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 Prairie Dogs As Pets?, Any people havin these cute lil furballs

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crazymouse_yyh
post Nov 29 2009, 09:03 PM

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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.
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post Nov 29 2009, 09:23 PM

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QUOTE(leongal @ Nov 29 2009, 09:09 PM)
u mean stray dogs? my grandpa takes in stray dog, because he lives in a big garden (cos he is a gardener); well...i think they are quite intelligent...if u have time to train it....my grandpa has a this "prairie" dog that listens so much to him; but at the same time, they can be fierce too....
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No lah. It's not normal dog.... it is a rodent. Imagine a giant field rat with short tail like hamster.

 

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