But how many of those pups survive six months or a year?
Prairie dogs and cattle can have a mutualistic relationship but I do agree both they and ferrets first both need to be inoculated against the plague.
I was not insinuating that either the dogs or Ferrets need inoculation. I assumed that you would realize that a poisoned dog colony would not only reduce food supplies (the Prairie Dogs) but also provide secondary poison risks to all predators that consume the poisoned carcasses.
There is nothing “mutualistic” to dogs and cattle other than the fact that they provide an alternative food source to coyotes and other predators and provide a relief to predation upon baby calves.
I can assure you that most, if not all sane cattle producers don’t want prairie dogs on their places.