salamander

In the picture you see this salamander on the dog bed! ( not her idea as the story below will tell you)

the day this picture was taken...i was standing in the doorway, shutting the doors early for the evening. suddenly i saw something run past me on the floor. in this house there are a lot of lizards there. so i thought one had fallen from the ceiling. but nikki went running after it. nikki i notice is very sharp in running after moving things- more than all of them. may be her instincts of a retriever. since i had shut all the exit points the poor lizard could not get out. meanwhile all the other dogs had joined this hunt. i shooed them away from the door to allow the poor thing to escape. i did not realise then that it was unable to do so. then next thing was that i saw the dogs climb down the stairs towards the basement. they never do that ever.

then i understood that the animal was going down and they were after it-all three. they went down all the way, the door of the basement was open that day. i let them be, thinking that the lizard would figure her way out on her own. how can dogs catch a lizard, though in my heart of hearts i was apprehensive. as i was standing upstairs and either doing something or reading...ginger came upstairs after my persistent calling...and lo and behold! to my utter horror- dropped this poor little salamander on the dog bed lying there. that was too much of a shock for me. the salamander too was bloodied or seemed red (are they warm blooded?) too dazed to move and on closer examination i felt perhaps one of her legs too was broken.

i shooed all the dogs away finally. raga went and hid under the diwan in my music room, i tied up nikki as she was seeming very interested in the matter and ginger i put behind the baby gate outside the kitchen. with a bit of fear and uncertainty i managed to take the salamander out (while still on the dog mattress) and opened the mattress out dropping it near my pots in the driveway. what a relief to see it crawl away under my car! oh dear...i wonder what all i am going to see in this house...what with nikki pulling down the tassles of my curtains in the guest room. more about that later.

this is what happens when they are on the terrace...at least a synopsis of it:)

ok so now what you gotta do is to click your mouse button on the arrow of the movie clip and you see a video i made - a very lousy one with no script really, but the idea was that i could show the actions of my dogs like live. you hear my voice too...making a fool of myself, trying to say something impromptu.