Bastards

[KenP]

Yetti, try something like this next time:
Video: http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9612/16/suc...arge.30sec.mov

http://www.strangemag.com/mixedbagar...ml#prairiedogs
PRAIRIE DOGS GET SUCKED
A report out of Amarillo, Texas, reveals that Dog Gone, a company specializing in pest control, has a profitable use for the prairie dogs it eliminates from U.S. sites.

It sells them to Japan--at $700 per animal--after collecting them in a gigantic vacuum cleaner.

This suction device was invented by Gay Balfour, the co-owner of Dog Gone, reported the May 24, 1996 Washington Post.

On May 21, some three to four dozen valuable rodents were sucked out of their underground dwellings by the machine and deposited into a containing area. Only creatures of lighter weight made the trip through the big hose, because of the machine's specs.

The other co-owner, Dave Honaker, spoke of capturing only the littler prairie dogs, and added, "They make good pets; they're real trainable and social animals."

His announcement did not answer certain questions that could occur to one. Like: how much did the process traumatize the creatures, and how did the wholesale removal of their young affect the parents left behind in the colonies?

However, the company's methods are certainly preferable to other, more fatal, types of "pest control."