Oh Phil,
What a story!  They really do love animals don't they?
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:57 PM
Subject: True Story


> Here is a true story I posted on blind-x today.  It isn't Christian but 
> then
> again, half the stuff I post is off topic so I guess it won't hurt 
> anything.
>
> Phil.
> Subject: Prairie Dog Town
>
>
>> Up in Boulder, about a half an hour north of Denver, is what we call the
>> People's Republic of Boulder.  You likely have heard a couple of my 
>> weird,
>> howbeit humorous, Bolder stories in the past.  This one is about prairie
>> dogs.  If you have never seen a prairie dog, they are smallish looking,
> very
>> cute, dog like animals that literally dig tunnels and live under ground.
>> Wherever they decide to build a town for themselves, the land is rendered
>> completely useless.  Well, for everything but the prairie dogs, of 
>> course.
>> Farmers and ranchers hate them but they love shooting them when they pop
> up
>> out of their holes to see what's around.  As I said, they are also very
> cute
>> and city folk hate to see them killed.  They don't care about the farmer
> or
>> rancher or the 10,000 dollar horse the steps in a prairie dog hole and
>> breaks a leg but that's beside the point.  Anyhow, there was a prairie 
>> dog
>> town near Boulder about three or four years ago.  They had taken up 600
>> acres of land.  Since Boulder was expanding and eating up more 
>> countryside
>> land, the prairie dog town became quite the problem.  Being the animal
>> loving people that they are, the People who live in the republic of
> Boulder
>> I mean, they voted to move, you heard me, move the entire prairie dog
> town.
>> The panama Canal was easier to build than moving this prairie dog town 
>> was
>> going to be but I digress.  Boulder does love animals, I'm not joking
> about
>> that, because they already passed a law they you cannot claim that you 
>> own
>> your pet.  That's what I said.  It is against the law to even say you own
> a
>> pet.  I don't care if you bought your own pet rat, its cage, litter, 
>> food,
>> water bottle, feeding bowl, and a second pet rat to keep the first pet 
>> rat
>> company.  If you live in the city and county of Boulder, you cannot own
> your
>> pet.  Then, pray tell, what is it then if you have a pet?  You are the
>> guardian of the animal and nothing more.  Makes sense to me, I think, I
> just
>> don't think about it much.  Anyhow, back to moving an entire prairie dog
>> town.  How is it done, you may ask?  Simple.  There are huge vacuum
> devices
>> they put over the holes and they literally suck the cute little things
> right
>> up out of the ground.  Well, it's better than shooting them or poisoning
> the
>> poor things.  So, Boulder paid, God only knows how much, to have 600 
>> acres
>> of prairie dogs moved further out of town.  So far, so good, but don't 
>> get
>> ahead of me on this story.  They, meaning Boulder, now has another 
>> problem
>> with prairie dogs.  The first 600 acre town I already talked about? 
>> Well,
>> it doubles about every two years.  I believe the town is up to 2400 acres
>> now and Boulder cannot figure out what to do since they once again are
>> encroaching on the housing community of the city.  You know, the city 
>> with
>> the real people in it not the prairie dog city/town.  No, they do not 
>> know
>> what they are going to do this time.  No, no, they don't want to kill
> them,
>> for crying out loud.  Hells bells, that would probably cost as much now 
>> as
>> the big vacuuming thing they did awhile back.  As I said, however, the
> town
>> doubles about every two years, they figure, and Boulder is growing, too.
>> Mucho big problem because the two communities are about to meat once
> again.
>> Want a pet?
>>
>> Phil.