Tech is owned by the Student Government Association and resides with either a faculty member or local alumnus selected by the SGA.

Tech XX was born in Licking, Missouri, on October 9, 2007, and is the son of Kahuna Mighty Sampson and Abbie Jane Kofax.

However on Wednesday afternoon, August 1, 2012, Sexton Animal Health Center announced that an employee lied about Tech XX being missing.

Prior to the donation of the first live bulldog, the university owned a large stuffed dog that served as the mascot.

An article in the Ruston Daily Leader states, The old Dog has cauliflower ears, a few adhesive bandages and his paint is faded, showing evidence of having engaged in quite a few battles, and if his looks do not belie him he has faith in the relinquishing of his place as mascot, so emblematic of his Bulldog "tenacity.