Utah Stop Feeding These Little Park Animals

Here's what everybody says: don't give a hobo money because they probably spend it on drugs and if you follow them after their shift standing outside Best Buy, you'll find them getting into a pretty respectable Civic.

I'm one of these guys where if you make eye contact with me I'm giving you my entire Roth IRA (if I had one).

So anytime somebody has a sign and a look of "I may have served in Vietnam" I'm slamming on the throttle into on-coming traffic. If they see me seeing them, I'm throwing everything I have out the window: Fiesta Fun passes, sunflower seeds, wedding ring, etc...

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But when it comes to animals, I have no problem staring them down and refusing them a taste of my Ritz.

Get the heck outta here!

Beat it!

That's what I might say to them.

Utah Stop Feeding These Little Park Animals

And according to the nps.gov: (LINK TO FULL ARTICLE)

"As a visitor to our [Badlands National Park], we ask that you do not add to the list of challenges for prairie dogs. Please do not feed the prairie dogs. Prairie dogs have sensitive stomachs and cannot process human foods. These animals can bite and many of them still carry the plague."

They might carry the plague??

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That's right. Apparently there's something called the Sylvatic Plague which is basically the Black Death when it comes to animals. It came over on a ship back when Teddy Roosevelt was president. These little guys can still have it and if they bite you it's night-night for Bozo.

What are your thoughts on feeding wildlife?