Sunday Roast: Prairie Dogs

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Prairie Dogs are sooooo cute!!  I could watch them for hours.

Highly social, prairie dogs live in large colonies or “towns” – collections of prairie dog families that can span hundreds of acres. The prairie dog family groups are the most basic units of its society. Members of a family group inhabit the same territory.

As cute as they are, prairie dogs are tough little critters!  Watch them take on a rattlesnake, with their cute squeaky bark, cooperation in the community, and earth-moving skills.

This is our daily open thread — Squeak among yourselves.

38 thoughts on “Sunday Roast: Prairie Dogs”

  10. Too many of y’all seem to ‘poop out’ too early on Sundays.
    Y’all all need some of this Vita Meata Vegamin!

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      • We were painting yesterday on my house until about noon. Got that done.

        Then we went to her house to replace a ceiling fan that had ‘made sparks’ before the fan part quit working. Taking down the old fan, we discovered the entire unit was suspended from the light fixture electrical box, which was attached to the joist by a single nail. There were also too many wires in the box, and some idiot had soldered them and used tape, but no wire nuts. It’s a wonder her house didn’t burn down. We had to get an expanding joist-spanning hanger to adequately support the new fan, and couldn’t use the supplied box because it had no wire clamps in it. Back to the store for a standard box that the ol’ machinist had to modify so it would work with the hanger bar and clamp. Got that installed and the box hangs a quarter inch too low for the mounting flange of the fan to fit flush with the sheet rock ceiling. Back to the store to see if there’s a spacer that might take up the gap, but there was nothing like that. She’s working on that now I guess, and once she solves that, I’ll be needed to hold the fan up while she wires it, than once it’s hanging solid, she can install the small stuff and blades, etc.

        Our jobs always expand to fill the time available, and then some.

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        • I actually built a house with my husband before we decided to marry. I find it interesting that y’all do so much mutual building after deciding not to be married.

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          • Our first projects together were working on cars for people, because I was out of work due to the Challenger explosion in 1986. We didn’t have to do house repairs until we’d been married a year and a half. We work a lot better now we have separate houses. I get my way working on mine and I let her make the decisions about how she wants her house. We used to argue about what we wanted when it was the same house. A really big argument was over wall light switches. She wanted these flat rocker switches and I don’t like those kind. I like the typical ones that are easier to feel for in a dark room.

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            • I hate the rocker switches too. My husband and I still joke that if you build a house together and don’t kill each other, you’ll be married forever. It just seems to me that your divorce works better than a lot of folks’ marriages.

    • My ex has a Degu that is a cute rat, a little bigger than a grown chipmunk. It’s a very intelligent and tame pet, that quickly learns how to con the owner into giving it treats, and enjoys having it’s head and jaws scratched about as much as you can stand to do it. It tends to want to chew on things, so it has to be kept from things you don’t want tiny teeth marks all over.

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