Beavers in Houston?

jcdenton

jcdenton

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My ex-wife claims she took her nephews to a place near Houston called Meyer Park and saw several beavers living in the pond there. She said they went up close and fed them bread.

I'm a little skeptical of this because I've never heard of anyone encountering beavers in Texas before (although apparently they do reside here), and my ex-wife has been known to have touble identifying animals in the past (she once couldn’t tell if a baby snake was a snake or a worm, and she once thought a deer was a baby giraffe).

At the same time, I’m not sure what else they could have been, if not beavers (otters?).

Anyone know anything about this?
 
BUT, I have seen beavers and signs of beavers (cut down trees) in Texas when I have gone out in lakes and sloughs near the Trinity River. They are most definitely among us.
 
Did your ex also find a cat?

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There are beavers on my parents' land in North Texas They tore down a bunch of trees to build a damn on the creek that runs through their property. This was about 10 years ago. My Dad declared war on them and would try and shoot them whenever he could. It was pretty hilarious how worked up he got over it.

ps - I thought this was going to be about a strip club as well
 
I didn't think beavers were friendly enough to be hand-fed. The ones I've seen before were scared as hell of people, and would haul *** at even the sight of a person.
 
HH, as a small town City Manager (cum Code Enforcement Officer, cum Finance Officer, cum et al), who lives in a town inundated with Yankee and big city transplants, your the pic included made me luagh.

We had a lady call the other day complaining about her neighbors cat making awful noises and turning her garbage bins over, she described it as "having a striped tail, black paws and a unique dark patch over the eyes". That's one coon who got a free ride (although very sleepy) to a spot 16 miles from the City limits...

To the original poster, I've seen beaver (of the variety prone to building dams and killing trees, that is) in Montgomery County just north of Houston. However, as everyone else has stated, I think it far more likely your ex and the kids fed Nutria which are in short a BIG RAT, worthy only of a spotlight, .22 magnum rounds and a 12 pack.

Man, I'm sounding more & more redneck by the minute...

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Danno
 
I've seen beavers while hunting on the Louisiana sides of Caddo Lake and Toledo Bend, so I have no doubt that some inhabit Texas, too.
 
There's beavers in Texas almost anywhere there's water. I've spent thousands of hours fishing the rivers and lakes in this state over the past 50 years and I've seen them just about every where.
 
We take our kiddos to Meyer park quite a bit. It is just off of Cypresswood in Klein and right next to Cypress Creek. The animal in question is indeed a nutria, or as we called them back in NB, river rats. That reminds me of a time we were at the park one Saturday morning. The kids were feeding the ducks and my son was trying his damndest to catch a red eared slider that was hanging out along the bank. A mother walked up with her child, both looking like a Ralph Lauren commercial, saw our two dirt and mud stained kids and gave a disapproving look. Who cares, right? Normally that is our m.o. but in this particular case the women proceeds to tell her kid to "Look at the beavers Mckenzie." My wife then corrects her in her politely subtle way. The women then asks my wife why would she would think they were nutria and not beavers. My wife then answers as she gestures 5 feet behind the woman," Because that is what that sign says they are." Needless to say, the woman did not hang around after that.
 
The rat-like tail of the nutria is the giveaway, as opposed to the flatter tail of the beaver. I see them a lot and they don't seem aggressive at all. They walk around with the ducks looking for food, but scurry away when a dog comes near them.
 
god those things are gross and quite destructive too. i know a guy that has browned & stewed them before (he told me this while drinking with him at toledo bend - guess which side of the lake i was on). my 79 year old grandpa, cajun as they come, looked at him and said "*******, pat, don't tell me that. you are one nasty sonofabitch." that was pretty funny coming from a guy who used to shoot cranes and stuff & cook them on the farm when he was a kid - along with most anything else at least once.
 
There were a couple of beavers right in my northeast Austin neighborhood up until a few years ago. There is some undeveloped city parkland with three ponds on it, and the last pond always has water. Beavers had constructed a dam there, but unfortuneately they either moved down the creek, which runs into Walnut Creek, or more likely the rumor I heard that the property owner adjacent to the pond shot them for chewing down his trees.
 
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