The Rodenator Praire Dog Removal

[41magsnub]

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17634549?source=rss

Want!

Funny quote from the article,

She said it's a humane way to destroy burrows and isn't meant to kill the animals

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Because setting off a FAE inside the burrow is not going to hurt them in the slightest!

[BobR]

They tried using that thing in one of the city parks here for burrowing ground squirrels, the tree huggers got upset so it was given up. Now the ground squirrels can finish destroying the area.

Back when... I knew of people who would just pump the burrow full of propane and use cannon fuse to light it off. Same principal, not quite as safe though.

bob

[PTK]

"Boulder neighbors complain about explosive prairie dog removal"

If I had explosive prarie dogs near me, I'd want them removed.

 

[roo_ster]

Watch the video and suppress the urge to strangle the ever-loving *expletive deleted*it out of the nitwit who moved into a rural setting and objects to rural activities.

[seeker_two]

http://www.rodenator.com/

Guess what's on my Christmas list this year..... 

[sanglant]

, the propane will put them to sleep, and then kill them painlessly. before the blast. or at least it should, shouldn't.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

i know in my spud gun a 3-5 % ratio of air to propane is optimal. 

[41magsnub]

, the propane will put them to sleep, and then kill them painlessly. before the blast. or at least it should, shouldn't.

Didn't work that way in Caddyshack!   

[Angel Eyes]

Why is a Kenny Loggins song playing in my head?

[MechAg94]

, the propane will put them to sleep, and then kill them painlessly. before the blast. or at least it should, shouldn't.

Although less explosive, wouldn't dry ice accomplish the same thing?

[Jamisjockey]

Watch the video and suppress the urge to strangle the ever-loving *expletive deleted* out of the nitwit who moved into a rural setting and objects to rural activities.

They should be lined up and spanked with a belt right next to the people who move next to an airport and then complain about airport noise.....

[vaskidmark]

"I like a prairie dog as much as the next guy, other than when they're on your property and creating all the havoc they create," he said.

I keep seeing a bunch of folks, sitting around the campfire, with roasted prarie dogs on sticks.  Is that wrong?

stay safe.

[230RN]

Beats making them die a slow agonizing death from poisoned grain.

Those devices have been around for a long time, even ones without oxygen injection.  They're advertised in Ag pubs all the time.  They aren't regulated by the EPA, since they're devices. 

[BobR]

wouldn't dry ice accomplish the same thing?

Possibly, but dry ice won't make the earth move! 

bob

[230RN]

Barely apropos, not very informative, but perhaps slightly amusing.  A prior post of mine on another board:

PRAIRE RAT CONTROL

Don't shoot all that much nowadays, but 240 moons ago I shot a lot, and the farmers around the Lafayette Louisville and Superior areas used to pay me to thin out their Prairie Rats.  Just the cost of reloading components. 

What the heck, I'm not greedy.

Funny story about that... 

There was a ten or so acre Prairie Rat colony just off Iris Street in Boulder in those days, and all the Boulderites used to show off the Prairie Rats to their visiting eastern relatives.  Darned things were almost tame, and all the visiting city slickers used to ooo and aaa over the "cute" little pests.  (You ain't lived until some of your livestock got injured in one of the adorable little creatures' holes.)

So anyhow, the news got out that the parcel of land was going to be devloped into a little shopping mall, and of course all the do-gooders got together to "rescue' the Vermin, and there was a big deal in the Boulder Daily Camera that went on for about a week about how they had hired one of those humane foam-pumping outfits to foam the Rats out of their holes, and there was a front-page picture of one of the animal control Officers holding a wet scruffy little Rat, smiling all to heck and putting it into one of the cages for relocation.

Well, you guessed it.  The "relocation" area was a parcel of land owned by the Colorado Department of Transportation along Highway 36...

..which bordered one of my farmer's land.

Well, that Friday night I got a frantic call from my farmer buddy which more or less went, with expletives translated into the usual symbols, "Terry! How much ^%c(*^& ammo do you have?"

Jeez, I don't know, Mike.  What's up?"

"Those (*%&&amn idiots are out there putting those (&*&&^ing prairie dogs out by the highway and they're running all over my (**^%((*ing pasture!  Can you get out here this weekend?"

Well. Of course, after all that Doing of Good by Transplanting Cute Little Prairie Rats To The Highway Right Of Way, there I was all that weekend busting them with my .223 varmint rifle.

It was my Prairie Rat Paradise for two whole days!

Oh, if all those Doers Of Good had known that!

Mike paid me well a week later with one of the best barbecues I ever sat down to.

What the heck, I'm not greedy.

Terry, 230RN

Terry, 230RN

[roo_ster]

Barely apropos, not very informative, but perhaps slightly amusing.  A prior post of mine on another board:


Terry, 230RN

That was beautiful.