Lift of prairie dog ban

[Rocky]

Recently where I live a lot of people have been going out to catch baby prairie dogs to sell them and while i thought it was illegal i just found out that they lifted the ban on them recently. I remember having one when i was really young and he was a blast

so if anyone wants a praire dog i would be more than happy to trade one for a chameleon there are about 10 million of them in the field across from my house

 

[THECHAMMAN]

i had one. it was like a ferret. cool ass animalz

 

[kenya]

Are you seriously offering to go out and catch a wild animal that you will trade for a chameleon? This is not a good idea.

 

[THECHAMMAN]

i had a cb. i got him from a breeder, and he was about 3 monthes old.

 

[Rocky]

i was just joking. they used to get big vacuum trucks and vacuum them out of holes a year or so ago they were so abundant. it was pretty funny to watch

 

[Vegas Chad]

i was just joking. they used to get big vacuum trucks and vacuum them out of holes a year or so ago they were so abundant. it was pretty funny to watch

Really now??? Thats awesome! hahaha

 

[Rocky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ70JJpa0M

theres a video of them doing it somewhere else

 

[kenya]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ70JJpa0M

theres a video of them doing it somewhere else

That's cruel.

 

[THECHAMMAN]

im and animal activist by no means, and its funny (ill give it that) but it is kind of cruel.

 

[Rocky]

the truck that i saw sucked them up and the inside of the holding bin was lined with a big egg crate type foam so they just kinda bounced on it and were fine. It is a lot better alternative to what people were doing. ie shotguns and dynamite. They really are a nuisance and the farmers will get them out either way they can and i think sucking them up and relocating them to a prairie dog town is a lot better than using them for target practice or literally blowing them out of their holes.

 

[kenya]

the truck that i saw sucked them up and the inside of the holding bin was lined with a big egg crate type foam so they just kinda bounced on it and were fine. It is a lot better alternative to what people were doing. ie shotguns and dynamite. They really are a nuisance and the farmers will get them out either way they can and i think sucking them up and relocating them to a prairie dog town is a lot better than using them for target practice or literally blowing them out of their holes.

Oh, yes, nature is such a nuisance when you move in and it adapts to your presence. How unfortunate that those gosh darned prairie dogs have the nerve to exist. They should just know that we are the superior beings and get out of here, because we all know that they are able to relocate to where they aren't such a nuisance.

/sarcasm

Now, before I get hate mail over this, I am not attacking you, Rocky, I am just appalled at the basic human concept that nature must submit to our invasion. I don't like it and I DO believe that "sucking them up and relocating them" is really cruel. How would you like to get sucked up an enormous loud tube that was like a monster, flung around the insides of a machine (padded or not...and it didn't look THAT padded) and separated from your family and community? They are very social animals, you know.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[danielle609]

I have heard that ranchers hate them, because their cattle can break their legs if they step in a hole. I agree it is cruel, but I guess better than killing them...? They are very cute

 

[kinyonga]

This is sucking up and relocating prairie dogs is IMHO not really a solution. Generally when you remove an animal it leaves a niche for another to move in soon after or reproduction will increase. Relocating them "squeezes" them into another prairie dog's territory which usually starts a battle over said territory...and food supplies may not be enough to support them all even if they do sort out the territory issue. Relocating can also bring disease from one area to another that will be transmitted to other animals.

Not saying that I would rather see them shot or killed...just that this is not a real solution.

 

[Jbot]

weren't prairie dogs the reason for a disease outbreak a while back? fleas on the animals were spreading disease to human keepers or just the animals themselves?