seriously, what's with the mud everywhere?! I know England is wet and rainy, but its not hard to put down substrates that don't leave the animals wallowing in mud all day!!
Agree, virtually every picture of SL features mud (the Reindeer one is debatable IMO but the others aren't.) The Lake District does experience heavy rainfall, and this year has been exceptional, but more substrates would probably resolve a lot of this problem. See the tiger/jaguar photo for other comments.