May 06, 2015

CIMARRON COUNTY, OK – Federal and state leaders are sparring while a state lawmaker attempts to bring a solution to a rural cemetery in the Oklahoma panhandle, where prairie dogs have run amok.

The Rita Blanca Grassland runs adjacent to a local cemetery near Felt, Oklahoma. In recent months, prairie dogs have invaded from the grassland into the cemetery, creating sink holes and damaging property.

Human bones from grave sites dating back to the 1920’s are visible on the surface, and burrows into the earth are evident where relatives of the deceased thought their loved ones would rest peacefully. Roberta Boydston is one of those family members.

“It is very devastating to those who have family buried there. The dogs are undermining the cemetery and causing destruction that no one wants to see.”

Local cemetery officials claim that the U.S. Forest Service has neglected the job of controlling the destructive prairie dogs, and protections over another specie are preventing action being taken.

“It all comes down to [The Forest Service] wanting to introduce an animal called the black footed ferret. The ferret has never lived here and we’ve never seen any in all of our years maintaining the premises,” said Daryl McDaniel, Chairman of the Board of Bertrand Cemetery.

“Introducing and protecting an animal that has never lived here is giving us a lot of headaches. We can’t spread poison to kill the prairie dogs, and that’s our most effective way of doing so.”

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recovery plan for the black footed ferret is expected to cost over $150 million by 2040.

Film at 11..... 😟

Victor loses his neighbor and groundhogs move out of the cemetery.

I call that a win win.

Methinks Victor is full of poo-poo and was baiting a trap which failed to spring.

No need for ferrets... relocate a few hawks. They'll settle them prairie dogs down.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it actually happened. The homeless problem in SF is getting pretty bad these days, to the point of where one of the churches actually installed a water dropping deterrent system to keep the homeless from sleeping and ****ting in the alcoves around the building. As for "failed to spring", nah, it did, the irony of some of the responses is hysterical.

Okay, the trap may have closed, but it didn't slam shut... it was kinda like an automatic door closing.

Victor is a MASTER baiter.

Can I use that in my linkedin profile?

This one is definitely going in my dating app profiles...

I find it hard to believe in a city run by liberals could have any issues at all.

Are you SURE there are homeless people in SF?

Next thing, you'll be telling me is there are problems in Washington DC, Chicago and Baltimore.

Prairie dog problem? Shotgun.

Dating app profile?..... Oh oh. I never did hear how the vacation went. Guess I now know.

I was actually thinking a 7mm with a good scope.

That was a joke for effect... it's actually a fiance now, but that takes too much typing.

Did that happen before or after you paid the homeless guy to stomp her dog..?? 😕

I was just thinking about this the other day... because I don't think a lot of people in other cities realize what someone means when they talk about "all the homeless"... I considered taking pictures for you guys... or counting how many people are sitting on the sidewalk... I'll easily see a dozen people I would assume are homeless in just the 2 blocks I walk to the parking lot. And the line at the shelter down the street is 2 blocks long at every morning and evening as the wait for free food... they are more like locusts than people.