Feds plan to study prairie dogs for possible endangered status

[Gunco]

A week after a Colorado state agency refused to ban shooting white-tailed prairie dogs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it will study the rodent to determine if it should be protected as an endangered species.

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[Fritz]

This would piss a lot of farmers off.

[upgrayedd]

Yup. I've heard nothign about this supposed "possible endangered listing" for the prairie dogs.
This has got to be a fabrication?

[Toten Kopf]

All this from people that say, "Gee, aren't they cute." And drive home, never having to deal with them on a regular basis.

Like someone else said, "Call them prairie rats and noboby would care what you did to them."

[tanvil]

They ARE in-dangered, when I'm around.

[upgrayedd]

lol.
destructive nuisance and fun to shoot. theseareall acceptable substitutes for theword "endangered" in the sentence "prairie dogs, an endangered species'

[22zsteve]

Here in southern utah we have a prairie dog breed that is already protected. It is the most ridiculous thing you have ever seen. the golf course looks like a spong, with hundred of these rats running all over the place. people cant build on their own land without waiting years on a list to have them safely removed. they can only relocate so many a year. it is unbelievable!!!!!