armadillo sporran

[Colonel MacNeal]

You could use Rattlesnake tails for the tassels.

[The Wizard of BC]

But, but, where is the Lone Star Long Neck bottle???????

You see during my time in TX it was a sort of tradition that whenever you saw a road killed armadillo you are required to stop, flip him on his back, and place a beer bottle in his paws.

It just doesn't seem right without the Lone Star Beer bottle.

[dfmacliam]

That's how they taxidermy armadillos with a bottle of lone star beer

[tyger]

OK, I think we need to show Dasypus novemcinctus Mexicanus a little more respect! Who else (among other things) can sustain prolonged oxygen depletion, quickly recover that debt, has delayed implantation (I mean, like 90 days or something really huge) of the ovoblast, and bears identical quadruplets every time? An incredible animal.

[Tartan Hiker]

And don't forget that they are the only mammal species other than humans that are known to contract Hanson's disease (leprosy). That has to count for something.

My sporran recommendation is to make tassels out of something hard...that way the drumming will announce your arrival well before your corporeal appearance.

[tyger]

Actually, they don't contract leprosy because they do not develop the disease. They do get infected, and they do (can) become carriers of the mycobacterium. A fine distinction, but an important one we should all remember. There is a world of difference between getting an infection, and developing a disease.

[Tartan Hiker]

Actually, they don't contract leprosy because they do not develop the disease. They do get infected, and they do (can) become carriers of the mycobacterium. A fine distinction, but an important one we should all remember. There is a world of difference between getting an infection, and developing a disease.

True...I was a bit careless with my language.

However, humans can indeed contract Hanson's from contact with armadillos, as was demonstrated by the poor saps who did just that after they went into business collecting dillos for the Hanson's research unit that used to operate out of Carrville, Louisiana.

[Colonel MacNeal]

And don't forget that they are the only mammal species other than humans that are known to contract Hanson's disease (leprosy). That has to count for something.

My sporran recommendation is to make tassels out of something hard...that way the drumming will announce your arrival well before your corporeal appearance.

That's another reason I suggested rattlesnake tails.

[Zardoz]

OK, I think we need to show Dasypus novemcinctus Mexicanus a little more respect!

Actually the the armadillo in question is Dasypus Novemcinctus, the Nine Banded Armadillo. Novemcinctus mexicanus is a slightly different critter. The 9 Banded 'dillo is the Texas State small mammal, the large being the Long Horn Steer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-banded_Armadillo

The 'dillo is not our only armor plated Texas animal, we have an armored lizard for the state reptile, Phrynosoma Cornutum, the Texas Horned Lizard or "Horny Toad" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_horned_lizard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_symbols