Hehe , it was tongue in cheek about the no HI bit

but thanks for the feedback on that issue,,, hmmm Am I able to move this thread then to another forum, or does a moderator have to do this?

The pivot thing i seemed to of sorted btw, being so rusty Im pretty washed out with ideas when fixing problems in maya off the top of my head these days, old age that is hehe.. Some reason selecting the 2 legs and ear while in rotate tool mode seemed to of done the trick, no idea why but there u go lol..

Anyway thanks for the welcome Ill go now and stitch its limbs on lol, that should be amsuing, i recall that if ur models vertices have a pretty lame layout there can be alot of swearing trying to merge the right ones

All the best,

James..