat harness was becoming far too small, and wondered how large the salamander would get. "Will it grow as large as a Jack Russell terrier?" I thought. "That would be awesome."
I had to shorten the body in the picture, because I don't have much time to do this in, and couldn't think of how to fir it all in the screen until it was 3/4th done. It is a buff-colored animal, with faint cream and red-orange patterning on the skin.
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I was working at the equine tourism center, and found a locked room with a bunch of old aquariums in it. The fish in them had survived by evolving whole new ecosystems with the plants and other aquarium animals. While the center's sanitation crew cleaned out everthing, I spotted movement. It was a strange little animal that looked like a salamander, but moved with its limbs held straight under the body, like a mammal. It had a long, low body, and the resulting locomotion was something like a weasel's.
I chased it, and finally managed to catch it because it still had a salamander's circulatory system, and lacked the endurance needed to keep running for very long. It fought, trying to get away, squirming and snapping, evne though it had no teeth. I built an enclosure for it out of the skeleton of a huge old suitcase, complete with a warming light, plants, and a water dish.
It's skin was dry to the touch, like a toad's, but it still needed access to water for soaking. In the end, that was how I tamed it, by exploiting its moisture needs. I would hold it down next to me, dip my hand in a dish of rainwater, then pet it gently, wetting the salamander's skin. After a while it enjoyed being petted, and was tame enough to leave loose in my home. I was even teaching it to walk on a leash, and had adapted a ferret harness to fit. One day, i noticed hat harness was becoming far too small, and wondered how large the salamander would get. "Will it grow as large as a Jack Russell terrier?" I thought. "That would be awesome."
I had to shorten the body in the picture, because I don't have much time to do this in, and couldn't think of how to fir it all in the screen until it was 3/4th done. It is a buff-colored animal, with faint cream and red-orange patterning on the skin.