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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-26-06 08:56 AM
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10. It is not very good for the humans, either
Wild animals are carriers for a lot of diseases and parasites. Rodents like prairie dogs can carry salmonella, hantavirus and pinworms; ticks and fleas on the rodents can carry bubonic plague (yes, that is still around and still occurs) and Lyme Disease, and that is just for starters.

Generally speaking, any wild animal should be left in the wild.
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  -Language of Prairie Dogs Includes Words for Humans TechBear_Seattle  Apr-26-06 08:17 AM   #0 
  - I saw prairie dogs for the first time in Montana last year.  raccoon   Apr-26-06 08:18 AM   #1 
  - Some people try to turn them into pets  Warpy   Apr-26-06 08:26 AM   #5 
     - I saw a news program about that once.  raccoon   Apr-26-06 08:45 AM   #8 
     - It is not very good for the humans, either  TechBear_Seattle   Apr-26-06 08:56 AM   #10 
        - Excellent advice. n/t  valerief   Apr-29-06 09:06 PM   #14 
  - fascinating, thank for posting n/t  AZDemDist6   Apr-26-06 08:19 AM   #2 
  - Wow, doesn't this screw up those old notions even further?  MADem   Apr-26-06 08:24 AM   #3 
  - I have simply never doubted that mammals  kgfnally   May-18-06 12:00 AM   #16 
     - Your cat story reminded me of an incident with our kitty a while back  karlrschneider   May-18-06 10:03 PM   #17 
  - There was an article about this in Smithsonian about 10 years ago  Warpy   Apr-26-06 08:24 AM   #4 
  - A prarie dog once told me...  skooooo   Apr-26-06 08:28 AM   #6 
  - That's f'ing amazing!! (nt)  Vash the Stampede   Apr-26-06 08:42 AM   #7 
  - they have a phrase for republicans.  xchrom   Apr-26-06 08:50 AM   #9 
  - I remember a huge prairie dog town  Disorganized   Apr-26-06 09:30 AM   #11 
  - They've even come up with a Bush code word!  gatorboy   Apr-26-06 02:15 PM   #12 
  - Too bad the ranchers don't care how smart or how cute or how  enlightenment   Apr-26-06 08:43 PM   #13 
     - They're getting there, really.  politicat   May-17-06 06:01 PM   #15 
 

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