getting rid of prarrie dogs.

[GPW]

Just post a recipe for Prairie Dog Pie !!! That’ll do it !!! Can’t be that different than a squirrel huh ?

[Woodbutcher]

Prairie dog pie????? Prairie dog elimination party????? Why all the hate???? I have an eye out for you Slow.

[S. Heisley]

If you know what their favorite food is, you might build a few traps and entice them into the cages with that. Then take the captured critters to you least favorite person's farm. HaHa!

Seriously, here is what I found on the Internet:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6547342_rid-prairie-dogs.html

http://www.natures-defense.com/how-to-g ... edogs.html

News in Wyoming:
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/01 ... airie-dogs

Scroll down to under the video to see what the Humane society suggests:
http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/pr ... _dogs.html

[48Rob]

If prairie dogs thrive on old worn out cow pasture, perhaps the logical thing to consider is selling the cows and farming/harvesting prairie dogs?

How many pounds of meat per acre can you get from them, as opposed to cattle?
Seems like the prairie dogs would be a much smaller investment, since you wouldn't need to feed, house, care for them like cows.
If that doesn't work, look for other solutions, got to be some out there...like the ones Sharon found.

http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/pr ... _dogs.html
The key to defeating your opponent is understanding them

Rob

[Shadow Catcher]

If you have access to a vac truck, pad the inside of the truck... my understanding the Japanese consider them cute pets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjONDQEenbk

[crpngdth2001]

Here in Parker, Colorado, recently a company gassed a field of them - with good results, only 1 survived. Of course, a picture of that one lonely prairie dog in the field made the paper, with a big story about how local residents were outraged they were killed. This was on a multi acre empty lot in town.

Whatever gas they shot down those holes worked, that field is still a ghost town many months later.

[nevadatear]

Owl boxes and habitat. Our farmers and ranchers are putting up owl boxes for great horned and barn owls to lure them to the field, and as natural predators they keep prairie dogs under control. Here is the do it yourself. You are a do it yourself kind of guy, so making a few of these should be a piece of cake. Randy has a fiberglass version at our house right now that we are checking out. Owl boxes are booming in Pershing County Nevada!
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http://www.crittercreek.org/Docs/Simmon ... Design.pdf[/url]

[GerryS]

Prarie dogs are a pest at best. I like what Walmart did in Colorado a few year ago....they just paved over the prairie dog city. Ok, that was a little callous...starvation is a sad way to go, even for these disease carrying critters.

[Fenlason]

If prairie dogs thrive on old worn out cow pasture, perhaps the logical thing to consider is selling the cows and farming/harvesting prairie dogs?

How many pounds of meat per acre can you get from them, as opposed to cattle?
Seems like the prairie dogs would be a much smaller investment, since you wouldn't need to feed, house, care for them like cows.
If that doesn't work, look for other solutions, got to be some out there...like the ones Sharon found.

http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/pr ... _dogs.html
The key to defeating your opponent is understanding them

Rob

[bdosborn]

You guys up there in Wyoming are pretty soft. Here's how we deal with them in Colorado:

Nucla's Solution

Bruce

[Glenn Butcher]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-09-19/news/0309190364_1_prairie-dogs-gay-balfour-lonesome-alfalfa-field

I watched these guys at Buckley AFB in the '90s; it is simultaneously amusing and disconcerting to see the hose bang around as another 'dog makes the trip...

[bdosborn]

I was out at Buckley yesterday. Now they've got a rabbit infestation...

Bruce

[PKCSPT]

Poor prairie dogs, they just want a nice place to live.

[bdosborn]

Maybe you can talk to them? This is what I'd day:

"Good morning Mr. prairie dog, my aren't you looking fat today. My pasture grass is really filling you out. Say, I'm trying to earn a living off my land and you're kind of a problem. You eat all my grass and my cows break their legs when they step in your home. Do you think you could move along? Thanks so much, we'll see you later"

Bruce

[Glenn Butcher]

I was out at Buckley yesterday. Now they've got a rabbit infestation...

Bruce

Rabbits!!! Got one that'll park in a place in the yard, nibble at the grass, and leave a dead grass spot where he peed during his visit. If it were just the little pellets it'd be great, but...

I've gotten pretty good at trapping the squirrels with a Havahart trap, but it's too small for the rabbit. Need to buy the next bigger one...

...But that doesn't help slow, he needs either the vacuum guys, or some good poison...