Prairie dogs do not need to drink water. They can get all of the water needed from the leafy foods they eat. Protection Guard dogs keep watch by standing on a mound of dirt, and let out a warning yelp or bark . Prairie dogs also signal with their tails. Enemies Many predators hunt these rodents including badgers,weasels, ferrets, hawks, owls, coyotes,foxes, bobcats and snakes.
Badgers try to catch prairie dogs in the daytime by rushing into a colony.
At night, they dig into the entrance hoping to surprise the sleeping prairie dogs. Prairie dogs in the wild live 3 to 5 years, because of all the predators. Man has hunted and poisoned them. They also eat grasshoppers, cutworms, bug and beetles. The Young Baby prairie dogs are born with no hair.