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Animals in Texas

What's not to like about animals? They don't borrow money - they don't ask for a ride to the airport and they'll never ask you to help them move. On the flip side: they don't help out with chores, they run around naked all the time and they couldn't care less about world peace - as long as their immediate territory is under control - preferably theirs. Animals bring out the best in humans - even Texans. So we're including this feature where we can read stories of how animals improve our lives, lower our blood pressure and attempt to pay us back (in their own simple and mysterious ways) for those midnight runs for pet food. - Editor

Cows / Cattle / Longhorns / Oxen

• Trailing Texas Fever by Clay Coppedge
• The Texas Longhorn: Shaped By Nature by Clay Coppedge
• Aransas Abattoir by Mike Cox
  Rockport used to be a coastal cow town, a place where hooves and horns drove the local economy, not fishing and tourism...
• Blackie the Bear by Mike Cox
  Nickels were hard to come by in the tough economic times of the early 1890s, but the cowboys patronizing Jim Scarborough�s saloon in Claude never minded standing Blackie a drink when they could afford to.
• Longhorn: Texas' first industry by Delbert Trew
  The book "The Long Trail" by Gardner Sowle, published in 1976 by McGraw-Hill, tells the real story of early cowboys, longhorns and the first industry developed in Texas. This was the chore of capturing, branding, taming, raising and driving longhorns to market...
• Animals adjust to barbed wire by Delbert Trew
  Because of the nature of the subject, a significant chapter of Old West history - bloody livestock injuries - is often ignored or forgotten. However, it did happen, and here is the story.
• Selling the Calves by Robert G. Cowser
  In the late 1940s cattle auctions were common in the towns of Northeast Texas. Each town picked a different day of the week so as not to compete with nearby towns...
• Cow feed, from slab to sack by Delbert Trew
  Like all progress, the evolution of ranch livestock feeding has changed greatly, and for the better.
• Winter scene paves way to ranch memories by Delbert Trew
• Coyote Lake - Watering spot for cattle
• Early Cattlemen saved Texas from financial ruin by Murray Montgomery
  After the Civil War, Texas and the rest of the South were in a bad economic situation. The war had drained the resources of the defeated states and when the soldiers returned home, they found it extremely hard to make a living. But Texas had an untapped resource roaming wild on the open range � longhorn cattle provided an industry that grew to become the largest in the state.
• Texas Fever by C. F. Eckhardt
  South Texas cattle didn�t die of the disease. They didn�t even show signs of it. Within weeks after south Texas herds passed northern herds sickened, began to pass red urine, and then�in 95 cases out of 100�died. It was called Redwater Fever from the red urine, or simply Texas Fever. Nobody knew what caused it...
• Old Pecos by Mike Cox
  She didn�t have a particularly feminine sounding name, but the old heifer they called Pecos sure came branded with a good story.
• The Legend Of Bone Hill by Bob Bowman
  Bone Hill, a landmark standing about four miles northeast of Center, reportedly got its name from a herd of cattle who died atop the mill, leaving their bones to whiten in the East Texas sun. But, as with all legends, there�s more to the story...
• Longhorn Branded Murder 1889 by Murray Montgomery
  To the cowboys who rode the range in West Texas during the [1890s] there was one longhorn steer that was always an object of dread... His appearance among their herds brought a chill of terror to the superstitious...
• Bull in the Brush by Mike Cox
  If you�re tired and ready to hit the beach at South Padre, the 120-mile drive from Corpus Christi can seem like it�s going to take forever. But imagine walking that distance. And in a time before convenience stores, Dairy Queens or any other places to get water or something to eat. That is what it was like in the late winter of 1846 when Gen. Zachary Taylor started his Army on its march from Corpus Christi to Point Isabel (now Port Isabel) and the nearby Rio Grande...
• Suddenly Silly by Mike Cox
  Fuss over a Cow at Snow Hill...
• �Mysterious Cattle Deaths� Not So Mysterious by C. F. Eckhardt
  In the news over the past several years there has been a rash of �mysterious� deaths of livestock, most notably cattle. Apparently the animals have been sucked dry of blood, as a general rule the genitals have been cut out, apparently surgically, the eyes are usually gone, often the tongue is gone, and the rectum has been removed. These have been blamed on everything from UFOs to Satanic cults. Apparently, they are the result of neither.
• Disappearing Cows by Mike Cox
  "...But at night, especially when the moon bathed the landscape in a light far cooler than day, the energy level rose. Not only did the animals move, many believed that unrested souls flitted about. Strange things were said to happen..."
• Kaiser Cows - Bovine Saboteurs of WWI by Mike Cox
• "Don't Shoot the Bull" by N. Ray Maxie
  This is a post WWII story when I was about eight or nine years old and written here to the best of my memory...
• "A Field Guide to Cows" by John Pukie. A book review
  Fifty-two breeds are featured with their identifying characteristics, vital statistics and even cow demographics. Humor is abundant...
• Contented Cows & Flying Bulls by John Troesser
  Carnation comes to Texas in 1929
• Belle the Cow AKA Doris of LaGrange
  Belle, sometime spokescow for Bluebell Creameries ...
• Life on the Trail by Murray Montgomery
  The cowboy legacy is very much alive in Texas ...
• Oxen 'Spares' needed pairs by Delbert Trew
  Many historical journals kept by travelers using wagon trains pulled by oxen describe the herds of extra oxen driven along for "spares."
• Old-timers' tales - true or not by Delbert Trew
  Story of a sucking calf weighing about 300 pounds...
• Snowfall in Galveston by Mike Cox
  One rancher blamed the livestock deaths on barbed wire, which in 1895 had only been around Texas for slightly longer than a decade...
• A Conversation With The Family... (of Longhorns)
• Longhorns in Ganado
• Oxen in Blessing
  Light verse and poetry by d.knape
• Cows
• The Zen of Cows
• Holy Cow
• Cows
  Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
• Madisonville's two-cows law
• "Cattle Highway"
• Bill Pickett Bulldogging
• National Cow Calling Contest
• Longhorn Texas Official Large Mammal
• Taxing Fights
• Texas Angus
• Longhorn
• Mesquite Beans Related Topic: Ranches & Ranching ›

