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Date Posted: 17:27:35 07/10/01 Tue
Author: Marlene
Author Host/IP: 64.24.185.54
Subject: Something to chat about.....

I just think this is so neat and strange and unusual.
Where I live in California, we have grey tree squirrels, gophers and moles and trillions of ground squirrels.....but we *don't* have Prarie Dogs. Now some of you may see Prarie Dogs as often as we see ground squirrels (they are a pest - all over the place) but when you're driving down a nearby residential street........and you see a pet Prarie Dog living in the middle of a lawn - you stop and STARE!

This fat little guy has fascinated us for weeks now. There is a hole in the middle of the lawn with a slice of tree over part of it and this little guy just stands around the hole peering all around him. I have seen teenagers coming out of the house and stop to pet him. He comes close, flattens his body down and sticks his head up to get scratched. He is *so* cute! I am quite sure he is a pet and they keep him fed. But they are illegal to keep in California and this little guy is out there all the time on a corner un-fenced lot for everyone to see. I can't believe a dog or cat hasn't gotten him (probably too big for a cat to take on, though.)
This would be like one of you in Indiana or Ohio or Colorado seeing a Sea Otter floating around on one of your lakes, cracking an Abalone shell on a rock on his stomach! (Something that we see everyday on our nearby coast.)
Anyway, I am just enthralled with this cute little guy and I hope Fish and Game doesn't come along and snatch him (and probably put him to sleep.) It looks like he would make as good a pet as any guinea pig or chinchilla or bunny (probably better) and I want them to take him in the house!

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