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A Nutria caught in a trap placed by biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, at the China Island state wildlife area near Gustine, Ca. on Wed. May 2, 2018. The Nutria is a threat to agriculture, water infrastructure and wetlands according the the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
They dont even taste good. Gazillions of them in the south. A lot in Louisiana.
The answer is simple. Convince the Chinese that the liver is an aphrodisiac. They’ll all be gone by spring.
I wouldn't.
I don't do rat...at least not yet.
Wait until the Apocalypse...they'll be chasing them all over the place.
Set loose the dogs of war! Let go the slings and hammer of outrageous fortunate!
Release the cougars, dire wolves, sabre-tooth tigers and grizzly bears and polar bears!
(Or just allow hunting ... for a profit.)
https://boingboing.net/2013/04/29/meat-from-a-20-kb-swamp-rat-t.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/05/31/nutria-other-red-meat.html
There is always the possibility that Bob Sacamano can have one made into a hat.
I have a 17 cal that would work wonders on thinning the herd.
Ship them to the Everglades to feed the pythons!
Them thangs breed like rats.
Oh wait a minute.
They be rats.
A perfect living meme for California’s RATs.
Don’t know which is worse; nutria or armadillos...
When I was a kid my buddies and I would go up on the Bald Hills and spend the day shooting grey diggers. Didn’t have SWAT teams back then.
I remember the “Raise Nutria in your Basement or Garage for fur!” back in the 1950s. How’d that go over.
Hahaha,
!Cali soooo deserves this new incursion of illegals!
Time for an oldstyle solution:
Give a $50 bounty on each Nutria turned in. Allow leghold traps (very effective on nutria, and humane, the trap drags them underwater and drowns them), and snares. Allow them to be hunted without limit.
California will not do that, because it would be politically incorrect. Better the state be overrun with vermin than allow the common man a hand in eradicating them.
$50 each would be cheap compared to what they are paying the six man “eradication” team.
Six people, full time, six months. Figure $25 an hour minimum in California, with benefits. That is six thousand hours or $150,000 dollars.
They got 200 nutria. That is equivalent to $750 bounty for each!
Depending on size, quality and quantity, nutria pelts are worth from $11 to $25 apiece.
http://www.righteousfur.com/wholesale-pelts-price-list.html