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dave

It didn't look like a Coypu to me.

There was this one a little while back . http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/15696471
Coypu have those distinctive orange teeth .

Dave

Giant rat my ass! That is a Geordie mouse (pronounced moose) which is a well known delicacy here in the North East.
With a little bit of seasoning, a soupcon of curry sauce and a side order of chips and washed down with White Lightning cider it is a meal fit for a king.
Tuck in lads and lasses!

Geordie bloke wrote:Giant rat my ass! That is a Geordie mouse (pronounced moose) which is a well known delicacy here in the North East.
With a little bit of seasoning, a soupcon of curry sauce and a side order of chips and washed down with White Lightning cider it is a meal fit for a king.
Tuck in lads and lasses!

:shakeshout: :shakeshout:

Average Brown Rat is about 12 ounces, anything over 16oz is a good 'un. I have seen verifed photos of one over 2lb, and that was big.
I would think that apart from the advantageous angle of photography of that beast, it may have been an exotic species? Cane rat or similar?
Certainly not nutria.
And no such thing as river rats or water rats.

Geordie bloke wrote:Giant rat my ass! That is a Geordie mouse (pronounced moose) which is a well known delicacy here in the North East.
With a little bit of seasoning, a soupcon of curry sauce and a side order of chips and washed down with White Lightning cider it is a meal fit for a king.
Tuck in lads and lasses!

Forgot to mention bonny lads and lasses. We also let wor bairns (our children) put saddles on them and ride them like donkeys.
Then we eat the little buggers. (The moose I mean).

Dave 101 wrote:There was this one a little while back . http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/15696471
Coypu have those distinctive orange teeth .

Dave

Its all in the pic, look how the pic was taken, at arms/stick length. The 'rat ' was a standard river sewage rat .