Horses

• Runaway Horse is Page 1 Story by Michae Barr 11-22-22
• Horses as Transportation by Mike Cox
• The Horse George Childress Rode In On by Clay Coppedge
• Philip Nolan and All the Pretty Horses by Clay Coppedge
• Helen Hall by Mike Cox
  One of the founders of the American Quarter Horse Association.
• Pan Zareta: Queen of the Turf by Clay Coppedge
  Pan Zareta, the greatest filly in horse racing history, known affectionately as the "Texas Whirlwind" and "Panzy," set records at race tracks in three countries over the course of six years.
• Early Days of Texas Polo by Michael Barr
• A Mustang at The Polo Club by Michael Barr
  Not all mustangs made good polo ponies, but the ones with an aptitude for the game were extraordinary.
• The Popularity of Polo by Michael Barr
  Fredericksburg was the smallest town in the country with a polo club sanctioned by the American Polo Association.
• Empty Grave by the Old Oak Tree by Mike Cox
  "In those days cattle rustling was one of the worst crimes a man could commit, and it brought upon the culprit the same swift and sure punishment as was administered to a murderer."
• The Horse Thief's Prayer by Mike Cox
• Fine Texas Horses by Clay Coppedge
• Kleberg, Hirsch and Assault: Three of a Kind by Clay Coppedge
• Ben K. Green by Clay Coppedge
  Of the many who have been called Texas writers no one was more Texan than Ben K. Green, who wrote the classic �Horse Tradin�� and several other wildly entertaining and mostly true books. That book and the bestsellers that followed were written late in his life after he had spent five decades around horses. Ben Green knew horses and he knew people and he knew how to tell a story.
• Steel Dust by Clay Coppedge
  Old timers believed the Steelduster is a separate breed but the horses can trace back to single horse named Steel Dust.
• Wichita Falls Falls for Flim Flam Brit by Mike Cox
  Before the wild oil boom that came with the discovery of a rich field, Wichita Falls was just a cattle town of around 5,000 folks...
• Old Whip by C. F. Eckhardt
  "Then came April, 1836. Santa Anna and his army showed up on Vince�s doorstep. The family promptly fled, leaving their stock behind�including Old Whip. Santa Anna immediately appropriated the stallion for his own use..."
• Max Hirsch, Healer and Winner Clay Coppedge
  Max Hirsch, and Assault, the only Triple Crown winner from Texas.
• Max Hirsch - Wizard of the Race Track by Michael Barr
• Buffalo horses and outlaw cattle by Delbert Trew
  When old-time ranchers and cowboys gather, they talk for hours recalling every horse they rode and telling the reasons for his worth...
• Camp Elizabeth
  The camp was described as a rock corral for horses, officers quarters and tents for the enlisted men. A farrier had space to work and between the camp and the river, the land was used to break horses and / or teach horsemanship...
• Buck's Horse by Mike Cox
  Frontiersmen James Buckner �Buck� Barry and his horse...
• Horse hobbles were a vital tool by Delbert Trew
  Of all the cowboy gear used down through history, horse hobbles are among the most important. These restraints around the front legs of your mount allowed him to graze in a limited fashion yet kept him from traveling very far or very fast...
• The Horse Marines by Clay Coppedge
  Considering how much Texas history has occurred on horseback it isn�t surprising to learn that one of the Republic�s greatest naval victories was achieved by 20 or so armed and mounted rangers known to history as the Texas Horse Marines...
• Horses enabled Comanches to rule Texas by Delbert Trew
  Comanche culture was built around the use of horses for all reasons. Many stories and theories have been written about how the Indians acquired horses.
