Hanging out on the dock in Molasses Creek yesterday and saw this animal that we could not identify at first. Then realized that it was a Nutria. Contacted DNR and they explained that it was an invasive species to SC and the only other sighting was in Horry County.
If you have seen one or think you saw one, add it on to this thread. Just curious if anyone else has run into it. It looks like a cross between a river rat and an otter. But obvious that it was neither.
Can you eat them things:question:
Not sure, I will let you be a guinea pig. This thing looked to be up to 20lbs. No small animal. Their fur is worth something though.
The Cajuns in the bayous eat them. I’ve seen a few, never tried eating one myself, but they are big and meaty.
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I’m pretty sure I saw one at the salt water side at bushy park, it popped out a bush where my cousin was sitting and nearly scared him into the water.
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Yeah, but Larry, them Cajuns will eat anything, that don’t eat them first:smiley:
quote:Yeah but i'd definitely eat a guinea pig!
Originally posted by Gas CanNot sure, I will let you be a guinea pig. This thing looked to be up to 20lbs. No small animal. Their fur is worth something though.
If it’s meat I’ll eat it!
Those things almost took over parts of the US Virgin islands a few years ago. A very smart man started a rumor that if you would dry their livers and smoke them it was a powerful form of LSD. Dang near wiped them out in no time!
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Or a cure for AID’s
Two Cajun’s, one named LeFeet and the other Bocefuss, were out in the swamp one night gigging frogs. Along about midnight a strange light appeared in the swamp and a round saucer looking thing crashed into the cypress tress about 200 yards away. Curious, they paddled over to the strange looking object and noticed that a couple of weird looking creatures appeared to be injured inside of it. Lefeet said…" Look at dem strange critters all tangled up in der Bocefuss. You reckon they is space aliens?" Bo said…“I ain’t sure what they is LeFeet, but go and put the rice on!”
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I sure hope they don’t get out of control like they have everywhere else! It’s rumored that in New Oleans or close by, they are so abundent that they have a ‘season’ on them!
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I grew up in Louisiana and they really are a nuisance. I’ve had a few bites of one. Not very good. There are some coonasses that cook them up pretty well from what I heard. Shoot and leave them sum*****es!
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Originally posted by StumpNockerI sure hope they don’t get out of control like they have everywhere else! It’s rumored that in New Oleans or close by, they are so abundent that they have a ‘season’ on them!
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Nutria are invasive species with no natural predators to speak of. They can cause extensive damage to native vegetation, so kill all you see and leave them to the crabs. Nothing but trouble for our coastal wetlands.
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First one I ever saw was in a canal at the air base in Belle Chase La. back in the early 80’s. Thought it an otter from the distance, almost as big as med size dog, and those weren’t very afraid of folks. Pocket rocket makes them move though!!!
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I was anchored up on a mud bank one day in the yak eating lunch and had one of these things jump out of the spartina grass a few inches away from me! Scared the living hell of me and out of instinct I wacked it across the head as hard as I could and he scurried away haha. Thought It was an otter but now i know what it is after reading this post. Those things are everywhere…hmmm well I am looking for more crab pot bait…
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Are you guys sure you weren’t seeing a mink? Those are actually here and not a lot of people know about them. I’m not sold on nutria being here yet.
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Ain’t no Armadillo’s or Coyote’s or Panthers either:smiley:
Oh, there’s armadillos alright. Every time I go to Bennett’s point I see at least 10 dead on the road before I get to Walterboro. Coyotes are a whole other problem, but I’m not sold on the state having nutria. I think maybe Penny had some pictures of mink in the marsh?
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