Ocean Spray had pleaded innocent in February to six felony charges and 72 misdemeanor charges that it released cranberry peelings and acids into municipal sewers and the Nemasket River from 1983 to 1987 despite fines and reprimands from the town.
Mating between the species is impossible, experts assure the squeamish. Cuyes are traditionally to be found scurrying about the dirt floors of Andean kitchens, eating whatever scraps of food and vegetable peelings come their way.