LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) – The Department Wildlife Conservation took a safe approach to help the city of Lawton relocate the prairie dogs from the Elmer Thomas Park.
Due to the new construction and Holiday Parade in the park, the Department Wildlife Conservation used a safe and more humane approach to capture the prairie dogs. Their goal is to relocate and release them where they can reestablish their colonies.
Last month they relocated about 40 animals and today they got close to 60 prairie dogs that will be transported to a different place. A few prairie dogs will remain in the Elmer Thomas Park as Lawton residents want them to stay.
Kurt Kuklinski Wildlife diversity and research supervisor for Department Wildlife Conservation gave his opinion on how the city is handling these animals.
“It is a really, very humane and wildlife conservation oriented approach for the city to do this, Kuklinski said. Live trap, capture, and safely release prairie dogs where they are not harmed in the process. They get a chance to reestablish and create a new prairie dog colony in the wild.”
Authorities promised that using soap and pump water to wash the prairie dogs out of their burrows is not harmful to the animals. As soon as they dry them, they put them in the straw bedding, use the flea and tick treatment and feed them.
They will safely transfer prairie dogs in Sandy Sanders Wildlife Management Area.
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