In Scurry County . . . " I think we should pass a law that we must treat horned toads as if they were a member of our own family or ourfriends ."
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Yours is a force of about 5, 800, few in number, almost cultlike actually, but strong in the love of a game which at this moment is about as huggable as a horned toad.
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Animals in Nevada include for instance scorpions, mountain lions, snakes, lizards, spiders, wolves, coyotes, foxes, ground squirrels, rabbits, falcons, ravens, desert tortoise, hawks, eagles, bobcats, sheep, deer, pronghorns, geckos, owls, bats, horned toads and more.
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The rightful owner of Yeller shows up looking for his dog and recognizing that the family has become attached to Yeller, trades the dog to Arliss for a horned toad and a home-cooked meal prepared by Travis'mother, who is an exceptional cook.
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But in the vast and desolate land around us, it was possible to entertain the fantasy that there were few humans on the planet, and that they had no more significance in the larger scheme than elk, mule deer, coyotes and horned toads.
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Location manager Mac Gordon later noted that, due to the presence of a rare " spiny black horned toad " in the area, he and his crew were forced to hire several biologists to locate any lizards in the area and move them elsewhere.
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The architect Edward M . Jones never planned to build his dream house in Ahwatukee, a subdivision in Phoenix where the Senoran desert has been scraped bare of its mesquite, brittlebush, chollas and horned toads to make room for asphalt driveways, emerald-green lawns and palm trees.
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The outbreaks have been front-page news in a county whose two biggest claims to fame occurred in the late 1920s : A violent bank robbery by a man in a Santa suit, and a horned toad that supposedly emerged alive after 31 years in a time capsule.
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The New York Times pointed out Sunday what has become sadly obvious in recent days : Two-party government in Austin, called a " great Texas tradition " in President Bush's 2000 campaign, is going the way of such other Texas traditions as horned toads and two-stepping at Gilley's.
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Knievel ( Evel's son ) appeared in a motorcycle jump that set no new record, and a young graphics designer from Vancouver did the milk trick, which was presented with close-ups of his eyes, instant replays and a quick nature film about the horned toad, which does a similar trick with blood.
