South American Rodents Found in Seattle (Big 'uns! Hide yur cheese, They're here Alert!)

I lived in an area that actually had some geese stay year round due to hot water discharge keeping open water year round even when well below zero, in the summers some would nest near and on our farm.

They can definitely leave a mess and affect the area and not in a good way when large flocks are involved.

I've heard of the problems there and elsewhere.

21 posted on 04/15/2006 5:09:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)

To: NormsRevenge

Jim McDermott, Patty Murry, Maria Cantwell, thousands of geese and now giant water rats.

Fortunately, we're in the process of moving.

23 posted on 04/15/2006 5:12:08 PM PDT by CWOJackson

In Louisiana, they tried publishing recipes for nutria in an attempt to get people to assist in their eradication by eating them. When that didn't work, they put a bounty on them, but again, no luck.
They finally got smart and passed a law making it illegal to kill and eat a nutria. Cajuns couldn't resist and the nutria population has been going down ever since.

24 posted on 04/15/2006 5:16:23 PM PDT by T-Bro

To: NormsRevenge; All

Cooking Nutria

Life-long residents of these parts say just about nuthin' beats well-prepared nutria. The meat on this rodent adapts well to a variety of cooking styles, especially Cajun recipes. But you don't have to get fancy to enjoy it. My momma used to serve up fried nutria at least once a week, and I'm including her recipe on this list.

Some folks turn up their noses at the thought of dining on these critters. I say get off your damn high horse and live a little. Nutria meat is surprising lean without the so-called "gamey" taste that city folk associate with deer or squirrel. A lot of people say it tastes like rabbit, only better. Female nutria are as tender as slow-cooked pork, though males can get a little tough.

Depending on how you prepare it, nutria is a tad odorous during cooking. Before frying, trim off any fat you see. When browning the meat to add to a stew or gumbo, canola oil is your best bet. Soaking the meat in a bowl full of beer, preferably Pabst Blue Ribbon, will cut down on the stench as well.

Bunky reminds you all that the best way to save nutria is probably to smoke them slowly over a hardwood fire. Salting works as well, but you then have to rinse and soak the meat before you use it. Pickling or canning is fine for prepared sauces, but they don't keep nearly as well. Of course, the Bunk really thinks nutria should be eaten fresh and is checking around with school lunch programs and prison kitchens to see what their needs are.

Come on by the palace and cook along with Pappy, learning these and many more recipe delights.

Recipes:

* Momma's Fried Nutria * Heart Healthy "Crock-Pot" Nutria * Nutria Pate * Nutria, Wild Boar, and Crawfish Egg Roll Towers

25 posted on 04/15/2006 5:18:37 PM PDT by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)

Not a big deal. Nutria have been in North Carolina for years and years.

26 posted on 04/15/2006 5:18:45 PM PDT by ncObserver

To: NormsRevenge

Why does that seem funny in a way?

Nope not gonna say a thing..not gonna go there...sitting on hands now...

27 posted on 04/15/2006 5:22:07 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Buy Danish!)

Waterborne relative? ;^)

28 posted on 04/15/2006 5:23:07 PM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)

To: manwiththehands

No, they're eating the beavers American dykes won't eat...

29 posted on 04/15/2006 5:27:42 PM PDT by JRios1968 (E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")

To: NormsRevenge

Did you make sure to retract the opus? :)

30 posted on 04/15/2006 5:28:43 PM PDT by JRios1968 (E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")

31 posted on 04/15/2006 5:37:23 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (Some people are like Slinkies: totally useless, but fun to throw down a stair.)

The solution is simple. Korean barbeques will solve it.

32 posted on 04/15/2006 5:40:01 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)

To: doug from upland

Is the pet food industry regulated to such an extent that some one with an entrepreneurial spirit would not consider it as organic food and healthier for your pets?

33 posted on 04/15/2006 5:57:29 PM PDT by pennboricua

I hear ya. here we have boxer feinstein pelosi , honda is my local rep here..

Good luck when and where ya move.

34 posted on 04/15/2006 6:10:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)

To: NormsRevenge

What happened to the day when you could take your 22 down to the slough and pop off a few pests...

35 posted on 04/15/2006 6:23:32 PM PDT by tubebender (Tagline...I don't need no stinking tagline...)

To: cripplecreek

*groan* Uh, I mean *moan*

36 posted on 04/15/2006 6:26:06 PM PDT by null and void (Pay no attention to the imam behind the curtain...)

To: NormsRevenge

Got 'em up here in Oregon too. Almost hit one with a golf ball a couple years ago as it was crossing the fairway between a pair of large ponds.

37 posted on 04/15/2006 6:30:20 PM PDT by Hexenhammer ( Oregon: She dies by her own prescriptions)

sigh..

we used to have a gas delivery guy, Cliff, used to carry a 22 in his cab, he'd pick gophers off way out there in the fields, guy was a dead eye,, use to get 25 cents a head for them,

A thing this big? no problemo ,, not sure how well they'd BBQ up tho,

38 posted on 04/15/2006 6:31:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)

To: NormsRevenge

39 posted on 04/15/2006 6:47:55 PM PDT by SampleMan

One of my brothers drove a fuel truck on the west side of Fresno county and he carried a 22 and a single shot 16 gage. If the pheasant was close enough he used the shot gun. Longer shots he tried to shoot the head off...

40 posted on 04/15/2006 6:52:21 PM PDT by tubebender (Tagline...I don't need no stinking tagline...)

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