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City: Pershing Avenue prairie dogs being ‘controlled’

February 2, 2014 by PDP

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By LARRY PHILLIPS

• Leader & Times

Though many people, including children, adore prairie dogs because of their cute, furry looks, cities and counties classify them as a nuisance and deal with them accordingly.prairie_dog

Liberal and Seward County are no different.

After numerous phone calls to the L&T asking what happened to the prairies dogs that lived just south of the railroad tracks on Pershing Avenue, L&T contacted the city.

The city has admitted the prairie dogs were poisoned in an attempt to control them from spreading throughout the area.

 

 

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