...I just like holding it."

           -Tobias Graefensteiner

                                           CALIFORNIA SLENDER SALAMANDER

"Sally" (temporary moniker until Tobi thinks of 'his' real name) has been a willing participant in several outdoor activities:  boating, scenic tour of the backyard, trucking, and a wild ride on Tobi's Razor (scooter).  While outdoors, Sally also has her own playhouse, where she can occasionally be seen leaping from level to plastic level.  Since a sudden vacation with a 5-year-old boy can be awfully taxing on a small amphibious homebody (formerly pretty darn happy deep in the wet mealy earth), our new salamander is happily at rest (live rest that is) in its new, and more ordinary habitat--complete with neighbors (snails) and potential food sources (crickets, earthworms, centipedes).

Tobi wants to let you know (in case you were worried), that Sally is not poisonous!