The Trouble with Nutria

The state of Louisiana has put a bounty of $4 a tail on the Argentine swamp rats that are eating up the bayou. The nutria were imported in the 1930s as a possible fur trade animal, but then got way out of hand.

Now hunters are out picking off the little buggers as part of the Nutria Control Program, which in the next few weeks aims to put a big dent the 400,000 nutria population.

Failing that, beaming them aboard a Klingon starship might be an option.