Prairie Dog Poisoning Stopped By Angry Residents (OK)

[struggle4progress]

POSTED: 9:13 pm EST March 9, 2007

LAWTON, Okla. -- ...

When the city began dropping poisonous pellets in prairie dog holes last week at a local park, angry protesters converged on the park. One woman complained, "Those little prairie dogs suffered horribly."

The prairie dogs have been an attraction in Lawton for decades and are now believed to number around 8,000. It's when they started spreading to neighboring athletic fields that the city decided to act.

For now, the poisoning program has been dropped and the prairie dog holes on the athletic fields are simply being filled.

http://www.wtov9.com/news/11216742/detail.html

[Redstone]

1. About fucking time, too. Good news, that is.

Redstone

[Tunkamerica]

2. I don't think poisoning them is good

but my roommate in college had 2 and they were the worst animals I have ever had to live with. They bit and growled and escaped and chewed through every wire in the house. The big male held the female down and raped(?) her repeatedly while she made the worst rodent screams. If I tried to break it up she'd try to bite me. I hate prairie dogs.

[piedmont]

3. Uh, that just means they're not good pets. nt

[Tunkamerica]

5. yep. good reading skills. not good pets. nt.

[piedmont]

4. I wonder if they couldn't just dig a trench around the fields and fill it with rock or sheet metal

Or trap the critters instead of poisoning them.