• The Murder Maverick by C. F. Eckhardt
  If you�ve ridden many miles on the sunset side of the Colorado and listened to people talk in bars and cafes, you�ve heard a good many tales. Once you get west of the Pecos, there�s one in particular you�ll hear. You�ll hear the tale of a phantom steer called �the Murder Maverick.�...
• The Seabiscuit Stamp: How It Came To Be by Maggie Van Ostrand
  On May 11th, a 44-cent rate-change stamp featuring the great thoroughbred racehorse, Seabiscuit, will be issued by the U.S. Postal Service. This stamp is significant for one huge reason: We the people did it! It took us eight long years...
• Hair-raising stories from pioneer days by Delbert Trew
  If you had lived before, during and immediately after the Civil War and had been seriously wounded, your life might have depended on the hair from a horse's tail. How could this be? Well listen up to some "hair" stories.
• Yalgo, the legendary horse by Clay Coppedge
  "Even when involved with outlawry and banditry, the horse is always blameless� In that blameless way of horses, Yalgo is linked to King Fisher's first foray into a life of crime."
• Last Cavalry Horse by Mike Cox
  "That cold winter morning, Dec.14, 1932, was a sad one for old-time horse soldiers and civilians alike at Fort D.A. Russell in Marfa -- they both realized they were witnessing the end of an era."
• Bold CSA Vet Thomas Evans Riddle, & Man o� War by Mike Cox
  "Thomas Evans Riddle bet on a dead racehorse. He lost.
  The horse was Man o� War..."
• Racing Parson by Mike Cox
  How a preacher held a horse race and build a church
• Find Two Willies and a Max In Hall of Fame, At Tracks by Bill Bradfield
  Texas ranches and stables have been closely linked with the sport of horse racing for generations. Just consider the string of great racehorses developed by the King Ranch alone... For another kind of horseracing royalty, however, turn to two men nicknamed Willie, and another man better known as Max at the tracks.
• Two Braids by Mike Cox
  More Texans owned horses than automobiles in 1910, but when the middle-aged man rode into Eagle Pass that summer, people noticed.
• That Old Steer by Archie P. McDonald, PhD
• Meant for Each Other by Maggie Van Ostrand
  Certain living things are meant for each other, whether it be a caballo and a canine, or a lady and a lake.
• Primadonna's Birthday
  Miniature horses and Monastery of Saint Claire
• First Horses by Delbert Trew
• Just an Old Nag Con by Mike Cox
  Cartoons by Rober T Moore
• Assault, Texas' only Triple Crown Winner
  Light verses & poetry by David Knape
• Mustangs
• Feeding A Horse
• White Horses in a Darkened Field

Buffalo

• Separating buffalo fact from fiction by Delbert Trew
• Buffalo Bones by Mike Cox
• Rocks Covered Texas by Mike Cox
• Buffalo, bull fight a dud by Delbert Trew
• Bone Haulers Clay Coppedge
• Buffalo horses and outlaw cattle by Delbert Trew
• White Buffalo by Mike Cox
• Mary Ann Goodnight and the Texas State Bison Herd by Linda Kirkpatrick
• Buffalo slaughter had benefits by Delbert Trew
• Buffalo Man by Mike Cox
• Last Buffalo by Mike Cox
• Rawhides: Business in Wild and Woolly Tee Pee City by Mike Cox
• Buffalo Herds by Delbert Trew
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore
• Last Buffalo Hunt
• Buffalo Bone Boom
• Wanton Killing of the Buffalo

Coyotes & Foxes

• Fox in the Pickup Bed by C. F. Eckhardt
  When the Burnham brothers of Marble Falls first created the varmint call, back in the '50s, the devices were nowhere near as sophisticated as they are today...
• Coyotes� Story by Stephen Osmon
  Coyotes� Story of the Great Spirit, from "TUMBLEWEEDS' TALES: Ghost Towns and Town Ghosts"

