As always, I feel sad that we are eliminating a living being in the name of progress. It is particularly discouraging in such a huge state with proportionately so few people. For our first week of summer school, third grade students in Rockport, Texas, read and learned about Prairie Dogs. Since we live on the Gulf coast, only one of the twelve students had ever seen a prairie dog. Their burrows give protection for rabbits and snakes.
Prairie dogs moisten the dirt.
They are a species and should not be harmed. We think prairie dogs are pests, because they make holes in the ground which can hurt cattle and horses. They damage the land, and they eat the grass that the cows need. All rights reserved.