Well this is tough to do...but I’ll apologize since that is so unlike me to lose my temper. I don’t know you, but I know better than to treat fellow FReepers with such disdain. I don’t know the whole story behind this, but I do know from personal experience in surveying these mammals that they are threatened with extinction. We shouldn’t be shooting them anymore. They used to number in the hundreds of millions just a hundred years ago.
I really don't want you dead or necessarily the dogs but as they won't quit eating or move to government owned land that leaves little recourse. My family has to constantly be on the alert for another denizen of the colony; prairie rattlers that for whatever reason come into the yard, probably for water but "we must have the garden".
Lets have a better day.
I'm just musing here, but to what degree do prairie dogs play a role in topsoil development? They may be one of those necessary evils in rotating a soil from time to time else the mycorrhizal crusts can stop the grass from developing into an aerated organic layer. One might think they help the nitrogen penetrate deeper into subsoils as well.
One could thus chase them from spot to spot whether by hunting or careful use of predators. I think I'll give a ring to one of my buddies who consults for the Deseret Ranch. He'd probably know.