Let's Move the OTN Prairie Dogs!

Help the Old Town North prairie dogs get back where they belong - to the prairie!

With the help of our friends at the Prairie Dog Coalition, Northern Colorado Prairie Dog Advocates is headed back to Cathy Fromme Prairie in Fort Collins to relocate prairie dogs from the Old Town North neighborhoods, where construction and imminent development have left the resident prairie dogs with nowhere to go.

Please donate whatever you can. No gift is too small, and every gift will make a difference for these prairie dogs. We need to pay for relocators, equipment rental and supplies to make the move safe and successful for the OTN prairie dogs. We all have to pull together to make this relocation happen!

To count toward our campaign, all donations must come initially through us. For a sense of our costs, and to help guide your donation, please consider the following:

*$25 - $35: One bag of grain, for trapping or to sustain relocated prairie dogs. We'll need several bags as we move into the post-relocation phase, when we monitor the colonies' new homes throughout the winter.
*$30: Veggies for relocated prairie dogs for one - two days.
*$40: Relocation permit from Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
*$70: Arbors and hole saws to make the new front doors in the nest chambers (where the prairie dogs will shelter while they make their new burrows).
*$210: Three 20-foot lengths of drainage pipe to make the nest chambers.
*$2,100: Commercial insecticide dusting of take site, required by the City of Fort Collins and CPW.

Home for the Holidays! You can move these prairie dogs to safe & forever prairie homes - and check off your gift list! We'll bet that you will never find a more meaningful or interesting gift than supporting a prairie dog relocation. For a donation of $50, we'll send a tribute card, with your sentiments, to the recipient of your choice. 

How to order your gift donation tribute card: Donate through this page, then email us at [email redacted] with recipient name and address and your wishes. Please note: The deadline to order your tribute card is Dec. 14, 2018. 

Prairie dogs are a keystone species. When you help them, you help all the species who depend on them. Everywhere you turn in Colorado, prairie is being transformed into housing, storage units, shopping malls, and bike trails, and prairie dogs are vanishing as a result. This relocation will help almost 200 animals start new lives on protected public land.

By supporting  the relocation of the OTN colonies, you say that prairie dogs matter and make more people aware of relocation as a humane solution, which could help save other colonies in the future.

* Want to learn more about prairie dogs and relocation?  Click on Prairie Home, above, which chronicles our first relocation project to Cathy Fromme in 2016. 
* Want to learn more about us?  Please click here.

You can spread the word! Share this campaign on your Facebook page and with friends, family and anyone who can help us get the OTN prairie dogs back to the prairie.

Your contribution is a donation to the Prairie Dog Coalition of The Humane Society of the United States and is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Thank you!
Thanks to Emma Balunek for this image.