prairie dogs at the zoo

- you can't have one.
- why not?
- where would you put it?
- in a tupperware bowl, on the counter, or under the bed.
- it'd suffocate.
- no, i'd leave the lid off.
- then, it would run away.
- no it wouldn't, it would love me and want to be with me forever.
- you can't catch one anyway.
- yes i can, they don't have anywhere to run.
- see those holes? they can run down there.
- they have to come out sometime, and i'll be waiting over the hole with a tupperware bowl.
- they'd bite you.
- their mouths are too small.
- your fingers aren't that big.
- i'd be too fast for him.
- he'd squirm.
- look, one's coming over here. c'mere little dogie.
- dogie's are cows.
- he's a prairie dogie not a cow, silly.

prairie dog: a small american rodent (cynomys ludovicianus) allied to the marmots. it inhabits the plains west of the mississippi. the prairie dogs burrow in the ground in large warrens, and have a sharp bark like that of a dog.