re: #338 reine.de.tout

Now, here’s an interesting animal, the nutria, a large aquatic rodent, that has orange teeth.

Very destructive animals - those teeth never stop growing and they have to gnaw nearly constantly to keep them at the right length.

Intersting control method:

A man named Mike Hotard, owner of Hotard Wildlife Control, has discovered the Patterdale terrier is highly-effective at helping rid an area of nutria. He showed how one of his dogs, Sybil, gets the job done.

“He’s itching to get in the hole to go find ‘em,” Hotard said. “They (nutria) are very destructive, but these dogs are very well-trained and they basically come out unharmed. They hold them in one place and we dig down and remove them.”wafb.com