Killing Puppies

prairie dog: way smaller than bison

Yesterday I was doing some research on prairie dogs.
As I was lazily scrolling down on Google, something caught my eye: some place was selling prairie dogs as pets!
Being the curious eleven year old girl I am, I checked out the website. It had a lot of information on how to take care of prairie dogs and keep them. It said that, because of their social lives in the wild, they make amazing pets that are like overly bonding puppies that never grow up.  The good thing is that they can fit in your pocket! They are so social that they will bond with other animals, even ones five times the size of them! They can even bond with other prairie dogs and their owner. They will jump on a bison the size of a giant compared to them to save their owner. They are just like little kittens or puppies.

So I ask the people who want to exterminate prairie dogs: would you be as enthusiastic about sending a bunch of people with tanks of poison on their backs to kill a whole town inhabited by puppies? Not stray puppies covered in dirt that attack every person who walks by. Puppies that have only harmed six people in the last 57 years? Puppies that eat grass and not other animals? And even if you did, many many dog lovers would stop you before you could pick up the phone.  Many prairie dog lovers are trying to stop you from killing the "puppies" (prairie dogs), but they are not being listened to.

So please please just try and spend a few hours and call up the prairie dog coalition or someone like that and let them tell you how to solve your problems with the prairie dogs or show you that the problems are just in your head.
---Cymbre Arwen Smith