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Weird prairie dog story

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Just this morning, my mother asked me to come to her front yard and confirm her suspicions; she thought she just killed a prairie dog - with a metal rod - in her front yard - in town. I walked over there and sure enough, there laid a dead prairie dog. She said she saw something run past her window and went and investigated. She didn't know what it was for sure so she kept inching closer and closer until she was 10 ft. or so and decided it wasn't a puppy. She wasn't too far from the garden, so she went over and pulled up a metal rod they had been using for a row marker, walked over and whacked it. There had to be something wrong for the animal to be where it was in the first place, and then to not run from a human. Any ideas?
 
kolanuraven said:
Some folks keep them as pet....could it have been a pet that got loose?
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I'm in Western Nebraska. We have dogs and cats as pets - kids might have a hamster. Prairie dogs are target practice. Speaking of, I wish everybody could of seen the shot I put on one last Sunday - 240 yards with a crosswind that would blow your cap off. One shot - PLOP!
 
Oh...I know where you are and have spent lots of afternoons in W NE ridding the landscape of the pests.......but I said that cause I know of 2 people, one in Torrington WY and one in Lusk WY who have/had them for pets!

Not popular...but I was amazed to see them as pets. You'd be surprised at how smart they really are. Sharp little buggers!!
 
kolanuraven said:
Oh...I know where you are and have spent lots of afternoons in W NE ridding the landscape of the pests.......but I said that cause I know of 2 people, one in Torrington WY and one in Lusk WY who have/had them for pets!

Not popular...but I was amazed to see them as pets. You'd be surprised at how smart they really are. Sharp little buggers!!
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Sure they're sharp. They always know right where the best grass is. :wink:
 
Prairie dogs do make good pets, but I've never heard of one hanging around someone's yard if there wasn't something wrong with it.

Years ago when our two oldest boys, who were probably 12 and 13 at the time, were shooting prairie dogs on our dog town they grazed one in the head and knocked him out. When the boys walked the dog town to count the dead ones, this one came to and, except for a crease in his noggin, seemed none the worse for wear so the boys brought him home.

Digger lived behind my kitchen range and was one of the best pets the kids ever had. I used to let him outside during the day and bring him back in toward evening. One day I forgot that he was loose in my flower bed and when I finally remembered him that night, he was nowhere to be seen. Since a huge, wild tomcat had been hanging around we think Digger became dinner for the feral feline.

Only prairie dog death I ever mourned and we all missed the little bugger. Doesn't stop us from trying to eliminate his relatives though.
 

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