How Desperate Would You Have To Be To Eat A Prairie Dog?

When you don’t have much of a choice, cold worms are a good source of calories and protein.

At least that’s what Jesse Butts told Cowboy State Daily his uncle figured when he once got stuck out after dark while on a fishing trip back in the 1970s.

“He figured, ‘I’m hungry, and I’ve got to eat something. He hadn’t caught any fish, so he ate his worms,” said Butts, who works in the sporting goods section of the Laramie Murdoch’s store.

‘Caviar’

Granted, his uncle Don (last name withheld) was tougher than most —not only in stomach, but overall fortitude.

When he took that fateful fishing trip, he had just returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam where he served as a “tunnel rat.”

That was a special breed of soldier who volunteered to go into the honeycombed networks of tunnels the Viet C