MEET THE CAVE CRITTERS!



This is my feline daughter, Goblin. She's a naked elf-cat, but elf isn't quite the word to describe her - she is more of a trash gargoyle who loves to leave her chewed-up mouse toys in various places around the house, including but not limited to our computer desks, our bed pillows, the sofa, in cupboards, in slippers, in shoes, and in the laundry basket.

Said mousey toy will dangle from her tiny, stinky maw whilst she runs around the house like a flailing bearded dragon, screaming into the abyss.

Her favorite things are:
Smearing her face/neck all over beards, eating chicken (and begging for said chicken), laying on her back and worming around the floor like a little maggot, chewing wood and cardboard, climbing things, her blue and grey mouse toys, wrestling with Gizmo, warm, stinky cuddles and being mushroom soup under the blankets.
Her scent is earthy and savory, like mushroom soup when she's especially greasy, or of fresh chestnut mushrooms after a bath.
Her nicknames are Chicken Lizard, Mushroom-Rat, Reptile, Mantis Cat, Bug Cat, Brundlecat, Vermiform, The Slithery-Dee, and Demon.



Mordecai the Gunkcat is my oldest feline child, a senior grimalkin who smells like the fluid that collects at the bottom of a garbage can mixed with rotting tuna. He's an inverted tuxedo mog we rescued from an alleyway behind a restaurant where he was being fed scraps by the owners.

His favorite things are:
Playing with his stinky banana toy, licking the kitchen cupboards, looking out the window at all the corvids, making copious amounts of biscuits, licking earwax, being miserable.

He loves a lap until he doesn't - constantly having mood swings - though if you manage to relax him enough to find his 'crumple zone,' he enjoys a lengthy scritch.
His nicknames are Spoothead, Grimalkin, GarbageBaby, Pissbaby, GreaterDemon, and TrashTribble.


Gizmo is my ditzy feline child; he is also a sphynx cat with ginger/orange fur patches. Gizmo is lovable and sweet but can be one of the most mischievous of the cat babies. He loves cuddles and farting; when he's relaxed enough, you can guarantee concentrated butt stench and a room that reeks of uncleaned litter box for a few hours. His large, silly ears inspired his namesake, as he looks like a mangled mogwai.

His favorite things are:
Suckling his own nipples (loudly...) whilst making biscuits, jumping really high or doing somersaults, jumping on crinkled packets or crumply cat toys (he loves the sound of crinkled material), cuddling, stealing Mordecai's biscuits, running around, and finding warm places.

Like Goblin, he has a wonderful earthy mushroom scent... he also leaves more sebum stains than Goblin, as he tends to get much greasier (both get bathed once a week with daily wipe downs). Gizmo is a very sweet boy who just wants to have fun and nap.
His nicknames are Clown-foot, Scrotum, Meatsack, Skinwalker, Gizzy, Gizmoid, Gizmodious, Gizward, Stimpy, and LesserDemon.


Oblina is a mix of Norwegian Forest Cat and Tuxedo cat. Due to unforeseen changes in life/circumstance, she no longer lives with us, though she was with me between the years 2009-2016 and has been living with her other dad ever since. Thanks to said other dad for keeping in touch so I know how she's doing!

When Oblina lived with me, she shared her life with my other cat at the time, Temujin (RIP), the amputee Egyptian Mau (he only had three legs, my lovable little tripod). She was at that point an outdoor cat, so she spent a lot of time outside the house. Oblina now resides in another part of the country with two other kitties and seems to have a happy life.

When Oblina was here, her favorite things were hunting local wildlife and bringing back live toads/frogs/birds/mammals/reptiles, eating scrambled eggs, climbing trees, playfighting with Temujin, hiding under rugs, and hiding toys.

Her nicknames were Blee, HamNose, SelfMess, Obl0b, porkcylinder, OmegaDemon, and Horrifica.


My swampy flora - Venus Fly Traps and Pitcher Plants - they love this particular windowsil as it's in a part of the house that faces towards direct sunlight. They love the humid summer weather and all the flies and spiders that come their way from the garden. I supplment their diet with wax worms, blood worms, small beetles, slugs and moths.


Yolandi and Dizzle the ratty sisters - favorite things are puzzle toys, corn, egg biscuits, frozen pea bobbing in the summer and being fed locusts as a treat!



I've been keeping a steady colony of Madagascar Hissing Roaches, Peppered Roaches, Porcelain Ghost Roaches, Skunk Roaches, Harlequin Roaches, Banana Roaches, Discoids, Dubias, Orangeheads, Deathheads and Domino Roaches for over two decades! Some call me a cockroach farmer! The pic of my peppered cockroach (archimandrita tessellata) moulting is one of my favorite snaps I ever caught!


This is Sir Moldy-Splorch Marbilington or Splorch for short. He is my marbled newt, his colors change depending on temperature/time of year! He loves nothing more than to bury himself in Sphagnum moss and nom on small pinkies and crickets. He also loves nightcrawlers as a treat!



Spindle, Wheatley and Ida - Ida always loved sitting in her favorite T-cup!

RIP IDA

Never forgotten...

My Millipede Ronka having a walk - feeling him crawl along my arm is one of my favorite things!


