What's to eat around here.

[tamrock]

Later yesterday afternoon, I took my mut's out for a stroll along the trails in the low bluffs that follow along the local creeks. Much of bluffs has been set aside as open-space and trails have been put in place from the town of Broomfield through my town of Lafayette and all the way to Erie Colorado. It's several miles of some wide open country to explore in this hectic area I live, so these efforts to preserve this country has made living here rather nice and a good place to get a little peace, though you will still hear all the traffic in the distance and a constant roar of airliners going overhead, but what can you do when you live in a place of massive growth. I spotted a coyote out for dinner in the distance and it stayed poised in this statue like position for some time only inching ever so slowly forward. I was hoping to see it turn on it's afterburners and make a score, but the prairie dogs were on to it and their relay of alarms warned all that could hear an attack was imminent and the prairie dogs and bunny's all took cover underground, because the coyote, just laid down and gave up not to waist it's energy for a surly hopeless looking result of a kill. I read that when there's danger such as this in the prairie dog colonies the prairie dogs will allow the rabbits in their holes also to escape the danger, but after the coast is clear the rabbits gotta get out. The afternoon sun was hot and the creeks do make for a nice place for the dogs to cool off just before we head back home.

 

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[A2coins]

Great post

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Thank you for sharing!

 

[Inspector]

Great story & post & photos, ty4sharing

 

[old digger]

Nice! And the dogs got to go for a dip.

 

[WannaDig3687]

That's an interesting bit of information about the bunnies being able to seek cover in the prairie dog hole. I like looking at your prairie dog pics because it is something I don't see around these parts.

Aww, the dogs are cute!

 

[tamrock]

That's an interesting bit of information about the bunnies being able to seek cover in the prairie dog hole. I like looking at your prairie dog pics because it is something I don't see around these parts.

Aww, the dogs are cute!

Yeah, they love to go to this place. It was a special trip, as Ollie had to have a little surgery done yesterday. He had a fatty mass on his leg and the vet did a needle exam and looking under a microscope at the cells, she said it was something that should be removed and analyze to see if it may be cancerous. He spent most the day under anesthesia having it removed. He's still pretty uncertain this morning on what's going on. Hopefully that mass is nothing.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Oh! I hope it is not cancerous! Poor Ollie!

 

[tamrock]

Oh! I hope it is not cancerous! Poor Ollie!

Me too. After all that and being under anesthesia he came out very uncertain about the world around him and even me. Poor dog didn't know what the heck was going on. Tonight he's a bit better and soon I know he'll be wanting to get out, but he's got 14 days till the sutures are removed, so the world's gonna seem even more sad and uncertain to him.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Good luck keeping him from gnawing at the bandage.

 

[tamrock]

Good luck keeping him from gnawing at the bandage.

He's really good at leaving it alone. Tomorrow morning I take him in to have it removed to see how well it's healing. Then he'll get another fresh wrap.

 

[tamrock]

That's an interesting bit of information about the bunnies being able to seek cover in the prairie dog hole. I like looking at your prairie dog pics because it is something I don't see around these parts.

Aww, the dogs are cute!

Just about every other vacant lot around here is occupied by prairie dogs. They're definitely a resilient little critter.

 

[WannaDig3687]

I believe I remember you (I think) posting a video on how they "vacuum" the little critters up.

 

[axelrich]

Quite an interesting post it is, thanks for sharing..

 

[tamrock]

I believe I remember you (I think) posting a video on how they "vacuum" the little critters up.

Yeah that was the prairie dog removal guy. About every 5 years he'll show up in the open space behind me to reduce the outward expanding prairie dog town by sucking them out. Sometimes they're relocated elsewhere and other times they end up as Hyena treats at the zoo. Folk either love em or hate around here. In the open space behind me, they relocated them there maybe 20 years ago now. Before the field was rather pretty with taller grasses. There were lizards out there then and more fox. After the prairie dogs establish themselves, they devoured the tall grasses and the lizards are no more and the fox have disappeared, as the coyote have run them all off. Sadly the barren ground allowed the establishment of more invasive weeds and nasty grasses. Today the rabbits are in large numbers as they could hide better from the coyote in all the new holes dug up by the prairie dogs and there's a bunch more birds of prey around going after the rabbits and prairie dogs.