Bigwill: I'll be damned. They aren't rugs in West Texas. I am pretty sure Paschall Belew (my grandfather) would have beaten me silly if I had called it a rug. My dad would have just called me a fagala.
After some research, I found it was a british term for horse blanket. WTF do they call a saddle blanket? Fuckin' limeys.
Reminds me of a story an old man told me about a west Texas boy goes to England to stay with some relatives and he goes on a fox hunt. When they get back, none of the other 'hunters' will talk to him. He finally asks why everyone is so pissed off at him. The guy tells the cowboy, "When you see the fox you are supposed to say 'Tally Ho The Fox', not 'There goes that little sumbitch'.
Rug my ***.