Neuty, a pet nutria that became a Louisiana legend, died on Saturday, according to his keepers. In his last months, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Heathcock retrieves a nutria; swamp rats feed ­heavily on the root systems of marsh grass. I CAN’T HELP but be transported ...

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Beloved Louisiana nutria, "Neuty" dies after his battle with cancer.

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive rat-like rodent — recommending that people try to turn it into a delicacy.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Neuty, a 5-year-old pet nutria living in New Orleans, has an inoperable tumor as cancer spreads. According to owner Myra Lacoste, a CAT scan was scheduled for ...

This is the story of the Florida iguana. Which parallels closely with the story of the Louisiana nutria. But more on that in a minute. This cold snap has reached deep into Florida, which makes it ...

“Nutria” is a word only occasionally overheard at the rodeo; the proper name confers a dignity that the species long ago forfeited. Nutrias are more often called “rats,” adorned with such modifiers as ...