This is one recipe I WON'T be using but wanted to share with you anyway.

oh dear...that doesn't sound appealing at all!do people even eat raccoon and beaver to begin with or is it just just as humour in the article?:) definitely ick....i wouldn't be able to eat any of those particular critters! but thanks for sharing this....it WAS kind of funny:)

that is gross all the way around-doesn't matter how much gravy is on it.I like wild game too but thats just awefull..

oh dear...that doesn't sound appealing at all! do people even eat raccoon and beaver to begin with or is it just used as humour in the article?:) definitely ick....i wouldn't be able to eat any of those particular critters! but thanks for sharing this....it WAS kind of funny:)

This is disgusting. I used to live on a lake here in my state and they would have these creatures would come out of the water and get on the shoreline, they are so ugly and disgusting. No, I would never eat such a thing, I would rather go hungry.

Yuk!!!! raccoon - possum - Beaver - Rats - No can do! That sounds terrible - well - not bad if you used something other than rat. I would have to be starving and have not eaten until I could not survive anymore.

Thanks, anyways. I love food but I wouldn't try something like this. There are actually a lot more like that here in our country where people tried almost all kinds of insects and animals to be their food because of the poverty here. But some would still rather be hungry than eat those creatures which I think are not really intended to be eaten by man.

After reading this, now I know why my mom said New Orleans smelled when we went there in 97, lol. It wasn't the trash or anything, it was those nasty water creatures. I'm sorry but the only time in my life that I ate a wild creature was when my parents played a cruel joke on me. My mom gave me a piece of meat and told me it was beef. After I ate it, dad was like how did it taste, honestly it was not that good. It tasted as if my mom added to much salt, well they started laughing saying you just ate deer. After that I wouldn't eat any meat unless I saw it come out of the store container. I couldn't eat, cook, look at a water creature. Next thing we will hear is people in the larger cities eating sewer rats, heck some people probably do. This has really helped stop my hunger pains. Which is a really good thing, since it's almost 9 and I already ate. That might actually bring back up what I ate, lol. According to that it talked about catfish and crab. I don't eat those either, I know that they eat fish droppings and its gross. Have fun cooking, while your husband enjoys hunting, and fishing.

I really dont think that I would eat rat but I have had possum stew before when I was a kid and I have had rabbit also but as for other animals if I cant buy it in the store I aint eating it... but thanks for the link to this paper it has a lot of interesting reading. happy posting

Yummy LOL It wouldn't be my first choice certainly, but I don't know... possibly I would try it just to see ..although perhaps I would prefer not to know what it was until after I was finished. I tried so many strange foods in my life, that I suppose I would be open to this one too as long as I knew it was safe to eat. After mad cow, problems with pork, mercury with fish and the bird flu... maybe that could be an alternative LOL

I have visited the link and found out what they suggest.Earlier, that is some 15 years back, I have read in some Soviet magazine that the food for humans in the 21st century would be some wild rodents and the shrimp cryll ( I am not sure of the spelling)found in the Arctic. That seems true. The link you suggested propose to cook a wild rodent nutria for food. Any way people in our part of the world, that is Kerala in India, are very reluctant in eating nonconventional food. I can't even suggest such a thing to my wife. Any way thank you for the information.

Omgosh! EEEEEWWWWWWWW!!! iii!! Turns my stomach just thinking about it. No i would not try that even if I was starving!

This is a musk rat right? I have never heard of using a river rat's fur. They look just like the rats in New York. The musk rat looks like a beaver with a rat like tail. I wouldn't eat it unless I had to do it to survive. I wouldn't eat opossum or groundhog either. =x

UMMMM thanks for the link,I think...I would not even be willing to try it. No way No how. I guess i'm just not very willing to try new things.

I don't think I would care very much for eating a rat or whatever polite name you would want to call it. Where I live in New Zealand we eat huhu grubs. They are like a slug and live in a tree stump. Pine stumps are the best because the flavour goes right them. Yummmm. My wife will bite the head off then you just eat them up. Taste just like peanut butter.

I have tasted alot of different animals. Rabbit, snake, squirrel, emu just to name a few. One thing I will not try is rat. That is just weird.

Here is a picture of a Nutria.....just in case for anybody that didn't know what they look like.

I know we all make fun of it.....but my guess is....if you tried it and didn't know what it was....you most likely would like it.I've seen that all to many times with food that my grandma used to fix....including kidneys and horse meat.The funny part is....when people turn a little green when you tell them what they just ate. I have eaten frog legs and rattle snake before and those are actually quite tasty.Besides rabbit.....I can't say I have ever eaten any rodents or at least not knowingly. I don't think I would go and hunt those critters or even try to fix it myself....but if given the chance....I might take a little sample.Can't be any worse than eating some of the foods we already have on our dinner plates.

Oh my...I've lost my appetite...Nutria? Perhaps hiding the "ish" factor under a name that sounds nutritious? I smell a rat!!!! I can't say I'm up to any of the mentioned delights...I did see the word turkey..and that seemed more along the lines of my tastes...There's wild game and there's rotten rodent...I'll give most wild game a go..with enough gravy!!!! But I think I'll pass on this creamed critter...blechhh...:)

i Myself just moved from the miss gulf coast and i am aware of the nutria thing I love southern cooking but on this one like yourself ill pass !

I must admit ha. I assumed it was a guy speaking ha, he has a point! Critter looks like a very clean to eat animal, compare to other poultry. Not to mention pigs too, when you think sometimes of they eat, I'll rather eat the roots eating critter. But I don't think I'll be trying it soon. Especially that Louisiana is far from the Philippines. But if I had the chance. Maybe a polite bite won't hurt. (^^,LOL) as long as it is cook already and haven't see the critter's face first. Have a nice day! (^^,)