Posted on 10/25/2017 2:46:04 PM PDT by SandRat
Why would anyone want them back??
I used to run a water company, and one of our customers had a P-dog as a pet. It was pretty cute!
They’re a big part of the ecosystem in South Dakota, too.
Cattle step in their holes, break their legs and get put down by the farmer.
They built a fenced-in habitat for the Black Footed Ferrets in Montana.
Right in the middle of a prairie dog colony.
The ferrets eat prairie dogs.
The trouble was, they fenced in a coyote with them.
Turns out, coyotes prefer eating ferrets over prairies dogs.
Ate every last ferret.
Rodents
We call it farming.
Prairie dogs on the Rockies don’t have towns. It’s one gigantic prairie dog city covering the whole Range, and they carry the Plague. There aren’t many fleas at high elevations, but the disease can be contracted in other ways (by way of pets, livestock watering equipment,...). That along with deer mice carrying Hantavirus makes for an interesting environment.
Yep.
Which is why some rancher friends of mine will let me shoot them all day long.
And the little PDogs carry the plague.
This is a great idea! Yknow, I was just saying to a friend, “Yknow what we need? A good plague. Not quite biblical but a real challenge for society. Something like bubonic plague.”
Interesting take on prairie rats. The other view is that they eat the roots, destroy the range, and leave holes for all manner of creatures to step into and break their legs.
Fun targets though for a lazy afternoon.
Great shooting is why.
My late cat Abigail used to stand up just like a prairie dog and look around. It was really cute.
The reason I bought my 22-250 ... great shooting and the farmers would put me up for a couple of days.
Interesting critters - they bark at a dog that is a quarter of a mile away but build their homes two feet from a busy street. And then for no logical reason, decide that they need to get to the other side of the busy street.
Interesting critters - they bark at a dog that is a quarter of a mile away but build their homes two feet from a busy street. And then for no logical reason, decide that they need to get to the other side of the busy street.
Indeed. Prairie road pizza ;-)
Exactly. Squashed flat after 100 cars have driven over what is left of them. They might cause an accident, too.
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