But there IS a cure for homelessness.

Start prairie dog bounties at $25 each, save money on shipping.

I'll donate $$$ to relocate homeless

Won't work. They'll take their cut of your money and come back.

Gun idea is appealing, however.

Frickin tree huggers would rather relocate prairie dogs than spend money on schools.

Isn't this where they have a transformed streetsweeper that sucks them up and spits them inside onto matresses so they don't get hurt. Thought I saw that somewhere...

Praire Dogs are a .223's best friend

When you put so much of a single species into a limited area then you start crowding out other species that might inhabit that area, Paschall said.

Like say, maybe Homo sapiens?? Man, that species just crowds everything else out. I say we need to start relocating some of those critters.

That said, how the hell do you spend $100 moving a prairie dog?? There's a guy somewhere who modified a combine to be a gopher-sucker, it just vacuums the little squirrels right out of their burrows. Even if you bought one of those things, it would still cost less than $100 a Sciurid.

a4dzac
Are you sure it was somewhere? Are you sure it wasn't nothing?

"Boulder relocates more than 1,200 prairie dogs"

Yeah, big rocks rolling down a hill will do that.

This article reminds me of why I left the People's Republic of Boulder to move to a more sane environment... New York City. We arrest the homeless and use prairie dogs and other assorted rodential to make our delightful chinese dishes.

Heeeere, doggiedoggiedoggie...

Cure for homelessness:

GET A FARKIN JOB!!!!

/hates bums

So, it's that black and white to you people, eh? An either/or proposition? Save some members of an endangered spieces from the front range's mega-development or build a school/shelter/whatever?

Not to mention, if any town can afford to put some resources into animal relocation, it's Boulder.

Oh....Boulder- like the city. I was thinking 'freakin big rock'

And then I was outraged at the idiot who would pay $100/head to a rock

I've got a cheaper soltion

1 car
1 roll of duct tape
1 hose
2 bags of quick hardening cement
1 tank of gas

$40 at most...nighty night varmits. Vroom! Vroom!!!

Still no cure for homelessness

Funny, getting off your lazy ass and working seems like a pretty good solution.

Boulder relocates more than 1,200 prairie dogs at $100 apiece. Still no cure for homelessness

Also, no solution to the Jonbenet Ramsey case.

Prarie Dogs are NOT endangered not anywhere near endangered.
the hippies are trying to get them on the endangered species list. being faught hard by ranchers and farmers as they ruin a lot of grazing land. their holes break the legs of cattle, they eat up the grazing land and grasses the cows eat. they carry disease like the plague. they are priarie rats and good target practice.

Chairman Kaga says tonights ingredient on Iron Chef: "Prarie Dog"

This is the sort of environmentalism I never understood. So what if there are only 1200 surviving prarie dogs in Boulder and the rest have to be killed. It's not like there aren't places all over the state of Colorado wher ethe little buggers are being bounty hunted because they are far too numerous. If they kill off every last prarie dog in Boulder, the species isn't really in any more real danger of extinction.

When I was in college, we visited a lake that had been created as a drinking water resevior. While going through the court processes to allow for the damming of the river and flooding of the valley, two ecological problems came to light.

Bear with me because I can't recall the exact species names. There was some sort of wild flower in the valley that couldn't be found anyplace els ein the state of New Jersey. It took months in court for the state to finally convince people that these same stupid flowers virtually carpetted parts of Tennessee and Kentucky.

The second was some sort of turtle. It is abundant in the south of the US but, again, this was the only place to find one in New Jersey (speculation at the time was that these things only ended up in that river because someone turned a pet loose.). The state ended up having to build a wetlands for these turtles (all 4 of them) at a cost of roughly $100,000 a turle.

"Mr. Mayor...a Carl Spangler on line 1."

Writes down yet another reason to nuke Boulder.

Razafrak'n peice of dang old burn the building down son of a mother, I HATE BOULDER!!! AHHHHHHH!

I still don't feel any better.

You people make me sick! How can you say such things about the homeless? Homeless people are people too, and you can't just go around shooting them or sticking them in prairie dog holes. Perhaps if we didn't have capitalist...

Woah, what am I saying? Screw the homeless.

/been on a university campus for too long, liberal insanity is staring to get to me.

Seriously, you stupid Boulderite idiots!
PRAIRIE DOGS CARY THE PLAGUE!!!
God, you people are dumb!

Still don't feel better.

Hey

Maybe if the homeless were paid $100 for each prairie dog they relocated......

An easy way to "relocate" more prairie dogs for cheaper:



(just kidding of course)

clevershark
Okay that made me feel better. Thanks for the laughs.

I'm happy they saved the little guys. I know we all feel superior and what not because we're "human", but they were displaced because of us in the first place. You all want to live in bright, open and airy spaces and cure homelessness - stop having children! Try adopting. There's just not enough to go around.

Nanoo, Nanoo

Anyone else ever flipped a prairie dog?
If you have you know exactly what I mean, if not it probably sounds sick. I think a friend of mine got one 6 feet up at about 250 this summer with his 22-250.

Ahh the memories. I love North Dakota

Ohh ya, they are not endangered up here, that's for sure.

Boulder prairie dogs have the high life, I tells ya. I remember seeing them chilling by the side of the road when I lived there and each and every one of them was obese. Like they were living on filet mignon and creamery butter.

Mmmf mmmmmmmmffff, more seeds please, this is the life

As for my above asshattery...I know nothing of prairie dogs. I am, however, well versed in self humiliation.

While I don't usually side with the animal-rights hippies, I have to say that development has affected the prairie dog habitat severely enough to threaten their main predator species: the American black-footed ferret.

The BFF is pretty close to extinction; in fact, it's the most endangered mammal in North America, due to the massive destruction of prairie dog habitat in the Great Plains. I say, feed the 'dogs to them.

> An easy way to "relocate" more prairie dogs for cheaper:

That's just down the road in Aurora, too. :D

Unfreakable
But Boulder makes me soooo mad... Haaandssss sssshakkking

Wait a frik'n minute, what did I spell wrong.

my family used to have a pet prarie dog. he was a cool little bugger.

RosevilleDan

I get it... :)

Brap

I think the technical term for the hanky-on-a-stick is 'bindle' (thank you Word A Day Calendar).