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Nope Prairie dogs are in family Sciuridae in the rodent order while gophers are family Geomyidae. Sorry I get real paranoid when people mislabel animals.
It would seem you are correct. I was unaware of this fact as where I'm from, there are a large number of prairie dogs, but everyone, for as long as I can remember has always called them gophers. It would seem that a lack of education turned into local terminology. Thank you for correcting me on this matter :3
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That is a very round gopher o.o