Though parrie may seem like a cute and cuddly harmless animal but, don’t judge a book its cover because these animals could snag up your lawn with in a day.
They build large cities underground in burrows. This is not good if you have this under
Your home if you a whole city of burrows you have a chance of your house plowing into the ground. There are five different species of the prairie there is black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and even Mexican prairie dogs. These rodents carry many many diseases within their hair and feat. We have millions of these rodents across the nation. They have brown fur and white tails. Prairie dogs are a type of ground squirrel found in the united states,mexico, and florida.
The smallest one can be
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Prairie dogs are not one to hibernate during the winter.
These animals live more in the western united states. They live in very dry desert type places on earth where it does not get so hot during the winter so it is easier for them to live than other species around the world. When a female prairie dog is pregnant it takes up to a month for the off-spring to arrive. Mating season for prairie dogs is in mid spring. Prairie dogs main predators are famers. Some other predators are snakes, hawks, and ferrets. In order for Prairie dogs to warn their group called-Coteries or colonies they let out a loud high pitched dog like bark. Prairie dogs are expected to live 3-5 years. If these rodents are found under your home you must get a professional to vacuum them out. Though this vacuum may not be the best way to get prarie dogs out it is the only way. There are all these bad characters about prairie dogs but in reality we still need the prairie dog as a part of the our food chain because without them our animals below the food chain will overpopulate and animals over the food chain will die and there will be a shortage on the Species. Prairie dogs are extremely unpopular and so much that the government has tried many to abolish them.