Prairie dog for dinner....

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Onionskin

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While looking for pd towns on one of our local reservations, we ran into (actually, they came within inches of running into us)two very inebriated locals. Oh sure, they knew of some dogs, and they did. Before parting, one of them said he wouldn't mind having some to eat...so I said I'd shoot them in the head. He didn't care. So, after pounding them a while, we put on gloves and bagged up a half dozen. Took them down the road a couple miles to his trailer house, nobody home. Oh well, I hung them on the door knob, and we left; temperature was about 90 deg. Next day about noon, we were heading out, and went by the trailer. No bag. Still don't know if he actually ate them....or buried them. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
We headshoot some rockchucks for the local Paiutes. Glad its them and not me..... Rodent, it's not what's for dinner. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I checked on some regs for a couple of years ago about Colorado rock chuck shooting and I seem to remember something about only having a 2 chuck limit and having to take them as table fare or be ticketed for wanton waste. I am not positive on this, but that's kind of something like what I read in the small game reg book.
 
obaro You are 100% correct on the rock chucks. The #*&*# bunny huggers snuck that in a few years ago They also have a season with dates on can and can not shoot.I cleaned one once it made my hands stink like skunk for 2 weeks.Never tried cooking it wife wouldn't let me keep it in the freezer.
 
Do some studying on the Great Depression. There were folks who canned p-dogs and gophers so they would have something to eat. Hope we don't get to that point.
 
My GF lent me a cookbook composed of recipes from the days of the old Santa Fe trail. It wasn't just a compilation of recipes, but it had time specific letters written by some of the old pioneers. IIRC, it had around half a dozen recipes for pdog, as well as moose nose, buffalo guts (simply thrown on the fire, uncleaned, until they turned gray), skunk (considered a delicacy by the French trappers)....and the one that leaves me cold more than the others....

....raw, fresh, warm buffalo liver flavored with a squirt of bile......

But, as to pdogs.....I've hunted critters all my life, and I'm not squeamish. And I've killed more thousands of pdogs than I would ever care to remember....but it's all I can do to make myself turn a dead one over with the toe of my boot. Pdog = vile critter. They're "cute" only at 75 mph from the Interstate.

Mike
 
It is not my intention to push this thread to a different venue; howver, if things don't change in Washington soon, we may all be considering PD's as a real luxery!
 
I suppose they taste like chicken. Chicken that live underground in the confines of small dirt caves with dozens of their bros, potentially passing diseases amongst themselves. Makes me want to warm the oven..........
 
Hey I really like cats. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif





I just can't eat a whole one myself. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
My grandpa told me about a guy he knew that ate prairie dogs all the time.My grandpa never tryed any but they might not taste as bad as you would think or he wouldnt have done that.Sorting out the ones that dont have the plague might be a little tricky so I dont think I'll try it any time soon.
The guy I mentioned also lived in an old railroad car too so that kinda makes me wonder about the whole prairie dog eatin deal.He was either a strange character or he was too poor to buy a house or food.I never met him so your guess is as good as mine.

My uncle worked with a guy that is Cherokee I think but not real sure.Anwyay he told my uncle they ate prairie dogs when he was younger too.They also ate porcupines.He said they would dig a hole and start a fire in it and then they threw the porcupine in there and let all the quills and hair burn off.Im not shure how they could tell the meat was done or not but they would cut that giant rodent open and started eatin after it burnt for a while.
 
I have actually eaten cat...big cat. I bagged a cougar with my bow a few years ago, and we saved the loins. When I got home from that hunt, in Idaho, I told my bride it was 'elk', and also passed on the instructions I was given on how to fix it. Sure enough, she cooked it up, and it was quite good. She didn't even go ballistic when I told her what it really was. Another time, we had cougar chislic. That definitely had a feline smell to it, while cooking, but was great eating. A few adult beverages may have tempered our taste buds on that one.
 
I'd love to see a rolaids commercial showing some guy ready to blow chunks after eating a PD, then see him saved by downing an entire bottle of antacid.
 
This reminds me of two friends who were out in western SD, scouting, the day before archery antelope season opened. They noticed a road killed jack rabbit lying on the road, but didn't think much of it. Next day, they head to that area to hunt, and observe a car load of native americans stopped there. Watching from a distance, they saw the rabbit being tied onto the car top....and off they went. They never did decide if the car was just too crowded...the rabbit just too nasty...or what! Pass the rolaids!!!
 


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