Mexican Boarders Mexican Boarders Mexican Boarders is a 1962 Looney Tunes cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng. Voice actors are Mel Blanc (doing the voices of Sylvester the Cat and Speedy Gonzales), and Daws Butler as the narrator. The cartoon has Sylvester trying to catch Speedy in a house they share in Mexico. Sylvester switches targets when Slowpoke Rodriguez, Speedy's cousin, comes to visit. This is the second and final classic Looney Tunes short (after "Mexicali Shmoes") to feature Slowpoke Rodriguez. Speedy Gonzales, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico", is living in the "fine hacienda of José Álvaro Meléndez" in an unnamed
Mexican volcano mouse Mexican volcano mouse The Mexican volcano mouse ("Neotomodon alstoni") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to high elevation areas of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Merriam originally described the Mexican volcano mouse as one of three species in the genus "Neotomodon"; "N. alstoni" was moved to the deer mouse genus "Peromyscus" in 1979, then subsequently moved back to "Neotomodon". Merriam does not state after whom the species is named in his original description for the genus (and species). Despite the current taxonomy, a recent phylogeny based on cytochrome-b sequences shows "Peromyscus" to be polyphyletic, and the authors