A new home for dozens prairie dogs has been donated by property owner in Sedalia. The dogs were trapped at the Promenade at Castle Rock construction site near Interstate 25 and Meadows Parkway, a controversial shopping mall development site.

Protests heightened after a re-location plan for the animals fell through earlier this week. Two Castle Rock women had been caring and feeding temporarily the prairie dogs on behalf of a contractor who was working to relocate them to New Mexico when they were seized.

The prairie dogs were living in large metal troughs lined with wheat grass in the garage. The developers agreed to work with Bold Visions Conservation, an environmental group out of New Mexico to relocate some of the animals. However, there was drop in those plans. That's where activist Deanna Meyer and others stepped in to save the dogs.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said, "Unfortunately the site where they wanted to move it changed their mind and does not want to accept the prairie dogs and there was not a permit by New Mexico Game and Fish".

Meyer started pushing to have her 400 acre property in Douglas County approved as a new home for the animals once she realized that the New Mexico location was no longer a viable location.

However, Colorado wildlife officials said that they found an area in Douglas County to relocate 100 prairie dogs. They seized them from the Castle Rock woman's garage and will moved to land in Sedalia near county open space.

A contractor will begin digging burrows for them so that they can be happy in their new habitat.