I am not sure who you all are out there but this is a quick and easy way to the word out. I am Fred, the Mayor of Waterton City. I know you humans call it Waterton National Park... but when it comes to Prairie Dogs, we outnumber you and this is a thriving place, and our lake side underground condos right here are particularly nice. This is where we are having problems. I saw a few humans leave an iphone unguarded on a picnic table, and with all four paws, I can whip with a touch screen. So here's the story and maybe you can appeal to get the humans to leave us alone.
First off, we have a spectacular field of homes, tunnels and passageways. As Mayor I get the dry spot underneath the foundation of the picnic shelter the humans built some years back. Things have been pretty good of late as the humans usually only turn up in July and August asit is too cold here the rest of the year (that's when I go visit the relations on the upper ridge. But two weeks back it all changed. Some human carpenter types came in and ripped the shingles off the roof of the shelter. They made a racket and left just the roof planks (it looks like they are replacing the roof but when??). So since then the rain has been dripping through the wood planks, puddling on the concrete floor and seeping into my dry tunnels. Yuck. Then to top it off, last eve in the dark, while my whole family was comfotably sleeping in one of the higher tunnel bedrooms (the lower living room is flooded with all the rain on late), these four silly humans come in the picnic shelter and set up their tents on the concrete floor with the roof leaking everywhere (it was pouring rain). Can you imagine the stupidity??? They made so much noise that they woke up the kits. Once they finally settled down, one of them snored up a storm. It was horrendous. On top of that the macho woodpecker Joey started hammering at the metal flashing on the chimney at 5 am to strut his springtime territory stuff. That even woke up the humans. Ha ha.
And the humans, once they woke up they draped all of their stuff all over the main city tunnels on the back lawn. They said their stuff was wet. Ha ha. So a bunch of my relations tried to sneak up on their food stashes near the two wheelers but they were so mean that they kept threatening us. Just about the time Billy was about to sneak up on a bag of corn nuts from behind, who should show up but Jack the Crow and Sheena and Dreema the Magpies. Jack got one peck at the corn nuts but by causing all the kufflalo, the humans were alerted and they confiscated the corn nut to stash where we couldn't get it. Then to top it all off, one of the humans played tourist and tried to get a close up picture of some of the relations standing up at the door of the tunnels. Well did we have fun with her. Danie
lle and Sean would tempt her by just coming into range but dive into a tunnel before she could snap a photo. The rest of us watched her frustration from our tunnels behind and to the side of her where she could not see us. Ha ha. Anyway, I am digressing. Could you tell the humans to stop bothering our city. Also we would like a bowl of corn nuts daily. I heard the four humans moved up to a highland campground in Waterton City for tonight. That's no problem as we find it to cold up that away this time of year.
Oh no, here comes the the big human with the dark blue shirt. They will likely reclaim this blog tomorrow. Check back if you want to find out what happens to them... But... Please, speak up for Prairie Dog Rights!
Fred
First off, we have a spectacular field of homes, tunnels and passageways. As Mayor I get the dry spot underneath the foundation of the picnic shelter the humans built some years back. Things have been pretty good of late as the humans usually only turn up in July and August asit is too cold here the rest of the year (that's when I go visit the relations on the upper ridge. But two weeks back it all changed. Some human carpenter types came in and ripped the shingles off the roof of the shelter. They made a racket and left just the roof planks (it looks like they are replacing the roof but when??). So since then the rain has been dripping through the wood planks, puddling on the concrete floor and seeping into my dry tunnels. Yuck. Then to top it off, last eve in the dark, while my whole family was comfotably sleeping in one of the higher tunnel bedrooms (the lower living room is flooded with all the rain on late), these four silly humans come in the picnic shelter and set up their tents on the concrete floor with the roof leaking everywhere (it was pouring rain). Can you imagine the stupidity??? They made so much noise that they woke up the kits. Once they finally settled down, one of them snored up a storm. It was horrendous. On top of that the macho woodpecker Joey started hammering at the metal flashing on the chimney at 5 am to strut his springtime territory stuff. That even woke up the humans. Ha ha.
And the humans, once they woke up they draped all of their stuff all over the main city tunnels on the back lawn. They said their stuff was wet. Ha ha. So a bunch of my relations tried to sneak up on their food stashes near the two wheelers but they were so mean that they kept threatening us. Just about the time Billy was about to sneak up on a bag of corn nuts from behind, who should show up but Jack the Crow and Sheena and Dreema the Magpies. Jack got one peck at the corn nuts but by causing all the kufflalo, the humans were alerted and they confiscated the corn nut to stash where we couldn't get it. Then to top it all off, one of the humans played tourist and tried to get a close up picture of some of the relations standing up at the door of the tunnels. Well did we have fun with her. Danie
lle and Sean would tempt her by just coming into range but dive into a tunnel before she could snap a photo. The rest of us watched her frustration from our tunnels behind and to the side of her where she could not see us. Ha ha. Anyway, I am digressing. Could you tell the humans to stop bothering our city. Also we would like a bowl of corn nuts daily. I heard the four humans moved up to a highland campground in Waterton City for tonight. That's no problem as we find it to cold up that away this time of year.
Oh no, here comes the the big human with the dark blue shirt. They will likely reclaim this blog tomorrow. Check back if you want to find out what happens to them... But... Please, speak up for Prairie Dog Rights!
Fred
Location:Waterton National Park, Alberta
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