• Camels by Mike Cox
  Funny how someone can get saddled with something another person ought to get the credit � or blame � for. Take Jefferson Davis...
• When Camels Came to Texas by Murray Montgomery
• Loose Camel History Cartoon by Roger Todd Moore
• Humps In The Road Poem by David Knape

Love Never Dies - The Rainbow Is a Two-Way Bridge by Maggie Van Ostrand Cejas and the Great Escape by Maggie Van Ostrand His story is much like anybody else's, filled with both sad and joyous times, and a lot of luck � he didn't get out of Tijuana by himself. He had the help of many, including angels, perhaps Santo Toribio Romo Gonz�lez, Mexico's ghostly benefactor of "illegal aliens," and a quick-witted grandmother. Woof! by Maggie Van Ostrand

	The Short Yet Semi-Happy Life of Zip the Dog by Mel Brown Ever since seeing an old movie long ago titled �The Biscuit Eater� I have been enamored of coon dogs. Something about their especially soulful faces and incredible voices has always touched me deeply...

	Smithville's Dexter - From Underdog to Best of (Picture) Show by Ted R. Krueger "Adena Lewis called asking us to bring our dogs to a casting call for the movie "The Tree of Life" that was soon to be filmed in Smithville. The director, Terrence Malick, wanted the "hero dog" (to be called "Shep" in the movie) to be an untrained dog..."

• Killer Wolf Old Three Toe by Mike Cox
• The Green Carpet by Maggie Van Ostrand
• The Night the Ghost Hounds Came by C. F. Eckhardt
• Small Perfection by Dianne West Short
  A large, old black dog showed up on my sister Joanne�s doorstep, thirsty and hot...
• Dog Drinks Water - Saves Town by Mike Cox
  Just about everyone has heard the expression �sick as a dog,� and most people have occasionally felt that way, but folks in the town of Hubbard once credited their economic heyday to a sick pooch.
• The Pithy Tale of Owney, the Post Office Pup by Maggie Van Ostrand
  Owney was a muttly terrier who rose from the ranks of the homeless to celebrity status with his image on the newly issued U.S. Forever postage stamp. His life was that of a courageous 19th-Century pioneer pup, fighting the odds, if not the Indians...
• East Texas Traditions by Bob Bowman
  One of the hottest controveries that ever erupted in East Texas occurred in the sixties when several cities decided that dogs ought to be stopped from running loose on the streets...
• What a difference a week makes by Peary Perry
  Last week I wrote a column about Buddy, my pound pooch who was in the hospital and not expected to live...
• Go Gently Into The Long Night by Peary Perry
  When I walked into the dog pound in San Antonio ten years ago and saw that little gray dog that looked just like Tramp in the movie ... �Lady and the Tramp� I should have kept on going...
• A whale of a tale? No - try wolves by Delbert Trew
  The annihilation of the buffalo brought about many sad consequences..., another species of the prairie, the Lobo wolf, was also annihilated...
• On Dogs by Peary Perry
  By the time you get to be my age, you would think I would know better than to do the following: ... buy someone a dog...
• "Dog days of summer"
• Jim Reeves and Cheyenne by Bob Bowman
• With A Pit Bull On My Knee by Clay Coppedge
  My first dog was named Cisco in honor of a popular television hero of the day, the Cisco Kid. The Cisco Kid and his trusty sidekick Pancho rode the frontier fighting evil and injustice. In his own way, Cisco did the same thing...
• Unsung heros at the Battle of Adobe Walls by Delbert Trew
• Hot Rabbit Sets the Woods on Fire by N. Ray Maxie
  Ark-La-Tex area sportsmen often enjoy hunting wild brush rabbits. Some even make a specialty of it. Often folk are so �into it� they get themselves a couple of Beagle hounds...
• Have Ashes, Will Travel by Maggie Van Ostrand
  Markus, my beloved canine companion who had been with me for over 14 adventure filled years, had passed away...
• True to Breed by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
• Sadie�s Christmas Angel by Kathleene S. Baker
  Sadie of Corpus Christi, sometimes it takes a dog to bring out the best in humans.
• Jesus by Mike Cox
  When old �Hay-sus� died that winter afternoon, just about everyone in Eagle Pass mourned.
• Greenies by Peary Perry
  My source is late; he�s never been late before. ... I can�t leave without the package. My dog will never forgive me if I come home empty handed....
• Ninotchka by Maggie Van Ostrand
  She was a blue-eyed creature of enormous beauty, so beautiful that she was named after a Greta Garbo film heroine. You'd be proud to take her anywhere, as she was always perfectly attired. She was a magnificent Siberian Husky.
• Dogs figure in life's fondest memories by Delbert Trew
• Meant for Each Other by Maggie Van Ostrand
  Certain living things are meant for each other, whether it be a caballo and a canine, or a lady and a lake.
• Tuffy the East Texas Chow by John Troesser
  The "Junk Yard Dog" as Teddy-Bear
• Dogs in Church by Murray Montgomery
  Vintage Wit from Gonzales County
• Rusty, The Panhandle Chihuahua
• Sugar, The Friendliest Dog on the Red River
• "Please Don't Kill Brownie." Excerpted from The Kountze News
  Like they say in East Texas, this might just make your eyes sour up a little.
  Light verse and poetry by d.knape
• Basset Hounds
• Satchel's Poem
• Stray
• My Dog
• Faces
• The Tail Of The Dog
• A boy, A dog
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore
• Taxing Fights
• Roby's Voting Dog

