What Did I See Crawling Into My Garage?

I saw a cute blue spotted salamander crawling across the garage floor as fast as it's little legs could go. I think the woods were too wet for this little fella so he came into the garage to dry out. Blue spotted salamanders are the most common salamander in Minnesota. They typically live in the woods and procreate on vernal ponds - ponds that appear in the spring and disappear the rest of the year. One female blue spotted salamander can lay up to 500 eggs each year. How does she come up with 500 names for all her offspring? These salamanders eat spiders, earthworms, slugs and centipedes. When the salamander feels threatened it will play skunk - wag it's tail back and forth and produce a noxious secretion from the base of it's tail. If grabbed by the southern most end of a salamander going north, the salamander tail can detach and writhe which confuses the predator during the escape.