| 1 | * AccidentalAesop: Screaming at a dog and hitting him with a broom whenever he enters the yard (or misbehaves in general) won't teach him to stay out of the yard--it'll only teach him to be afraid of you. |
| 2 | * AdaptationDisplacement: Many readers are unaware that the franchise actually began as a series of magazine stories (which are among the stories later collected in the anthology novella ''The Devil in Texas''). |
| 3 | * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given his advanced age as the series progresses and how fast he tends to forget, mishear, and misinterpret a lot of things, is Hank simply a GeniusDitz, or perhaps experiencing early stage dementia and/or partial hearing loss? |
| 4 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: |
| 5 | ** After the books started to include two songs per book, every once in a while a song would become this. Two good examples are "Saddle-up Overture in C-Maybe" and "Where Were We?" |
| 6 | ** Many chapters of ''Drover’s Secret Life'' do absolutely nothing to advance the plot. Justified in that it fits [[CloudCuckoolander Drover’s personality]]. |
| 7 | * EnsembleDarkHorse: [[EnsembleDarkHorse/HankTheCowdog Has its own page.]] |
| 8 | * NauseaFuel: In ''A Dog's Life'' we learn what happens when Buzzards get mad. "They ''throw up'' on the party that made 'em unhappy". Which is gross enough, but then you take into account what a Buzzard's diet consists of... [[{{Squick}} Yeah]] (also TruthInTelevision). Let's just say that Rip and Snort learned a very important lesson in that book. Hank himself was so grossed out that in later books he refuses to even talk about it. This gets a repeat performance in ''The Case of the Prowling Bear'', when he tries to hit Hank with it after being forced to say, "Thank you." |
| 9 | * MoralEventHorizon: [[HellishHorse Tuerto]] in the eighth book crosses this when he tries to trample Amy and Ashley. Unlike the previous incident with Hank and Drover, the girls weren't even bothering him; it seems like he wanted to harm them [[ForTheEvulz just because he could]]. |
| 10 | * PeripheryDemographic: Erickson initially wrote the books for adults. He was a little surprised when he discovered that it was mostly kids that were the ones who were reading them. But he ran with it, and is still going strong today. |
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