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| 769.1 | | ROULET::BING | Yes, I too am the NRA/GOAL | Mon Sep 24 1990 15:36 | 4 |
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Check out note 657.5 there is a discussion of this there.
Walt
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| 769.2 | Hoover to the rescue | MPGS::GIFFORD | When nature calls you have to answer | Tue Jan 28 1992 09:30 | 31 |
| This is the only note I could find with a title that had anything to do
with prairie dogs, and this isn't really relative to hunting but I
thought you guys would get a kick out of this.
In Sunday's Telegram and Gasette (Worcester Ma.) there was an article
about a guy somewhere in the southwest that was "vacuuming" prairie dogs
for a living. That's right vacuuming them. For a fee, if you had a lot
that you wanted to build on and it was infested with the little critters
he would come out and vacuum them out for you. He converted an old septic
truck into a giant vacuum cleaner. The dogs are sucked up through a 4.5 in.
hose and are fed through a padded deflector into the tank. This supposedly
doesn't hurt them but dazes them for a while. On one particular job he
sucked up about 50 dogs in about an hour and a half. He said that when
he checked in the tank the little guys were already socializing and
setting up house in the dirt that got sucked up with them.
He said it came to him in a dream one night so he decided to give it a go.
The F&G dept. guy, I think it was in Arizona, said he almost fell down
laughing when he first heard about it but that they business was getting
pretty popular (especially amonst the tree huggers--my comment). The guy
said there were no poisons or gasses used on the dogs. He relocates them,
usually on Federal land. They said that only in the case that there was
nowhere to relocate them would they consider extermination of the tank
full of dogs. The guy said that he thought this method would satisfy the
animal-rights activists since he wasn't killing the dogs. I'd be willing
to bet that they will probably come up with some sort of protest 'cause it
causes "undue stress on the poor little furry animals".
Well I just thought you guys would get a kick out of this.
Cowboy
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| 769.3 | | DECALP::HOHWY | Just another Programmer | Tue Jan 28 1992 11:04 | 10 |
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Cowboy, I really enjoyed that story about the prairie-dog
vacuumer as well, especially the title in VNS: "Dog-Gone"!
Or what about the place where the guy is quoted as: "it
is quite a ride" for the little furry creatures through the
tube and down the tank.... If nobody beats me to it, I'll
enter the entire thing from VNS - although you have already
got most of it! Big laugh in any event! :-)
- Mike
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| 769.4 | | GIAMEM::J_AMBERSON | | Tue Jan 28 1992 11:31 | 4 |
| Boy, that buisness must suck.
Jeff
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| 769.5 | | ZEKE::HOLLEN | | Tue Jan 28 1992 12:50 | 16 |
| In addition...
If anyone in the NH area would like to see/pet a real live prairie
dog, and do some Archery shopping too :-), stop in at D&B Archery in
Manchester. I went in about 3 weeks ago, and behind the counter right
next to his woodstove is his pet prairie dog, stretched right out on
his belly (like some dogs do when they "stretch") on the floor,
sleeping and soaking in the heat from the stove! What a riot! Later
on I heard a commotion behind his arrow boxes. Seems the little guy
has "favorite spots" all through the shop and takes any paper and whatnot
that he finds and hauls it into his cubby holes, chews it up, and
makes nests...
These animals are "neat" :-) I wouldn't mind owning one myself! ;-)
Joe
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| 769.6 | Pet of the '90's?? | EMDS::PETERSON | | Tue Jan 28 1992 15:44 | 11 |
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re the alst few..
Well, at the end of the VNS article, the guy stated that he is
looking into the possibility of exporting the 'dogs to Japan to be
used as pets! You might want to try and contat him to see about
having some shipped this way....
Chuck
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| 769.7 | | SA1794::CHARBONND | got friends in low places | Tue Jan 28 1992 16:12 | 1 |
| I got a dollar sez them 'pets' end up in the soup >;?)
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