Chinese Zodiac animals

Delving into my roots and looking at Chinese astrology, i did a few designs of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals.

The order of the animals are:
Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Sheep
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig

There are many different stories of how the animals came in the order they came to be in, but the most popular story of them is how they were in a race.

It is also said that there was a cat who was friends with the rat. In the race they had to cross a river, however both were poor swimmers so they asked to ride on the Ox's back.

Halfway across the Rat's greed to win took the better of him and he pushed the cat in the river leaving the rat to jump off the Ox's ahead of the Ox to win the race.

The cat vowed to be mortal enemies with the Rat from that day forth and swore revenge. It is said that this is why cats and rats have been enemies ever since.