[header] How to buy prairie dogs [title] Contact your local animal shelters. [step] Injured or orphaned prairie dogs are occasionally turned over to shelters by wildlife services. Shelters also occasionally have domesticated prairie dogs that are surrender by their owners for a variety of reasons. 
Go online to get contact information for the shelters in your area and give them a quick call. [substeps] If you adopt from a shelter you will generally have to agree to get your prairie dog spayed or neutered by a certain date, if it hasn't been done already.