a pigeon-toed prairie dog

0metolearn, I'm laughing out loud over this one.02br
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00Pigeon toed, for future reference, means that your toes point in a little bit, instead of your feet being parallel. I'm slighly pigeon toed myself.02br
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00A prairie dog is a cute little animal that lives wild in the prairies. 02br
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00But together, this is a nonsense exp

0Hi, GG.02br
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00"A prairie dog is a cute little animal"02br
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00A prairie dog is not a real dog. I wonder why there's a word dog in the name of "prairie dog"?02br
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00Thanks for your reply.0-

0Sometimes "dog" in a name means "of little value" ("dog fish", "dog rose"); sometimes it means "dog-like in some respect".02br
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00In this case, it's the latter. According to Walker's Mammals of the World, the various kinds of prairie dog utter "a sharp chirp, which may be likened to a bark; hence the name 01i00prairie dog02i00". 02br
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Yes It's true and I heard it in Laurel & Hardy's BIG GUNS Minn 2

This might be said by an adult male inhabitant of the Western United States to indicate he's a down home, folksy type of person, born and bred in the Western part of the US. For example:

"Ah, heck. I'm just an old pigeon-toed prairie dog. I don't know nothin' about hedge funds and derivatives and stuff like that."