For over two years, Denny and Myra Lacoste raised Neuty the nutria as a pet. After initially attempting to seize Neuty, officials will allow the animal to remain with his adoptive family.
Owning a nutria hasn’t been free of challenges. About a year ago, Myra went to start her Mercedes, only to have the car’s sensors go berserk. After towing it to a shop, a mechanic told her that a rodent had chewed through the wiring. The cost to fix it: $1,400.“I said, ‘That’s it, you’re going back to the canal,’” she joked.
Native to South America and imported to Louisiana for their fur, nutrias have been proliferating near the state’s coastal waterways for nearly a century, according to the. When the fur trade collapsed in the 1940s, thousands of nutrias got loose or were set free. Their numbers exploded, and for decades, they’ve burrowed under levees, dams and ditches, weakening and at times destroying parts of the state’s flood-control system.
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