Original Herd
Stella
Stella is Constellation’s nickname. She is the daughter of Rowdy Girl and her daddy is Frosty. Stella got the name Constellation because when she was born she looked like she had black stars studded all over her little body - she has always been especially gorgeous...
Rowdy Girl
Before the sanctuary was founded, Renee purchased Rowdy Girl, an orphaned calf, for $300 from a rancher up the road at Tommy's urging with hopes of coercing her to get more involved in the cattle ranch. Renee bottle-fed Rowdy Girl and she became the conduit that...
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...
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...
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...
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 came to be. "The Original Herd" grew from 28 to 52 because during the time that she was raising the...