Long story short: I needed a good concept for an earth totem, and started to think about what kind of animals were close to the earth... perhaps, in fact, IN the earth. Thus was born the idea for a prarie dog shaman.

Yes, that is a shamanic shovel.

Heavily influenced by the work of Ursula Vernon. She does amazing things with tiny animals... read Digger, if you haven't yet.

Possibly also influenced by painkillers. My back's out. I dont know when it will return, it said it just needed to go buy smokes...

The arms are too long and the lower paw on the spirit sucks, but eventually I will fix it. Eventually.