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So even Rat na meat ? God abeg, please forgive my black brothers hunger is real

KFC Burger will do just fine..

olaolaking:
What food do you use to entice the animal?

press9jatv:
they plenty for that hole 🕳️ no be small.

Chai!
I pity d innocent creatures o

Truvelisback:
What's the difference between this rat 🐀 and the ones at home?

The tail, maybe the dentition as well....and some people can tell from their coloring I think.

Majesty33:
Are these not domestic rats that has grown so so big and now dwell in the forest?

There are ways to differentiate them.

Love800:
Dear konq.uest... so after you have researched and found out its bush-rat(african giant rat), if its cooked and presented to you, will you eat it?

@Love800

That's an interesting question.

To be honest, I WON'T. I would rather go for the Grasscutter that is reared on farms. That would be more preferable as you do not know what kind of zoonotic diseases some of these bush meats contain... Although many people around Nigeria have been eating well-garnished Okete (cooked in Egusi soup and more with pounded yam delicacy). I definitely recall that I "may have eaten it" in the past WITHOUT knowing (especially back in the early 1980s) while traveling privately by road as a result of a holiday trip from the North of Nigeria to Lagos State through Jebba in Kwara State and we stopped over in Jebba to eat some highly refreshing pounded yam and what was termed tasty "bush meat" Egusi soup from one of the several Yoruba-owned canteens along that Jebba bridge axis which crosses the river Niger linking Kwara State to Niger State, but I can't bring myself to doing so now. Ebola and Lassa fever infections are caused by eating animals such as gorillas and rats caught in the wild if NOT properly cooked.

Although the broad-term "Bush meat" is used to describe any animal caught in the forest or bush such as antelopes, bush rat (African giant rat), python snakes, hedgehogs, monkey and gorilla 🦍 meat loved by the Ijaw folks of Bayelsa as posted by an NL user a few years ago and more, I would rather stick to farm-reared animals such as snails, aquaculture and/or sea foods, turkeys 🦃, chickens, or the Grasscutter, etc.
I hope this history helps.

press9jatv:
you can get it in ogunpa market in Ibadan. Just have #10k.

But I'm in Lagos

The 3 major difference between a bush rat or rabbit as we like to call it and a hoise Rat.

The house rat is smaller than the white tipped bush rat or rabbit.
The house rat has black hair.
The house rat no matter how big does not live inside a dug hole.

The bush rat or rabbit is bigger.
The bush rat or rabbit has brow hair.
The bush rat has a white tipped tail.
The bush rat only lives inside hole I digs.



NOTE: you can only find brown coloured rats in the bush and are all edible whether big or small.

ikorodureporta:
But I'm in Lagos

you can get it in Lagos too. But it's much in Ibadan (ogunpa market precisely)

Peacecore:
Chai!
I pity d innocent creatures o

don't pity, what of the other little animals they have eat nkooo.

Mattswaggz:
There are ways to differentiate them.

Oooh, u mean the ones with white color at the end of the tail is fit for consumption? My dear, it is the same rats but the very big ones in the forest is what humans assume to be rabbit and then proceed to consume.

Onewazobia:
Train?, hmmmm okay oo

Yes indeed, sir, the truth can be stranger than fiction. Here is a short video about trained African Pouch Rats employed to detect land mines in Cambodia.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxY3aEsesss&t=167s

softyorubaboi:
KFC Burger will do just fine..

Can I order for like 4 containers?

Majesty33:
Oooh, u mean the ones with white color at the end of the tail is fit for consumption? My dear, it is the same rats but the very big ones in the forest is what humans assume to be rabbit and then proceed to consume.

Stop saying what you don't know.... Their teeths and choice of meals differ to some extent okay.

And Rabbits are entirely different in looks compared to these guys....only the ignorant will assume them to the rabbit....bush rats are different from giant house rats and both of them are different from rabbit....if you can't tell the difference, simply ask and stop saying what you don't know.

Great write-up.

I really appreciate.

Konquest:
@Love800

That's an interesting question.

To be honest, I WON'T. I would rather go for the Grasscutter that is reared on farms. That would be more preferable as you do not know what kind of zoonotic diseases some of these bush meats contain... Although many people around Nigeria have been eating well-garnished Okete (cooked in Egusi soup and more with pounded yam delicacy). I definitely recall that I "may have eaten it" in the past WITHOUT knowing (especially back in the early 1980s) while traveling privately by road as a result of a holiday trip from the North of Nigeria to Lagos State through Jebba in Kwara State and we stopped over in Jebba to eat some highly refreshing pounded yam and what was termed tasty "bush meat" Egusi soup from one of the several Yoruba-owned canteens along that Jebba bridge axis which crosses the river Niger linking Kwara State to Niger State, but I can't bring myself to doing so now. Ebola and Lassa fever infections are caused by eating animals such as gorillas and rats caught in the wild if NOT properly cooked.

Although the broad-term "Bush meat" is used to describe any animal caught in the forest or bush such as antelopes, bush rat (African giant rat), python snakes, hedgehogs, monkey and gorilla 🦍 meat loved by the Ijaw folks of Bayelsa as posted by an NL user a few years ago and more, I would rather stick to farm-reared animals such as snails, aquaculture and/or sea foods, turkeys 🦃, chickens, or the Grasscutter, etc.
I hope this history helps.

Omo u dey miss ar swr that's not house rat o, its called bush Rabbit, city Boy

Teeroyzimma:
lol you guys are disgusting how u go chop rat

Mattswaggz:
Stop saying what you don't know.... Their teeths and choice of meals differ to some extent okay.

And Rabbits are entirely different in looks compared to these guys....only the ignorant will assume them to the rabbit....bush rats are different from giant house rats and both of them are different from rabbit....if you can't tell the difference, simply ask and stop saying what you don't know.

Anyway, i hereby agree with u on difference between bush rat and giant house rats and therefore keep consuming bush rats for the nourishment of thy soul

Majesty33:
Anyway, i hereby agree with u on difference between bush rat and giant house rats and therefore keep consuming bush rats for the nourishment of thy soul

Of course I would..... it's great, you should try it sometimes.

Truvelisback:
What's the difference between this rat 🐀 and the ones at home?

The one at home is a mouse, this one is a rat. There’s a minor difference. Mice are usually smaller, and Rats are bigger and bulkier

FineboyKell:
The one at home is a mouse, this one is a rat. There’s a minor difference. Mouse are usually smaller, and Rats are bigger and bulkier

Lol, bros, I see no difference. The only difference is that the ones in the bush are called bush rats while the ones at home are called house rats.

Truvelisback:
Lol, bros, I see no difference. The only difference is that the ones in the bush are called bush rats while the ones at home are called house rats.

Ok

Its not Rat oga, wetin u sabi

Omo silver spoon born

Teeroyzimma:
lol you guys are disgusting how u go chop rat