Everything I know about nutria I learned from an episode of Dirty Jobs, where host Mike Rowe rode along one night with a county worker plinking nutria with a .22 from the back of a pickup truck. Just driving down some neighborhood street, middle of the night, backlit by a gas station. The driver stops, they shine a light on a small creature in a drainage ditch, then pops off a shot.
The “dirty” part of the job was wading into the ditch at midnight to retrieve the dead rats; but the real threat was the likelihood of gators living in that same section of ditch.
