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November 7, 2014
Somebody Paid $50,000 to Name the New Baby Giraffe at the Dallas Zoo
Our new get-rich-quick scheme involves acquiring a bunch of baby giraffes.
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Stories and updates on some of the state’s many animals
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October 24, 2014
Furry Friday: Dog Costume Contest
Austin Dog Rescue is honest about how voting works. The dog that gets the most money wins.
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October 20, 2014
Horrible Video Shows a Cleburne Police Officer Calling To, Then Shooting, a Tail-Wagging Dog
Police violence toward humans is very much a topic in the news right now, so why does a video of an officer shooting a dog trigger a different sort of outrage?
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September 19, 2014
A Husky from Austin Made It All the Way to Chicago before Being Sent Home
Somebody had an adventure.
The Daily Post
August 29, 2014
Top Houston Doctors Teamed With The Houston Zoo To Save A 42-Year-Old Orangutan
After the great ape fell ill, two doctors from Texas Children's Hospital and Ben Taub Intensive Care Unit donated their services to save her life.
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August 22, 2014
Meet The Houston Zoo’s (Adorable) Clouded Leopard Cubs
Hi, clouded leopard babies! Hi hi hi!
The Daily Post
August 15, 2014
Amazing Pictures of the Houston Zoo’s Big Cats From National Geographic and Photographer Vincent J. Musi
Your move, cat pics people.
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July 24, 2014
A Tyler Family Was Reunited With Its Lost Dog After It Spent Six Years Living With A Family Who Rescued It From A Shelter
It's an impossible situation for everybody, but legal ownership goes to the people who are listed on the microchip.
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July 18, 2014
Furry Friday: Labrador and Cheetah BFFs, Amazing Chihuahuas Uniforms, and Dog-Obsessed Austin
Some updates on what's up with our furry friends.
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July 14, 2014
The Texas Tech Cheerleader Who Likes Trophy Hunting Also Likes Cuddling Baby Animals
After Facebook removed a number of Kendall Jones's photos of herself posing with animals that she hunted, she responded by posting photos of herself with some living, breathing, adorable little critters.
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July 3, 2014
A Big Rat Snake Is Ssslithering Through San Antonio’s Sssewer Lines
Probably not rats, though, if this guy is around.
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July 2, 2014
How Do We Feel About The Texas Tech Cheerleader Who’s Also A Big Game Hunter?
Kendall Jones is a Texas Tech cheerleader who became the flashpoint of Internet controversy this week for posting numerous pictures of herself with felled African creatures. Is the controversy fair?
The Daily Post
June 16, 2014
A North Austin Supermarket Has Forced Us To Learn What “Pizzle” Is
Spoiler alert: It's gross.
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May 16, 2014
A College Station Woman Found a Twelve-Foot Python in Her Freaking Bathtub
AAAAAAAAAAH!
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May 2, 2014
A Fort Worth Veterinarian Has Been Accused Of Keeping A Dog He Was Supposed To Have Euthanized Alive For Blood Transfusions
If it's true, it's a horror story.
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April 25, 2014
San Antonio Police Rescued a Donkey From the Mall and Named It JimmyChanga
No one knows what the donkey was doing at the mall, but it seemed to be having a good time.
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April 18, 2014
San Antonio Is Home to This Very Fat Kitty
This isn't actually funny.
The Daily Post
March 28, 2014
Furry Friday: Cat Rescued From Montrose Fire In Houston Is Singed, But Purring
The massive fire that took down a Montrose apartment building didn't claim this cat.
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March 21, 2014
Furry Friday: Wildlife Researchers Found A Wild Ocelot Kitten In Cameron County
The two-month old baby ocelot is big news for a very small population.
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March 7, 2014
These Blind 12-Year-Old Twins Have Some of the Best Show Goats in Texas
The Lubbock pre-teens spend six months a year showing their prize goats at livestock competitions throughout the state.
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February 28, 2014
Police Should Be Educated About Laws Surrounding Service Animals
Disabled veterans are having a rough time bringing their service dogs into businesses, despite laws allowing them to do so.
The Daily Post
February 20, 2014
Alas, This Adorable Dog Will Not Be The Next Mayor Of Irving
The taciturn candidate has been ruled ineligble due to paperwork errors.
The Daily Post
February 18, 2014
Sea World Is Still Doing Just Fine, Sea World Would Like You To Know
The beleaguered theme park strikes back at its critics with a series of videos—but given their attendance, did they need to?
