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 spiny pocket mouse is unique in its genus in possessing five rather than six tubercles on the hind foot. The Mexican spiny pocket mouse is endemic to parts of Texas and Mexico. Its range extends from just north of the Rio Grande southwards to the Mexican Plateau, its southernmost limit being Zapotitlán in the state of Oaxaca. It is found in dry shrubland at altitudes of up to . In regions where their ranges overlap, it occurs in drier, upland habitats than the painted spiny pocket mouse ("Liomys pictus"). It is not normally present in areas with less than of annual rainfall. Four