Interesting government expenditure.
In keeping with government efficiency, expenditures work out to approximately $4000.00 per M&M.
Ferrets and prairie dogs only please. All other wildlife please eat something else. Thanks. U.S. Wildlife and Fisheries.
Save Ferrett Bueller!
Couldn’t we drop something in this same vein over rat-infested cities like Detroit, Philly, Berkley, Madistan, etc.? ;)
Well, from the words in the piece, it appears that the candy will be attractive to children. And BTW, that’s the Bubonic Plague being discussed in the gooshy, slippery language of the article. The Plague is also in CO prairie dogs.
CO prairie dogs don’t need more of a population explosion, by the way.
god our government suks.
a few years ago the state was broadening a highway off my driveway from a two lane to a four lane and had to do these anthropology studies ahead of construction (so as to not destroy any native artifacts dontchyaknow) - low and behold they found some fire ring 4 feet down on my ranch and stopped all construction. anyhoo these long haired old hippies would be down there every day digging in their holes and i would go on my daily dog hunting at the same time.
get the am chores done and my cow dog Hank and i would jump on the 4 wheeler and go kill dogs. the hippie proffs asked me one time why i was always killing the prairie dogs and i told him - because i’m the apex predator on this land and it’s my duty to keep the population under control. he wanted to know why i didn’t get some black footed ferrets let loose on my land - i told him i don’t need any weasels to help - i have a 22-250 that has a way better percentage kill ratio than any weasel. I had to explain how i was a creature of the earth too - part of the “circle of life” - not from mars. and how my apposing thumps and superior brain had outsourced the damn weasel.
god i hate liberals
i left him slack-jawed and whipped.
dam dogs carry the plague ... they’re filthy and destructive - and out of control because of fake endangered acts aimed at curbing the landowner’s rights.
I like the peanut M&Ms.
HOW ABOUT A FLIGHT OVER THE HOUSE AND SENATE...???
Ferrets are great pets.
Cute as hell and playful.
Just make sure they don’t get lost. They don’t have a homing instinct like dogs and cats do.
Whole idea is stupid beyond belief. Ants will get vaccinated and the prairie rats will remain flea-infested vectors for plague. They’re getting paid regardless, so no wonder it’s a bunch of crap.
IIRC the Gov wildlife agency accidentally introduced the plague on the ferrets.They turned some diseased ferrets loose.
Was 10 or so years ago.
The proper solution to the problem would have been to have the NRA get a caravan of buses, load them up with a whole bunch of Eddie Eagle trainees and cart them over there to shoot the little prairie dogs to get a lot of “range time” to enhance their skills.
The hunting skills would be advanced to let them have the skill to identify the pests from the Ferrets.
It’s a “win-win” situation.
Yeah..... what!? I looked up chocolate for ferret owners and it is rated as a poison they should keep away from their pets....