Our kids have been begging for one of these for a while so we picked one up as a Christmas present for them (marketed as "Baby Dinosaurs"). Anyone here have one of these? They are a different sort of creature - definitly not the warm fuzzy pet I tend to like, but they are interesting to observe.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Axolotl_ganz.jpg/800px-Axolotl_ganz.jpg

http://www.axolotl.org/

Those things are creepy.

LOL, maybe I should have put a cuter pic
http://www.axolotl.org/images/animals/axolotl.jpg

Those frillly things around it's head are gills.