I will never keep them coz we cannot provide a natural house/cage setting for it in captivity.

Also, they are wild caught, illegally taken away to become pets.

In USA, it's illegal to keep prairie dogs coz of monkey pox. This can pass to human and it's bad.

http://www.prairiedogs.org/pets.html

Pet shops just making money by providing another exotic pet in the market. But honestly, I think gliders and ferrets make better pets than prairie dogs. At least gliders and ferrets are bred in captivity and not kidnap from wild.

No lah. It's not normal dog.... it is a rodent. Imagine a giant field rat with short tail like hamster.