http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/colorado-developer-halt-prairie-dog-massacre/
Poisoning and fumigation—the most common methods of killing prairie dogs—cause convulsions, vomiting, internal bleeding, gradual pulmonary and cardiac collapse, and a variety of other reactions that cause animals immense suffering and a slow, agonizing death. Yet developers of The Promenade at Castle Rock, a 160-acre mall project underway in the town of Castle Rock, Colorado, reportedly want to massacre hundreds (possibly thousands) of these animals who call the site’s open spaces and wetland areas their home. And despite an outcry from compassionate citizens, the Castle Rock Town Council has green-lighted this slaughter, which is scheduled to occur in the coming weeks. Your voice is needed!
Using the form below, please politely urge Alberta Development Partners and Castle Rock officials to halt this cruel killing initiative and to employ humane prairie dog control methods instead. And please forward this message widely!
Please send polite comments to:
Peter Cudlip, Principal
Alberta Development Partners
pmc@albdev.com
Castle Rock Town Council
TownCouncil@CRgov.com
Please feel free to use our sample letter, but remember that using your own words is always more effective.
Exposing the Big Game 
Yes more development for more people and more money and more killing of wildlife, nothing new in the advancement of progress in America. Sent e-mails.
Nope, nothing new. Humans win, wildlife loses. Thanks for emailing.
Stop the prairie dog killing. Thank you!
I could not believe this propaganda by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “Untold” numbers of prairie dogs in CO? Sounds like how Idaho manages its wolves. Untold. Also, absurd scaremongering saying that prairie dogs spread bubonic plague! You might be more forgiving of ordinary dimwits, but these people are supposed to be ‘managing’ our wildlife based on science and being professional. They also seem to subscribe to the Dan Ashe theory of “there’s plenty in Canada”. Only other parts of the nation and Canada are wantonly destroying their wildlife too.
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the state population of prairie dogs is very healthy overall.
“I do think the animals in that area, the raptors and other species that eat prairie dogs, have plenty of other food sources available and the removal of the prairie dogs will have very little if any impact on the ecosystem,” said Jennifer Churchill, a spokeswoman for CPW.
Churchill said while many in certain areas become attached to the prairie dog colonies they live near, CPW takes a macro-view of animal populations and said there are still untold numbers of them in Colorado — especially in the less populated portions of the state.
CPW also confirmed that prairie dogs are in fact carriers of some diseases that can be spread to humans, like the bubonic plague.
Link to above:
http://castlerocknewspress.net/stories/Activists-continue-fight-for-prairie-dogs,182035
Thanks for the link; I posted it here: https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/activists-continue-fight-for-prairie-dogs/
Churchill is full of it if she thinks prairie dogs are common throughout the state. The reason they like the suburban areas is that they can’t be shot at there like they are in rural places, where people make sport of it.
Good point – I had forgotten that there are those who think it is fun to turn them into ‘red mist’. Conveniently left out by the wildlife department.