DenverPost.com – Explosives a go for prairie dogs
Explosive devices can be used to kill prairie dogs, the Colorado Wildlife Commission decided Thursday – giving farmers one more tool to get rid of the burrowing animals.
“I’m tickled pink,” said Matt Fickes, a Sterling farmer who has sought to use the devices. “I’ve got prairie dogs so thick I can’t see straight.
“Ever see that Star Trek episode, ‘The Trouble With Tribbles’? It’s like that,” he said. “They are born pregnant.”
Landowners have been allowed to shoot, vacuum, poison and drown prairie dogs – but not blow them up.
Now they’ll be permitted to use hand-held devices, such as the Rodenator and Varmitgetter, that ignite explosive gases to collapse the burrows.
Oh, the humanity!
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Prairie dogs are God’s way of keeping cattle from overrunning the earth.
“I’m allright, Noboday worry ’bout me”
Didn’t you people all see “Caddyshack”? This ends badly for everyone except the prarie dogs.
Reminds me off the slightly more humane way of getting rid of these little guys… sucking them up of their holes:
http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9612/16/sucking.dogs/
Perverted URL, and yes, I know… the article is close to 10 years old… ;o) It turns out that they make nice pets in Japan:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/1996/07/01/editorial4.html
And knowing Koreans, a prairie dog would make a nice dish.
I hope they rise up and smite the damn farmers.
This is what happens when you start screwing with an eco system, as the article about the couple who suck them up into the truck said, we have eliminated all the prairie dogs natural enemies(except the 2 legged ones) and now they run rampant.
These are the same short sighted a-holes that don’t want buffalo out of the National Parks or the wolf reintroduced into the wild, or back shooting mountain lion because some stupid ass takes fluffy into the mountains and the big cats attack them when they feel threatened.
The guy who claims to be over run with them isn’t even a farmer, he’s a damn rancher…..my family has successfully cattle ranched for 118 years in Arizona and never purposely killed a prairie dog. Killing them is not required to ranch cattle or sheep. But then we weren’t so stupid as to kill off the Coyotes and the Hawks and the Mountain Lions.
Be the ball!
The only good varmit is a dead varmit!
Doh, wrong movie!
Is there a movie with prairie dogs as the villan?
Let me know when they allow the browning .50 caliber machine gun to be used to hunt prairie dogs, then I might start to feel a little sympathy for the little varmits.
Unless they can land a show on Discovery channel like the Meerkats, no one will have any feelings for the little terrors of the plains.
Yo, Discovery, the next steps are nerve gas and NUKES! Get off yer hinies already.
Don
Awesome!
The 11-member commission on Thursday also established a seasonal closure period for prairie dog hunting from March 1 to June 14, during the breeding months for white-tailed, Gunnison and black-tailed prairie dogs.
I thought the idea was to stop them from proliferating. Why give them a chance to reproduce? If this was Texas, they would be sticking a popsicle stick up their butts and deep frying them at the fairs.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=7007#comments
Further to #7, the small ones are really great sauted with onions
Before VARMIT getter there were literally tons of poisons and chemicals put in to the ground effecting the water table and producing secondary kills such as family pets and wildlife, and the handheld units were dangerous to the operator. The guys at VARMIT getter fixed this. Thanks to VARMIT getter, there are no secondary kills due to poisons and chemicals, and the VARMIT getter remote unit is operator friendly.
Anyone thinking about using the Propane & Oxygen method of exterminating prairie dogs should look into the Rodenator device.
They have government studies on the blacktailed prairie dogs being successfully eliminated by the Rodenator. http://www.rodenator.com
The Varmitgetter has squat!