The weekend started with 200 hunters showing up for a revived nutria rodeo.

It ended with a big, stinking problem: a 10-ton pile of dead rodents.

Rodeo organizers had to get creative to get ride of the carcasses, and fast.

NOLA.com journalist Tristan Baurick captured the entire saga in his series of stories this week.



'It was the most fun I've ever had': Revived 'Nutria Rodeo' bags 1,500 rodents
When Audubon Zoo refused Nutria Rodeo's 10-ton heap of dead rodents, organizers got creative



Twitter had plenty to say, and joke, about the uniquely Louisiana situation.

Article has too many pics and ads to copy in it entirety.

LINK: https://www.nola.com/news/envi...12-732987beb2ad.html

Maybe someone should revive the fur coat business, as long as the furs come from invasive species.

Hats; make hats out of the fur. One of the best hat bodies ever made in my opinion!

If you just want to read the article itself, about the nutria and how they were disposed of, use this link: https://www.nola.com/news/envi...39-6b8b8d3cb475.html

The link posted in the OP is just a link to a list of Twitter comments.

(In case you're like me and want to know what happened, but don't really care what the Twits have to say about it... )

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Nutria were imported as a replacement fur bearing animal for beaver as the pelts are similar in characteristic. Many "beaver" hats made by Stetson and other hat makers were actually nutria hats.

Nutria are a menace in the Willamette Valley in Oregon where I grew up as they will decimate grass seed crops.

I used to get paid $1.00 per carcass from some of the grass seed farmers when I was a kid back in the 1980s

Thanks, Rogue.

I are confused. I thought rotten meat was as much of a turn-on for alligators as it could ever be for crab. I also would've thought there'd be one or two known holes where at least a couple dozen dead nutria could've been dumped when they were relatively fresh where the local fauna would've been happy to make them disappear. I guess I sorta learned something.

What a great story, and the comments are great.

From the thread title, I pictured a single 10-ton nutria. Now that WOULD be a problem!

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Originally posted by whanson_wi:
From the thread title, I pictured a single 10-ton nutria. Now that WOULD be a problem!

I puzzled about that, too.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by whanson_wi:
From the thread title, I pictured a single 10-ton nutria. Now that WOULD be a problem!

I puzzled about that, too.

flashguy

I also thought they were going to need some air support to deal with that problem....

A big explosion like they did with that whale. At least there won’t be 1000lb slabs of flesh landing on things.

There was an episode of Duck Dynasty where they made sausage out of them. I'm not sure I'd want to try that...

Interesting article

Love that team name .. The Nutrializers

I live in Oregon and you can see them in broad day light along the freeway, I wish I knew a few farmers who would let me walk there fence rows and drainage ditches to have some target practice.

They must not taste bad because Cajuns eat them

That said Cajuns won’t eat the clams in Lake Pontchartrain

Audubon Zoo:

--"They were coming in hot and smelly."
--“The time of death [and] record heat...was not conducive to feeding these animals to our alligators.”
--"Oh, God. Please, no.”

Where 's the meme with Godzilla coldcocking the ten ton Nutria with a Twisted Tea?

I think next year I would tell the Zoo to go pound sand and call up the crabbers

Nutria is, AFAIK, the only fur bearing critter in Maryland subject to an unrestricted extermination order from our Dept. of Natural Resources.

No permit, no season, no restrictions. Kill if you can and they’ll thank you for it.

Unusual around these parts.

-Rob