• How I Became a Cat Person by Jase Graves 1-17-24
• The cat who came in from the cold by Wanda Orton
• Bess Kennedy the lady lion hunter by Mike Cox
• Skeletons in Old Fort McKavett by Mike Cox
  "Cats generally were not brought West as pets, though some certainly were. Most felines participated in the American westward movement because they helped control rodents. Little known is that cats even became livestock, with entrepreneurial types transporting them westward with the intent of selling them at a considerable profit. Whether hoax or real, some have even claimed that there were a few cat ranches where felines were raised specifically to be sold as mousers."
• Tiger Hunt in Mills County by Mike Cox
• The Black Beast of the Pineywoods by Dana Goolsby
  Legends of black cats run deeper than a little superstition in East Texas. Sightings of mysterious black panthers that scream like women in the pine jungles are not at all uncommon in the Pineywoods...
• A Lion and a Boy by Mike Cox
• The mayor and the lion by Bob Bowman
  Years ago, when Pitser Garrison was the mayor of Lufkin, a young African lion was born at Ellen Trout Zoo.
• Panthers in the Moonlight by William Beauchamp
  My grandmother�s description of the panther screams she heard growing up in the country � I finally heard for myself...
• Lion Hunt by Mike Cox
  Two days after Christmas in 1899, several score Austin �sportsmen� saddled their horses and called up their dogs for a Texas-style fox hunt, only the quarry would be a mountain lion, not a fox.
• Remembering Alexander and the "Fattest Kitten" in Erath County
  by Duby Joe Moore
• A Cat Named Lazarus by Dorothy Hamm
• Panther in Rural Shade
  Poems by David Knape
• Lap Cat
• Lap Cats
• Cat & Mouse
• Stray Cat
• Fancy Cat
• Mind If I Curl Up In Your Lap?
• Cat Seats
• Let Sleeping Cats Lie
• Cat Relations

Mules

• In Praise of the Unappreciated Mule by Clay Coppedge
• The truth behind 20-Mule Teams by Delbert Trew
• There's more to Borax than one might think by Delbert Trew
• Americans moved West on the backs of mules by Delbert Trew
• "Ten-Gallon Hats / Pint-Sized Brains" by Mike Cox
• Mule by Delbert Trew
• Mules (From Book Snippets by Mike Cox)
• A Gonzales County Rite of Passage by Dawson Minear
  Taming the mules
• First Mules by Delbert Trew
• Trans-Texas Travels and Circling Mules in Austin by Mike Cox

	Armadillos by C. F. Eckhardt This is gonna come as a surprise to a lot of folks, but armadillos are not native to Texas. In fact, the very first armadillo ever identified in the Lone Star State apparently crossed the Rio Grande near Brownsville in 1859...

• The Armadillo and the West Pole by Clint Skinner
• Armadillo Shell Baskets were Big Business in Comfort by Michael Barr
• Nine-banded Armadillo by Bonnie Wroblewski
• The First Armadillo Poem by Robert G. Cowser
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore
• Armadillo Official Mascot of Texas
• Armadillo
• Armadillo Forecast

