I know there are real serious concerns about this in LA too but there they are blaming a lot of it on the huge number of homeless they have nowadays.

Now that you mention it, I was told by a veterinarian when I moved to Denver that fleas can't live here. It was too dry. We had just adopted a cat and he told us to remove his flea collar. So why are there fleas on prairie dogs?

(Frantically arranging rocks to spell out SOS.)

Denver’s been infested with rats for decades

It's not so much the homeless as it is the rats breeding out of control due to a never-ending supply of trash to eat. (Piled up by the homeless) so I guess we can blame those stinking homeless for being poor and I'm sure Trump has something to do with it.

Can't argue that.

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I might sure they got it from about 53 mangie donkeys that inhabit the area.


If they need the situation sorted out, I could be hired.

Are the prairie dogs black? If so we should call them prairie Dawgs.

We have the same problem with the prairie dog population near Seligman AZ. Game and Fish has been trapping them to assess the degree of infestation. I'm pretty sure it's drier in the high desert near Seligman than it is in Denver, and the p-dogs in Seligman definitely have plague-ridden fleas.

P-dog management usually means shooting them en masse. Lots of fun with high-velocity, explosively-expanding projectiles.

When I did my epic northern road trip last month, we stopped at a prairie homestead museum that featured white prairie dogs, which is apparently unusual.

The museum had an area where you could walk around and look at a sod house and some farm equipment, and the prairie dog holes were all around. As we walked, the prairie dogs were emphatically sounding alarms that we were in the area. And I found myself wondering why they still do that in a museum where you presumably have people regularly walking around. It seems like those prairie dogs must live a high-stress life if they're sounding the alarm for every visitor.

Well, that would sure disappoint me if we have fleas here. I've long considered that a selling point.

I'm sure they're paid to do that. For the tourists you know.