When my eyesight was still good, I was a bit of an amateur photographer. This is one of mine.
Prairie Dog. All you Americans will be able to tell me – is this actually a rat, not a dog? I had my suspicions when I threw a stick for it.
Life through the Lens (24 October 2021)
Mister Bump 
Not a rat those are much smaller! That’s pretty freakin close though with your camera lens! 👍😁
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jeez, I can’t remember how far away I was. It was a farm here that opened to the public. Unusual animals: buffalo, rhea, these. We do have a few buffalo farms here as people extoll their meat over beef.
We have to worry about rats here, btw. Especially as we keep chickens so there is food available.
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My Welsh friend and her bf had rat problem for long time but I think the rat went to another house to co habitate now
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They are common here, unfortunately. I could do with borrowing your dogs for the afternoon. Reuben (boy cat) brought one in, once. Dead, fortunately. We had to stop putting bird food out because of the rats.
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Oh the oldest Sascha aka Sheriff would lead you straight to rat whole Eddie the labradoodle would corner it but I’m a catch and release person when it comes to animals
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Reuben seems to have things under control ! 👍
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Reuben is a real hunter. I hate that about cats.
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Yup I do too
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Definitely a rodent. Why call it dog though?
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not a clue!
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Misky says squirrel family
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WWF says they’re related to the squirrel family.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/8-surprising-prairie-dog-facts
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rats, then. 🤣
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Definitely not dogs. Good to chase though! D. 🐾
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Could be a gopher.
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I’ll bow to your knowledge.
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Oh, unrelated. Notification settings are on your “profile” page. Hit the round icon of “you” in the top right. In the menu on the left, one of the options is “Notification Settings. One of the options is “site achievements”. Presumably there is some similar navigation in the iOS app?
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Ill give it a try.
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I checked and that notification settings function doesn’t seem to be on the iOS app.
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That’s pants. It’s on the web site but I’ll have a poke around next time I fire up my tablet. Hopefully they built the iOS and Android apps similarly.
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where did you see that prairie dog? 😀
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wiltshire!
I could say he just popped up one day, maybe took a wrong turn? But this was on a buffalo farm and they had a small collection of unusual animals.
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Prairie dogs are so cute. We have them all over here, but they stay in the fields mostly, or empty lots in town. We’ve had them come in the yard a time or two. We have here a whole part of a park set aside for them called Prairie Dog Town, and instead of a ground hog predicting the weather in Feb. it’s Prairie Dog Pete here. 😉
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oh wow! that sounds like great fun. So do they “do” anything or do they just co-exist? I’ve got a vague recollection that there might have been a family of them here, but they were definitely isolated. They don’t exist here.
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I think they just make burrows and look cute. Lots of ranchers don’t like them, but I’d say most people love watching them. Here is a link to our Lubbock TX Prairie Dog Town, and several videos of the little critters!
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=prairie+dog+town
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