Bear, Boars and Pigs

• Polar Bear Bites Rancher by Michael Barr
• Roy Bean's Bad News Bear by Clay Coppedge
• Bear Mountain by Michael Barr
• Killing of the Last Big Grizzly in Texas by Mike Cox
• Wallisville Goes Hog Wild by Wanda Orton
• West Texas Black Bear Kills an East Texas Man Named Brown by Mike Cox
• Blackie the Bear by Mike Cox
  Nickels were hard to come by in the tough economic times of the early 1890s, but the cowboys patronizing Jim Scarborough�s saloon in Claude never minded standing Blackie a drink when they could afford to...
• As sure as fences break, we'll still need barbed wire by Delbert Trew
• Pig War by Clay Coppedge
• Black Bears Return to East Texas by Dana Goolsby
• Hog Drives of Frio Canyon Texas by Linda-Kirkpatrick
• Hog Stories by Mike Cox
• Hog Killing Time by Mike Cox
• Grin and Bear It by Milton Babb
• The Big Thicket Bear Hunters Club of Kountze by W. T. Block Jr.
• Razorback Hogs by Bob Bowman
• Boys will be boys - and also troublemakers by Delbert Trew
• Beaumont, the Wild Boar of Doan's Crossing
• Ralph, the Swimming Pig
• Bear Attack in Sabine County
• Dickens Texas, unofficial wild boar capital of Texas
• Hog Heaven Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
• Pigs Discovered Oil Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
• Berlin Bear - sculpture
  Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
• Taxing Fights

"Hog Waddle, Cabbage Day, San Benito, Texas"
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/

Elephants

• Elephant Execution in Witchita Falls by Mike Cox
• Elephantine Memories by Dianne West Short
• Jumble by Bob Bowman
  The forgotten towns of East Texas got their names from a varrity of ways--from people, places, events...even geological landmarks. But Jumbo, in Panola County, is the only town to be named for an elephant.
• The Day the Elephant died in Flatonia
• Elephant by Mike Cox
  A wild cowboy tale.
• Elephant Stampede by Murray Montgomery
• "Little Butch" Comes to Gonzales by Murray Montgomery

• Alter Stolz Solves an Image Problem at FHS by Michael Barr 12-17-20
• Gillespie County Goat Becomes Navy Mascot by Michael Barr 2-15-20
• Sheep often taken for granted by Delbert Trew
• George Kendall by Clay Coppedge
• Oil Field Humor by Fred B. McKinley
• Running of the Sheep by Audrey A. Herbrich
• Amos, the Goat Protector from Dripping Springs
• The Weimar Goatherd by Norman Conquest
• The Grandfalls Goat Parade
• Dixieland - Sheep Ranch
  Light verse and poetry by d.knape
• Old Goat

	Barred Owl by Bonnie Wroblewski Standing 16-25 inches tall and with wingspans of up to 4ft, these large, ear-tuft-less raptors are commonly known as the eight hooter or rain, hoot, striped, or wood owl...

	Sandhill Crane by Bonnie Wroblewski Honored as symbols of marital fidelity and conjugal bliss throughout Southeast Asia,... gruids have a celebrated reputation for monogamy in folklore as well as in scientific investigations.

• Dove Hunting and the $24 Doctor Bill by Mike Cox
• The Great Ostrich Race by Mike Cox
• A fowl insurrection, The Chicken War by Clay Coppedge
• The Chicken War by Archie P. McDonald
• Quails by Mike Cox
• Purple Martins by Judith D. Mitchell
• Talking Texas Turkey by Mike Cox
• Pausing by Reelfoot Lake Poem by Robert G. Cowser
• Mystery Ducks in Kerrville Park
• Buzzards by Ken Rudine
• Bastrop County's (Post-) Revolutionary Rooster by Mike Cox
• Caddo Lake Wildlife
• Turkeys and Tenderfeet by Clay Coppedge
• Turkeys' use of old windmill towers a twist by Delbert Trew
• Sweet Pea The Hen
• Turkey Hunt by Mike Cox
• Cooper�s Hawks by Houston's Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education
• Roadrunner - AKA Chaparral by Ken Rudine
• Egrets - From Aliens Amongst Us by C.F. Eckhardt
• South Llano River State Park by Clay Coppedge
• Wills Point - Bluebird Capital of Texas by Ken Rudine.
• Image from High Island Texas
• Sandhill Cranes in Comanche County
• Sandhill Cranes in La Ward by Ken Rudine
• Turkeys Gone Wild by Peary Perry
• Boys will be boys - and also troublemakers by Delbert Trew
  An old Leghorn rooster
• Killer Vultures by Clay Coppedge
• Duck Fight by Mike Cox
• Rooster by Mike Cox
• Lechuza by Mike Cox
• Just an Old Nag Con by Mike Cox
• Paisano Sue, Toyahvale Hall Of Roadrunner Fame
• Collision in Downtown Mentone! or The Loneliness of the Long Distance Roadrunner by John Troesser
• Herding Turkeys in Clara
• Telferner - Road Runner in Traffic Photo only
• Waring - Turkey
• Prairie Chickens
• Stonecutter's Carving of Bird Photo only
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore
• April 26, 1837: Audubon Comes to Texas
• Snow Goose
• Texas Angus
• Turkey Trot
  Light verse and poetry by d.knape
• Easy Pickings 12-13-22
• Little Wren
• Pecking Order
• Free as a Bird
• The Poet and the Mockingbird
• Hoot Owl
• Building a Nest
• Old Crow
• Wren at Our Window
• The Fledgling
• Grackles
• Mourning Dove
• Silent Wings
• Birds & Windows
• Mockingbird Aria
• Dance of Birds
• Wild Geese
• National Symbol
• Grackle
• Turkey Brains
• A Nest Of Baby Birds
• Swallows
• The Hummingbird Named Brutus
• Egret by the Freeway
• Watching Buzzards
• The Common Sparrow
• Laughing Gulls
• Caracara
• Atop a Tree
• Song Of The Mockingbird

