Original Herd
Rowdy Girl
Renée bought the cow she calls Rowdy Girl as a calf for $300 from her husband. She bottle-fed her and gave her all the love, nurturing and protection she wished she could give to all of the calves born on the ranch. A few years later, Rowdy Girl gave birth to her own...
Houdini
Houdini is our natural escape artist – indirectly she is the real reason that I told my husband that I was gonna follow the red trailer down the road to the sale barn if he took the babies one more time to auction. Because Houdini was Rowdy Girl’s baby, I used her as...
Panda
Panda is the cow that used to scare the daylights out of me because of her horns. In fact when I first moved to the ranch I thought she was a bull because I didn’t know girl cows could have horns. I’ve learned all kinds of interesting things living out here. Panda...
Spot
Spot is the oldest cow in the herd – she is about 19 years old. She was here when Tommy moved to the ranch in 2001. She was most likely born around 1998. She’s never given Tommy any problems – she is one of the best cows in the herd. She’s friendly, and such a...
Tippy
Before I started the sanctuary project, I named this calf Tippy and Tommy told me I shouldn’t name him because he was going to be going to the sale barn. I told him NO, he wasn’t going, and in fact, NONE of the babies were going this time - that I couldn’t stand for...
Agape
Agape is part of the original herd. She has been here since before Rowdy Girl was a sanctuary. She has seen and experienced her babies being taken away from her on the red trailer time and time again. Agape has been apart of the sadness I've witnessed as a rancher's...
Lucky
Lucky is Rowdy Girl’s first born – I call him Lucky because he escaped out of the red trailer last February when Tommy was taking the final cattle run to the sale barn – He is a bull calf. So, the beautiful picture about all of this is that Rowdy Girl has never had...
Roo
Affectionately called Roobadoo, he is a pure Mustang rescued off the range from our niece. We have had him here a couple years. He has one blue eye and one brown eye and if you look just right, I swear you’ll see a unicorn glistening in the light. He is a very...
Lemuria
Lemuria is my first horse. Tommy traded our bull Warty for him about 5 years ago and when we first got him his name was Diablo which translates to Devil. I didn’t like that name and he had a temperament that was pretty devilish so I changed his name to Lemuria after...
The Herd
The original herd that Renee acquired through donations around the world from followers that were attracted to their story in Texas is how the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary come to be. "The Herd" has grown from 28 to 37 because during the time that she was raising the funds,...
