| Dogs Gone
Went over to the college pond the other morning to cast a line for a little bit before opening the store. Something seemed different, couldn’t figure out what it was. It was quite, too quite no yips whistles or barks. I looked around no prairie dogs, none zip nada. Holes to their dens were filled in, whole colony virtually wiped out. I knew the college was in the act of poisoning some the holes and one of the maintance guys told me they were talking about bringing in a pro to due wide spread poisoning of the town. Looks like they got ‘er done. Did a tour of the rest of the dog town clear to Comanche road population looked pretty thin. Had a fellow come into the store and tell me he had seen some dead ones laying in the field in front of hobby lobby. He figured they had been poisoned . I know the critters need to be controlled, the dam at the college was in jeopardy from their borrowing, but poisoning almost the whole dog town in front of the public is asinine. This kind of tactic will play right into the hands of peta and the other animal rights groups. They will once again push for the prairie dogs to be listed as endangered under the ESA. Citing the argument that the states can’t be trusted to manage these animals because they allow this sort of incident to happen. Then we will lose all reasonable management of these critters.  |