	Ornate Box Turtle by Bonnie Wroblewski Determinedly plodding across grazed pastures, open woodlands, prairies, and sandy-soiled lowlands across Texas, ornate box turtles are so named for the distinctive yellowish lines radiating across the dark brownish to black background of their carapaces...

• The Clever Fisherman by Mike Cox
• Dallas Fair Park: Children's Aquarium by Clint Skinner
• Captain Barnett's Traveling Whale Show by Murray Montgomery
• Hunting (and Fishing) for the Truth by Mike Cox
• Steamship Concho
• Legalizing noodling by Bob Bowman
• The Chilled Catfish of Concho County by Mike Cox
• Fishing in Port Aransas by Mike Cox
• Yankee Sawfish by Mike Cox
• Fishing Hogg by Mike Cox
• The do's, don'ts and wonders of having pet turtles by Delbert Trew
• Fishing Soldier by Mike Cox
• Turtle hunt leaves us shellshocked by Delbert Trew
• Little One-Hearted Stock Tank by Clay Coppedge
• The Unholy Catfish by Clay Coppedge
• Fly Fishing Is Not Always Pretty by Clay Coppedge
• The 700-pound shark in Galveston Bay by Mike Cox
  Light verse and poetry by d.knape
• Teach a man to fish
• Goldfish Heaven
• Whale Fall
• Behold the Whale
• Mobile Home
• Goldfish
• Turtles
• Catching Weeds
• Whales
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore
• Cloud dropped fish in Fort Worth, 1985
• Raining Fish

Snakes

• Drugstore Cowboys by Clay Coppedge
  Peddling snake oil

• Snakebitten Family by Mike Cox

• Small Town Rumors by Dianne West Short

• A Snakebitten Legacy by Clay Coppedge

• Vibrating 'critter' frightens rattlesnake-wary cowboy by Delbert Trew

• Rattlesnakes in Corn Field (From Thurber Brick by Mike Cox)

• For goodness sakes: Seems I'm done being rattled by Delbert Trew

• Rattlesnakes (From Book Snippets by Mike Cox)

• Boys will be boys - and also troublemakers by Delbert Trew
  A pet bull snake

• Adventures in Egg Gathering by Neal Crausbay

• Neta's Snake Tale from a Desert Oasis
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore

• 1854 - Rattlesnake in Karnes County

• Rattlesnake Sacking Contest

• Western Pygmy Rattlesnake

• Horned Toads by Mike Cox

• Horny Toad Hypnosis by Clay Coppedge

• Horned toads part of every Texas boy's life by Mike Cox

• Horned Toad named "Big Jim" History Cartoon by Roger T. Moore

Toads

• Red-spotted Toad by Bonnie Wroblewski, Dove Key Ranch Wildlife Rehabilitation
• Tale of the Toad Poem by David Knape

Lizards

• Six-lined Racerunner by Bonnie Wroblewski
• The Lizard Story Poem by David Knape
• Finding Its Way Poem by David Knape
• Lizard Poem by David Knape

• What we know about the state dinosaur by Clay Coppedge 7-1-18
• The Plight of the Pleurocoeleus by Clay Coppedge
• Glen Rose

Deer

• Deer Antlers by Mike Cox
• Mystery Solved by Bob Bowman
• Billy the mail carrier of Weimar by Mike Cox
• Buck Moon

• Old Bill the Menger Alligator by Michael Barr
• Phantom Alligators by Clay Coppedge
• Gator by Mike Cox
• Alligators by Peary Perry
• Tony "The Alligator" in Denison postcard