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February 14, 2014
This Dog Saved an Austin Apartment Complex from a Fire
Who's a good boy? Kaiser's a good boy, that's who.
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February 7, 2014
Meet the New Baby Giraffe and Baby Sloth in Texas Zoos
Look at these lil' guys.
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January 30, 2014
A(nother) Guy Who Claims to Have Shot Bigfoot Plans to Take the Corpse on Tour
This is how you know it's a slow news week.
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January 22, 2014
Cockfighting Is Legal in Texas if It’s for “Bona Fide Experimentation for Scientific Research”
We have no idea what that actually means, either.
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January 10, 2014
This Animal May End Up Changing the Law About When Texas Can Euthanize a Dog
The story of Buddy the dog, a six-year-old golden retriever in San Antonio, could have big implications for Texas' controversial "severe bodily injury" laws that allow local animal control departments to euthanize people's pets.
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January 2, 2014
Texas Courts Can Now Include Pets in Protective Orders in Domestic Violence Cases
After eight years of lobbying, the Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies finally got the law in effect.
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December 6, 2013
The Earth Is There to Catch Us When We Fall
My life with horses.
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October 30, 2013
The Dallas Safari Club Is Trying To Preserve The Black Rhino By Killing A Black Rhino
The critically endangered black rhino needs resources and efforts from humans to avoid extinction—and what's a better way to preserve an endangered species than auctioning off the right to kill one?
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October 25, 2013
Arkansas Community Hires Pet Detective to Bring Scottish Terrier Home Safe to Texas
A Harlingen couple driving through Eastern Arkansas with their two Scottish terriers crashed their car in late September, leaving one dog dead and the other missing. But with the help of an honest-to-goodness pet detective and the Blytheville, Arkansas community, Doogie the Scottish terrier returned to Texas this week.
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August 12, 2013
The Black-tailed Prairie Dog
They might be blond, but they ain’t stupid.
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July 29, 2013
The Man Who Walks With Bears
How should we deal with exotic wild animals in captive settings? Be understanding companions, says Louis Dorfman.
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July 15, 2013
The Texas Brown Tarantula
You think you’re scared. Clarence here is about to mate for the first time. After which he’ll be killed and eaten.
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June 17, 2013
How Medieval Times Became the Largest Breeder of Pure Spanish Horses in America
The "dinner theater" chain supplies all of its castles with purebred Andalusian horses, which are all born at an unassuming ranch in Sanger, Texas.
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June 10, 2013
The Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
It’s hard out there for a turtle. Especially one that’s endangered, y’all.
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May 16, 2013
The Greater Roadrunner
Eats scorpions. Mates for life. Doesn't really say, "Beep, beep!"
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April 11, 2013
Best in Show
Training the wayward pups of Houston’s rich and famous.
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April 9, 2013
The Chupacabra
Whatever you do, don’t ask him if he’s real.
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April 8, 2013
This Two-Steppin’ Chicken Is Not What’s For Dinner
The colorful Attwater's Prairie Chicken, a bird that flourished in Texas a hundred years ago, is on the verge of extinction.
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March 26, 2013
Why The Texas Longhorn Has Such Grit
Researchers at the University of Texas mapped the genome of the Texas Longhorn and discovered its heritage is more complicated than previously thought.
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March 15, 2013
Grumpy Cat Tolerates Texas Monthly Reporter
The living meme, which has a type of dwarfism and is officially named Tardar Sauce, visited Austin last week.
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February 12, 2013
The Alligator Gar
The most misunderstood swamp creature of them all.
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January 21, 2013
Donkey, Beware!
Mystery archer killed a third donkey from the same Fort Worth pasture this week.
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January 21, 2013
‘Science’ Proves Bigfoot Is Real
A Texas scientist purports to have sequenced Sasquatch DNA.
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January 21, 2013
Happy Turkey Day!
Feast on this: Turkeys and the three Texas presidents who pardoned them. Meantime, we hope you'll pardon us for taking a break from the TMDP. See you Monday with more great posts.
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January 21, 2013
Sandy’s Furry Refugees Fly Southwest
Pets separated from their owners by Superstorm Sandy got a lift from Southwest Airlines to a no-kill shelter in California.
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January 21, 2013
Who is Mutilating the Dolphins?
Crimes against dolphins plague the Gulf of Mexico.
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January 21, 2013
Kemp’s Ridley Found on Dutch Beach to Be Released into Gulf of Mexico
But how did the critically endangered sea turtle end up in the Netherlands in the first place?