It has been a few years, since well before COVID, that I made a visit to the nearby Prairie Dog Town in University Kiwanis Park.
This relatively chilly first Monday of the 2026 version of March seemed a good day for a prairie dog visit.
I've thought prairie dogs to be real cute, ever since I first visited one of their towns, years ago, near the entry to Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming.
Prairie dogs don't bark. They make a sort of chirping noise, almost bird-like. I heard a lot of chirping today.
Several years ago an effort was made to contain the Kiwanis Park's prairie dogs inside a sort of fenced enclosure, because a lot of prairie dogs had migrated outside the enclosure, building new homes, making hazardous holes on the open parkland.
Well, there did seem to be way fewer enclosure escapees, but I saw at least a dozen outside the enclosure, including the dog you see photo documented above.
The below prairie dog was the first I saw today, upon exiting my vehicle.
This prairie dog was inside the enclosure, and was nicely cooperative about being photographed, letting me get close.
Has anyone ever succeeded in domesticating a prairie dog, I wondered today. I sispect not...
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