stanley

Yesterday, amid all the birthday celebrations, our amazingly tough axolotl was on the floor. He's an amphibian, he lives in a tank, not good. The cat Oscar has a nasty habit of turning to killer instinct every now and again, and apparently threw poor Stanley out of his tank and "played" with him a while. The little guy's tail was pretty torn up, and I cleaned quite a bit of blood off the floor, but he's still alive this morning. He made a heroic comeback once before, and we all thought he was really, truly dead a few times last night, but he keeps surprising us by jumping back to life and scurrying around his aquatic home. So please, say a little prayer for Stanley, and wish him well. We're all holding our breath to see if he pulls through.

Attempting a gentle rescue operation. This guy is stupendously tough.