Only one state, South Dakota, remains plague-free, and it contains about a third of the remaining black-tailed prairie-dog population.
According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, only seven major (bigger than 10, 000 acres) black-tailed prairie dog towns remain.
But in a strange conjunction of events, it may have been this same black dog - together with the intervention of a loyal friend during a few fateful days in early May 1940 - that enabled Churchill to achieve the position from which he could alter the course of history.
Yet there were times when he felt his life had been futile, and the mood of despondency that had sometimes come upon him in his most active years - which, following Samuel Johnson, Churchill called the "black dog" - seems to have been with him in much of his later life.
Beware the Buggane -- a mischievous spirit who blows the roofs off buildings, or the ghostly Moddey Dhoo -- a nocturnal black dog associated with electrical storms.
He always wore snow-white T-shirts, black pants and black penny loafer shoes, and as he blithely dog-cussed his brother he bent over, took off one loafer and dumped several neatly folded bills into his hand.
For a black candidate in an era of dog-whistle politics, it was a gamble: tackling head on one of the trickiest subjects in America.
Mark Madoff appears to have hung himself in his upscale Manhattan apartment with a black dog leash and was discovered Saturday morning by his father-in-law.
And should you wish to up the ante at any point, you could add a pair of sparkly earrings and some heels, or conversely throw a cozy black cashmere sweater over the top for a dog walk or a TV-watching marathon.
Extreme wealth may have satisfied every pink-Cadillac dream, but it did little to chase off the black dog.
They were of dog owners, mostly the working-class poor in heavily black neighborhoods like the now famous Ninth Ward, who refused to evacuate without their four-legged loved ones - cats too.
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