We have a lot of river otters here. That's a critter I will never let my dog in the water after.
She's retrieved a couple of nutria before luckily without incident. Though my buddy's Patterdale terrier, a much smaller dog, got torn up by one pretty badly.
No kidding. Otter = 20+ pound water leopard. Not too long ago a grandma and grandson inadvertently got too close to an otter while swimming in a river out here.
Otter put an azz whoopin’ on both of them. Grandma ended up with a hundred or two stitches and the otter swam off with her eyeball.
