Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
I, for one, am getting a camel. I like the way their eyes look, and they'd fit right into the climate in north Texas. Until he comes in, I'm taking mass transportation.
Don't get a camel unless you plan on riding in a desert - they don't do well on other terrain. The U.S. Army bought some camels in the 19th century, and found them to be useless.

There's an excellent episide or the old TV western series on a DVD box set that I have (which you may be familiar with), called Have Gun Will Travel,, c. 1958 which stars Richard Boone as a hired gunfighter named Paladin, who buys one of these ex-U.S. Army Camels for a job he's hired for.