I ran out on a call, and when I got home...I really, really, really had to pee. I know, TMI, but it's the story. So I ran to the bathroom, and I saw the door was ajar. I knew that wasn't gonna be good... I flipped on the light and...OMG!!!

Nixie was looking at me with this completely pleased with herself expression as she groomed and played in the toilet water. Needless to say she got no kisses last night. She had been on the counter, in the cabinet, in the tub, chewed the shower curtain, and obviously she ended

up in the toilet of all places. I had JUST cleaned the bathroom and had carriers stacked in there to clean as usual. Life with water babies, and lawd I love this perfect toilet water princess.

Nixie is a nutria/coypu/swamp rat, native to S. America, and at some point they were purposely brought to the US for fur farming. Rodents escape, that's all there is to it, and when the swamp rat fur coat industry didn't take off (surprise, surprise ), farmers went bankrupt

and just released them. They have set up nicely in the US and they are prolific breeders like most rodents. They are semi-aquatic herbivores, with FANTASTIC dispositions. They would have inevitably migrated here just like armadillos, but since things are what they are here

with "wildlife services" they are considered invasive species and are mercilessly massacred with rewards for their bodies because they say they destroy wetlands. Now, all of my life they have sprayed to purposely kill aquatic plants in lakes and other human stolen water

areas, and no one cares what happens in a swamp because they can't live in it, develop it, rape it and make money off of it, so someone would have to show me some serious proof that they actually cause damages to those areas.

All of that hooplah and horse hockey makes them

illegal to release. @ringtail_rescue got my 4 in and needed to place them. I love everything rodent, so I was happy to have an excuse to love them forever. Nixie is one of the 3 tots I've raised!

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