OK according to my dictionary a MUDPUPPY is a large North American salamader - "Necturus maculosus" that has external gills and is gray to rusty brown usually with "bluish-black spots". Now I'm all into mud-wrestling - especially if we could do it side by side with all those men doin the belly-dance thing - but do we hafta "tackle them" slippery mudpuppies tooooo???? Sounds like Paul Simon again ....