Bats!
They’re ugly little things, but you’ve got to respect them.
Stories and updates on some of the state’s many animals
They’re ugly little things, but you’ve got to respect them.
Now is the time to unlearn everything you’ve ever heard about snakebite.
Zoos are fine for people, but they make animals go crackers.
Fighting over a black neighborhood in Austin; corralling the irascible Bull of the Brazos; fussing and feuding with the DAR; monkeying around with the San Antonio Zoo.
Horses are expensive, finicky, and a pain to groom. They are also irresistible.
Cockfighting is probably cruel and certainly illegal, which are only two reasons that attract its aficionados.
A good country dog is loyal, obedient, and knows the difference between a chicken and a possum.
Once you let a goat in your life, you can never get it out.
Living in the country is all you ever wanted—and probably more than you bargained for.
Especially not in Sweetwater: the score at last count was Humans 10,000, Rattlers 0.
The cockroach. What else?
People bring their gangly quarter horse colts to Bubba Werner to transform into winners. Now and again, he does.
Can Bubbles find happiness in a 30-foot tank?
How the Dallas SPCA got itself indicted for cruelty to animals, and other shaggy dog stories.
Ringside as two dogs—father and son—fight to the death.
Cuddling up to a thousand pounds of ravenous hunger.
A guide to Texas zoos: living like an animal is better than it’s ever been.
America is alive and well at the Houston Livestock Show.
Forget your Dallas cowboys and your Houston Astros. Texas’ real champions count birds once a year at freeport. They’re not bird watchers, they’re birders. And therein lies a tail.