Top Ten Reasons the Prairie Dog is the New Batman

The Prairie Dog Coalition asked it's members to come up with a "Top Ten Reasons Prairie Dogs Are..." list to help out with press for the upcoming fundraiser. I came up with this and it looks like they are going to use it! Yay :)


1. Prairie Dogs get blamed when things start going south.

2. Prairie Dogs carry the weight of the entire prairie ecosystem and
thus, are incredibly strong!

3. Prairie Dogs don't mind wearing silly outfits!(lots of pics online
of prairie dogs wearing outfits )

4. Prairie Dogs are cute, but if you are an evil doer and face to face
with one in a dark alley, just give up. Their teeth are quite sharp :)

5. Prairie Dogs have one of the most sophisticated communication
systems of any mammal known to man. They may know what you are doing
or thinking before you even think about doing it!

6. Prairie Dogs provide the resources that their neighbors on the
prairie need to survive. Without the Prairie Dog, you can say goodbye
to almost nine other species that call the prairie their home.

7. The Prairie Dog is not only an inhabitant of the prairie, but a
symbol of it's health an well being.

8. The Prairie Dog is unable to fight it's opressers on it's own. It
needs the help of people in it's community to educatet the ill
advised. The Prairie Dog needs this help in order to persuade those
that may make quick and unfortunate decisions regarding the fate of
the prairie dog.

9. The prairie dog is not only a hero, it is a role model in it's own
right. The prairie dog creates an expansive home that includes: many
bedrooms, a front and back door, a pantry of sorts, a bathroom (which
is cleaned regularly) and a nursery (or nesting room).

10. Prairie Dogs realize the impact that their population has upon the
environment in which they inhabit. Therefore, they breed only once per
year and practice their own form of population control if resources
become scarce.

11. Prairie Dogs tend to get the blame even when it is out of their
control. The Rock Squirrel is actually the biggest culprit in the
transmission of animal plague to human counterparts and even then it
has only effected 10 people in the last 13 years.