Nutria

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eating anything in sight sending my wife into orbit.

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Damn fine eating.

MawMaw used to brown them in the skillet. Make a gravy with the grease. Put them in a crock pot with the gravy. Make some rice. Man that was some fine table fare. Haven’t had any in a long time.

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Damn fine eating.

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Just checked a few sites on-line that offer nutria meat for sale and they are stupidly priced per pound--------between $40-50 a lb.

Find someone who takes them for their tail and give them $10 for the carcass and clean it yourself-----profit.

When I'd get mine I would go duck hunting or fishing with my brother-in-law and on the way back in I'd shoot a couple to take home. Catch them swimming across the bayou and head shots are easy with a .22 and no damage to the meat on the body.

Beavers are very good eating also.

Very similar but beaver is better IMO.People are turned off by the naked tail
on a nutria but I don’t see any difference in eating them vs.a squirrel or a rabbit.

Wife and I took a trip to Alaska, I asked several residents if they liked to eat beavers.They all said yes but porcupine was better.

When we were in Talkeetna the shuttle bus driver was from Mamou,had been in Alaska for 20 years.He had lived “off the grid” for most of that time but had recently moved to town.Got tired of not having utilities,etc.

Another interesting thing happened,I saw a woman with a dog on a leash(thank goodness) that looked like a Catahoula Cur.I went up to her and asked her what kind of dog it was,it was indeed a C.C..Damned dog jumped up and tried to bite me in the face.
She wasn’t from Louisiana,I forget how she acquired the dog.