• Celebrating the Fire Ant by Michael Barr
• Killer Mosquitos of Green Lake by Mike Cox
• Let it beeeeeeee by Wanda Orton
• Grasshoppers' attacks on region no sci-fi tale by Delbert Trew
• Tick trouble takes 30 years to terminate by Delbert Trew
• The Boll Weevil by Archie P. McDonald
• Bugs provided hours of entertainment by Delbert Trew
• Bug Huntin' by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
  Light verse and poetry by d.knape
• Bugs Under Rocks
• Caterpillars
• The Short Life of a Pill Bug
• Goodbye Fly
• Acrobats
• Requiem For Moth
• Yellow Jacket
• Texas Cockroach
• Butterfly
• Obituary
• Adding Insult
• Flies by Night
• June Bugs
• Mud Daubers
• Firefly Nights
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore
• Meridian, Texas Chiggerfest
• Boll Weevil
• Mosquito Festival
• Marshall Fire Ant Festival
• Marshall Fire Ant Festival

	Bats by Clay Coppedge

• Saltpeter and Bat Bombs by Clay Coppedge
• The Little Engine That Couldn't: The Fredericksburg & Northern Railroad by C. F. Eckhardt
  "...The tunnel is still there, all 920 feet of it inhabited, in the fall, winter, and spring, by millions of bats. The bat flight from the tunnel at dusk resembles rising smoke...."
• Railroad in the Red, and Brazilian Bats by Mike Cox
  "Some three million Brazilian free-tailed bats live in the abandoned tunnel from May through October each year, along with a much smaller population of Cave myotis bats."
• Lady Bird Lake, formerly Town Lake, Austin
• Devil's Sinkhole State Natural Area - Rocksprings, Texas
  The Devils Sinkhole is the largest single chamber cavern in the state of Texas and third deepest measuring over 350 feet deep. The cave is home to 1 to 4 million Mexican-Free tail bats during the summer ...
• The Big Bang at Blowout by Michael Barr
• Bats in the Belfry by Frances Giles
• Bat Bombs "Moore Texas Cartoon"

Possums

• The Year of the Possum by Jase Graves 10-31-23
• Night Visitor Poem by David Knape
• Oh Possum Poem by David Knape

Squirrels

• Shorty the Squirrel
• A Poem for Stumpy Poem by David Knape
• Like Children Poem by David Knape
• Squirrel's Tale Poem by David Knape

Rabbits

• Jackrabbit Stew and Other Delicacies by Michael Barr 11-1-23
• Jackalopes by Mike Cox
• Rabbit Drive by Mike Cox
• Odessa - Jackrabbit
• Old-timers' tales - true or not by Delbert Trew
• The Celebrated Jackrabbit Roundup of Castro County
  Cartoons by Roger T. Moore
• Texas Jackrabbit
• Jack Rabbit Roping
  Poems by David Knape
• A Rabbit Story
• Mr. Easter Rabbit

Reindeer

• The Reindeer of Texas by Clay Coppedge
• The Truth About Rudolph by Maggie Van Ostrand

Skunks

• Deadly Skunk by Mike Cox
• The Skunk War by Mike Cox
• Striped Skunk by Bonnie Wroblewski
• Skunk Oil, Jackrabbits, and Red Roosters by Lois Zook Wauson
• Pederson Creek offered unique privileges by Delbert Trew
• From gunslingers to skunks, varmints took toll on Dodge City by Delbert Trew

Mythical Creatures

• Chupacabra by Mike Cox
  Does a zoologically unknown, blood-sucking creature prowl the South Texas mesquite?

General

• Madstone Magic by Clay Coppedge
  "[A] good madstone was believed to be the only cure for the fatal misfortune of rabies."
• Making Leather at Itz Tannery by Michael Barr
• Drive-by Safari by Jase Graves
• A poacher & two lawmen in the Thicket by Mike Cox
• Dallas Fair Park - Pan American Arena by Clint Skinner
• Ghost Turkey and Hitchhiking Spirits by Mike Cox
• Dams make water, wild creatures return by Delbert Trew
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge by Maryanne Gobble
• It was burdensome training the beasts by Delbert Trew
• Animal stories and other true, but fowl tales by Delbert Trew
• With all these critters, I never really feel lonesome by Delbert Trew
• Trivia by Mike Cox
• More News of the Odd by Mike Cox
• Eagle Eyes of Texas by Johnny Stucco
• Aliens Amongst Us by C. F. Eckhardt
• Feeding Frenzy by Peary Perry
• Country cures tame pesky farm critters by Delbert Trew
• The Quadrangle
• Muleshoe, Texas
• Dead Animal Hauler Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
• Killer Hailstones Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
• Godly Humor by David Knape

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