The Prairie Dog
US $47.00
How much does it cost to take care of a prairie dog?
The shop that I found that sells them is about $180. I want to know about housing and food and all the other stuff he/she needs. How much would all that cost?
Edit: I know Prairie Dogs aren't real dogs. They are underground squirrels. They CAN be domesticated though. People have them as pets. As long as you know the signs and take care of them. I've read up a lot about them. It doesn't matter if they are rodents, people have rats as pets.
REALLY EXPENSIVE
i have rats as pets, and my mom had a squirrel, i dont see why not, they are already taken out of the wild and stuff, so you cant really send them back
thats cool
ive never heard of one being a pet before, so i wouldnt know
PRAIRIE DOG AND BLACK FOOTED FERRET QUESTION?
did the Black Footed Ferrets popluation decrease by 98%
or the Praire Dogs
o both?
BLACK FOOTED FERRET
JB: Though they look alike, the black-footed ferret has the unfortunate distinction of being the most endangered mammal in North America. Ferrets eat another ground-dwelling mammal, the prairie dog, and they also use prairie dog burrows for shelter. Both species once ranged across North American prairies.
DB: But around the 1870s, much of the prairie began to be converted to farmland and pastures. Farmers began systematically poisoning prairie dogs . . . and a newly introduced disease began to decimate large populations of prairie dogs and ferrets. In 1979, what was believed to be the last black-footed ferret died in captivity, and the species was considered extinct.
JB: Three years later a population of ferrets was discovered in Wyoming. When disease almost wiped out those ferrets, the ones still alive were caught for captive breeding. All black-footed ferrets in North America today are descendants of seven individuals from that captive population. Introducing them back to the wild has been a challenge, though. The lack of prairie dog – plus disease outbreaks – continue to be a problem.
DB: Still, two re-introduction efforts have taken hold – over 300 black-footed ferrets now live in Montana and South Dakota. Special thanks today to the U.S. Forest Service. We’re Block and Byrd for Earth and Sky.
http://www.earthsky.org/teachers/article/black-footed-ferret
