A one-and-a-half year-old bison was one highlight of the Moon Market Saturday, Oct. 17 on the downtown Canyon square. “Sally” is in training to be the next “Thunder,” West Texas A&M University’s mascot. She was attended by WT Herdsmen.
“People have absolutely loved her,” said Emily Montgomery, WT graduate assistant who oversees Sally’s care. “I have heard that she’s the highlight. All the kids have asked to pet her, but they can’t.”
Sally was inside a portable pen on the northeast side of the Randall County Courthouse Lawn. Although Sally has attended nearly all of Thunder’s 65 events in the past year to get her accustomed to crowds, all bison are considered undomesticated. However, Montgomery did have a piece of bison fur that children could touch…