Southwest Axolotls

14/06/2025

I'm going to guess from the confused face that Miya has never met axolotls before 🤣🤣

18/05/2025

When Rescue Becomes Performance — And Animals Pay the Price

There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that doesn’t get talked about much in the animal rescue world. It’s not the sad stories, the medical emergencies, or even the deaths. It’s what happens when rescue becomes a brand—and compassion becomes content.

Recent events in the community and reading about “Help a Paw Essex.” made me reflect. On the surface, it looked like everything we want to believe in: tear-jerking posts, before-and-after photos, and just enough warm filters to soften the edges of suffering. But dig just a little deeper, and you start to see the fractures. Thirty-seven dogs dead. Dozens more neglected. And one man finally arrested.

But the damage’s already done.

And let’s be honest: it’s not about the axolotl community or a particular group. It’s a pattern. A sickness spreading through the rescue community—especially online. We’ve glamorised trauma. We’ve turned vulnerable animals into content. And somewhere along the way, many “rescues” stopped asking, What’s best for this dog? and started asking, What will get the most engagement this week?

Let me be clear: real rescue is not a story arc.
It’s not a 48-hour turnaround.
It’s not photogenic. It’s slow. Quiet. Often boring. Sometimes brutal.
It’s water testing. Diet logs. Weeks of silence while you build trust with something too afraid to make eye contact.
It’s refusing to rehome too soon. Refusing to ship across borders for clout. Refusing to post suffering for pity-clicks.

It’s doing the right thing when no one’s looking—especially then.

I don’t run a big rescue. I don’t have thousands of followers. But I’ve cared for enough overlooked, mistreated creatures—some with gills, some with paws—to know what actual care looks like.

It’s not always shareable. But it’s always real.

If your rescue work requires branding, drama, and emotional manipulation to function, it’s not rescue.
It’s exploitation.
And the animals deserve better.

16/05/2025

📣 NEW GUIDE DROP!
“Morphing Axolotl Guide: So Your Axolotl Wants Legs”
The only UK-based, brutally honest survival guide for axolotl morphing—written by someone who’s actually lived through it

💧 Real morph case studies (Pinky, Pebble, and the iconic Oreo)
📷 Timeline photos
🐾 Feeding tips, housing setups, and what NOT to do
⚠️ No fluff. No fear. No fridging.

Download it. Share it. Save a morph.

16/05/2025

On top of missing the memo about her being a land dweller now and preferring to stay 85% aquatic, Pinky also enjoys hunting for her worms more than having them handed to her with the tweezers, you can see she's even memorised where her feeding dish is and goes there when she wants food. For the record once she's done eating the remaining worms are removed from her enclosure.

06/05/2025

01/05/2025

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27/02/2025

These wild axolotls are looking for good homes, around 4 months old and eating daendrobena worms, they are located in Weymouth. If you can give one of them a loving home please contact Nicky Hall.

16/12/2024

This beautiful boy, through no fault of his own is up for adoption, located in Stoke, if you can offer him a good home please pop Rhiannon Davis a message 🥰🥰

19/11/2024

Normie here is looking for a new loving home due to a change in his owners circumstances, if you have knowledge of axolotls and have done your research and want to give normie a good home please message Sue Helen Gillings. He does come with tank and stand, filter , triple fan, prime and water testing kit.

22/10/2024

3 axolotl available for rehoming, 1 male and 2 female so will need to be housed separately, will need a cycled tank of minimum 3 ft for the females and 2ft for the male, if interested please pm Adrian Roberts.