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TexasTowelie

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Sun Nov 12, 2017, 04:06 PM Nov 2017

"This is completely inhumane": Longmont prairie dog colony exterminated [View all]

A sign posted at the edge of a vacant lot in east Longmont indicated to passersby that a colony of prairie dogs, which have been the source of tension between the property owner and prairie dog activists, were exterminated en masse sometime Friday morning.

“They had an opportunity to move them,” said Jeremy Gregory. “This is completely inhumane.”

Gregory said he is executive director of Tindakan, a nonprofit support organization for “eco-social justice issues,” and he came to the scene to document the extermination.

“My objective was to witness and document what they were doing and disseminate the information,” he said. “(That way) people are aware of the immorality of this profits over life mindset.”

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/10/longmont-prairie-dog-colony-exterminated/

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