Klepto and Backpack the hermit crabs - Klepto got that name because he couldn't stop stealing Backpack's shells when moulting - despite there always being an adequate amount of shells all over their tank!


Skankum the fire-bellied toad! He loves crickets and blood worms and especially juicy wax worms!


My three dumpy tree frogs - Dettol, Harpic and Domestos - named because of their antibacterial secretions!


These little puddle monsters are triops! Fun little critters to observe and keep. Triops have survived for millions of years despite laying eggs in ponds that completely dry up and may not see water again for decades. The Triops eggs are in what scientists call a "diapause" state, meaning the eggs can survive in a 99.99% dried out state for decades! True little extremophiles!


My little colony of Sun Beetles (Pachnoda Marginata) - this image shows them in their 'conga line' state, a strange behaviour I have observed in them a plethora of times! When they're not lining up like little coleoptera bureaucrats, they're busy eating their rotting leaves, bullying the small tropical isopods in their tank (clean-up crew!) or running around looking pretty.


Wild caught leeches - they like to eat small snails and tiny inverts (these aren't the blood sucking kind!) They spend a lot of time slithering around their tank - they're masters of escape so tanks have to be sealed tight when keeping these lil critter companions!


The skull/remains of my Egyptian Mau Temujin - he passed away back in 2016 - he was 17 years old and I raised him from sickly kitten to one-brain-cell adult. He was my first ever cat companion and my forever-fang.


This is Barlow, my preserved/mummified greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) - the coffin he resides in was made specifically for him! He's lived in that coffin for his entire afterlife. (as with all my taxidermy pieces, this was sourced ethically, and he was not killed for the purpose of art! ALL of my taxidermy pieces were either roadkill or natural deaths, no exceptions.)


The diaphonized skeleton of my rat Ebola, she passed away in 2008 from old age, she was 4 years old! She loved nothing more than to sit on my shoulder and chew yogurt drops whilst watching Law & Order: SVU with me!


My little embryo Drazzle, he's lived on so many of my desks over the years always there to make me smile!

*COMING SOON*
Video clips of critter companions




Here is a list of past/present critters of the Goblinkin family!

Penn and Teller (Terrapins) 1992-2000

Magic, Spit, Shimmer and Sparkle (cockatiels) 1992-2005

Norbert, Dagget, Rimmer, Lister, Baron Von Steam Beak and all their fledgling babies (Zebra Finches) 2002-2010

Beavis and Butthead (Bengal Finches) 2002-2010

Fido (speckled carpet shark) 2000-2010

Colony of Triops 2003-2010

Assorted nameless albino clawed salt water frogs 2000-2005

Phlegm, Sputum, Skankum, Cough and Vomit (Fire Bellied toads) 2000-2006

Dettol, Domestos, Harpic and Shovelhead (Giant whites dumpy tree frogs) 2001-2015

Klepto & Backpack (hermit crabs) 2001-2007

Nickadeemus (rat) 2000-2004

Bubonic, Ebola and Malaria (rats) 2004-2008

Jacoby (rat) 2004-2010

Peabody and Atlus (rats) 2011-2015

Yolandi and Dizzle (rats) 2015-2019

Fizzle and Rizzle (Gerbils) 2001-2005

Hamtaro, Hickling, Beistle and Voldo (Russian dwarf hamsters) 2001-2003

Skuttelina (Giant African train millipede) 2005-2010

Gregory (Chocolate millipede) 2010-2015

Ronka (Giant African train millipede) 2021-2023

Rothgar (Vietnam Giant Centipede) 2024-Present

Mantarok and Dagon (Italian Crested Newts) 2001-2017

Splorch (Marbled newt) 2021-Present

Temujin (Egyptian Mau) 1999-2016

Oblina (Norweigan Forest Cat) 2009-Present

Mordecai (mog cat) 2017-Present

Buford (Cane toad) 2005-2011

Gunky, Lumpy and Stitch (Giant African land snails) 2005-2015

Leech colony 2010-2017

Madagascan hissing cockroach colony 2007-Present

Giant Pepper cockroach colony 2009-Present

Harlequin Cockroach colony 2005-2020

Banana cockroach colony 2005-2020

Deaths head cockroach colony 2006-Present

Turkistan cockroach colony 2006-Present

Dubia cockroach colony 2006-Present

Sun Beetle colony 2017-2020

Kratos (Goliath beetle) 2006-2007

Spindle (Rose hair tarantula) 2006-2021

Shao Kahn (Mexican red rump tarantula) 2007-2022

Wheatley (Western desert blond tarantula) 2011-2022

Ida (Rose hair tarantula) 2007-2024

Pataki (Singapore blue tarantula) 2009-2016

Hallow and Ween (stick insects) 2006-2008

Assorted nameless leopard slug colony 2006-2016

Assorted colony of nameless Skin beetles 2007-2010

Jenkins, Lovecraft, Acid and Tango (Poison Dart Frogs) 2004-2010

Colony of Clown Isopods (Armadillidium Klugii) 2024-Present

Klyden, Yaphit, Bortus and Isaac four spotted flower beetles (stephanorrhina guttata) 2024-Present

Gizmo (Sphynx cat) 2024-Present

Goblin (elf-cat) 2024-Present