ONE of my favourite springtime activities is watching the prairie dog mommas introduce their babies to the outside world...they bring them up, out of the burrow, and show them off. If the baby strays too far from the burrow, as kids will do, the momma runs over and gets them and sometimes cuffs them up side the head.....the little ones run with their little black-tipped tails straight up..I know Spring has arrived when I see the babies.