Explosives a go for prairie dogs

Denver Post ^ | 09/08/2006 | Jeremy P. Meyer

[Melas]

So, you think Jeffery Dahmer's childhood torture and killing of dogs and cats is ok, based upon that verse?

[Eye of Unk]

I wonder if tying some detonation cord around several of the live critters and releasing them from different quadrents letting a substantial amount of det cord to be played out, and then hit the switch?

[humblegunner]

So, you think Jeffery Dahmer's childhood torture and killing of dogs and cats is ok, based upon that verse?

Bit lacking in reading comprehension, hey?

Torture isn't mentioned or implied. Perhaps you are channeling some inner urges of your own.

[rottndog]

Talk about hot dogs...

[Dan Evans]

Wouldn't chopping up a prairie dog for chili be a little risky considering that so many of them carry bubonic plague?

[NorthWoody]

How do these grab ya then:

Genesis 1:26 NKJV - Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[a] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

[a}-Syriac translation reads "all the wild animals of"

Genesis 1:28 NKJV - Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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It's no sin to kill an animal, as long as it's not a psychotic bloodlust as in Dahmer's case.

Having a good time making quick, clean kills on destructive varmints is a harmless pastime. For all except the varmints, that is.

And in response to LibWhacker, who said that prairie dogs often drag their dead or injured into the burrow, that's not emotional attachment. It's instinctive behavior; the point is to remove that which will attract predators to the burrow.

[NorthWoody]

Heating meat to a core temp of 160 degress kills all known harmful agents.

I've never had prairie dog, but I've eaten deer, elk, moose, bear, raccoon, duck, grouse, pheasant, quail, wild turkey, squirrel and rabbit (all from the wild), and never had any problems.

[Dan Evans]

Then my cousin told me that uninjured prairie dogs will often drag their dead or wounded mates back into the burrows with them.

I'm guessing they do that because prairie dogs, like many rodents, are cannibals.

[humblegunner]

so many of them carry bubonic plague

Do they really? We'll make sure to boil 'em good.

Chili has to boil a while regardless, we'll increase the time for the ground-dogs.

Our zoos in Texas have recipes on the cages, you know.

[mollynme]

Then my cousin told me that uninjured prairie dogs will often drag their dead or wounded mates back into the burrows with them. That did it for me; I never shot another one!

I wouldn't get too sentimental about it. A prof at the University of Colorado (30 yrs ago) told my class that they cannibalize their own. He said that they usually eat each other's babies, though.

[Dan Evans]

So, you think Jeffery Dahmer's childhood torture and killing of dogs and cats is ok, based upon that verse?

The verse doesn't say that. It says men are above animals. We gives us the authority to decide when killing is justified. So killing for entertainment is wrong, killing for necessity is okay. Being entertained while killing for necessity is a little bit edgy.

[Melas]

Torture isn't mentioned or implied. Perhaps you are channeling some inner urges of your own.

To make it clear for you, no, no I'm not. However, as cheap shots go, that one wasn't bad, and please, don't insult anyone's intelligence by claiming it wasn't a cheap shot. You know it was, and you meant it to be.

[humblegunner]

You know it was, and you meant it to be.

Sure enough. Got a point to make relevant to the thread?

[Dan Evans]

Heating meat to a core temp of 160 degress kills all known harmful agents.

I think the risk would be contamination from the butchering process before it's cooked.

[NorthWoody]

Here's a couple more for good measure:

Genesis 9:2&3 NKJV - 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.

Judges 14:5&6 NKJV - 5 So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah.
Now to his surprise, a young lion came roaring against him. 6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion apart as one would have torn apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand...
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Samson used his God-given strength to slay a beast that was giving him trouble, and the Lord rewarded him with honey for his trouble.

[NorthWoody]

Good point. I guess if I were going to eat prairie dog, in which case I would probably be in some sort of financial or societal emergency anyway, I'd wear rubber gloves, or take my chances if no gloves were available.

Plague usually occurs in the sothwest US, if at all, and if you're in an area where no plague has been reported, it's probably pretty safe to eat them if one is of a mind to do so.

[Dan Evans]

I was doing some research on this a while back and I saw a figure of something like 50% of wild rodents carry bubonic plague or the fleas that carry it. They tend to develop a resistance to it.

That's another good to get rid of them, not only around farms and ranches but also in residential areas where pets might come in contact with them and carry the disease into the house.

But if I had to cut up a prairie dog for stew, I would be decked out in a get-up like a brain surgeon

[Melas]

Nah, we've established your character, and that's point enough for me. Good night.

[SuziQ]

That oughta do it!

[COEXERJ145]

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