In my neighborhood, the prairie dogs have turned into hypersuicidal lemmings. The roads are positively littered with roadkill.
Maybe the plague has finally gone to their heads.
Maybe a large portion of the coyotes have really died off (something I’ve heard, but can’t find a reference for…) to some degree and are sorely missed.
Either way, it’s gross.
A few days ago driving through Longmont I was coming up on two prarie dogs hovering over the bloody corpse of their friend in the road. Being surrounded by traffic I couldn’t swerve so I hoped for the best and kept the wheel straight. At the last minute they both ran…in opposite directions. One caught my left tire, the other…my right. I found it mildly ammusing and chuckled to myself as I saw both rolling down the road in my rear view mirror. Just doing my part to help out in population control.