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	Prairie Dogs \| Cute + Endangered

nephos9

3-6-2008 10:01 PM

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prairie_dogs, western_wildlife

nephos9 says:

Enough being nice. Fuck ranchers! VP "Blow Your Face Off" Cheney has enabled aerial hunting of wolves - such a chickenshit thing to do. But ranchers have long been poisoning prairie dogs warrens as well. I was welcomed to the Arctic circle by a friendly arctic ground squirrel, a cousin of these creatures, so I have a different perspective anyway.

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