A rabid raccoon on the back porch!

[badger2]

Animal patrol was called and took it out.

 

[Circe]

Sylvania, Ohio, rabid German shepherd came into the yard, had to stay in the car with windows up. Yelled from opposite side for people to stay in the house. It acted very calm, but was frothing. Scary.

Cujo.

 

[ABikerSailor]

you could kill it with a BB gun ( I believe that would kill it?) and I don't think anyone would do anything about that... but that's just what I s ay off the top of my head. Some busy bodies maybe a big deal out of nothing so you just never know...

Depends on the BB gun. If it is 350 fps or lower, it won't do much other than piss it off. If you wanna kill something, you need something that shoots at 400 fps or higher. A good velocity that can be considered lethal for varmints is around 450 fps.

And..............getting a BB gun with that kind of velocity is pretty easy to do nowadays.

 

[katsteve2012]

Mr. Shotgun is the correct answer. Trust me. He'll have a blast, handling the problem! Do remember the "double tap". I learned it from Zombie Land.

Before I convinced my mother to leave Kansas and come back to stay with me in California, she had a home on three acres, and there was a rabid racoon that kept showing up, and once when I went to visit her after my dad passed, it was near where her trash cans were stored

Thankfully my dad's old Remington 870 was still where he kept it loaded.

 

[White 6]

Before I convinced my mother to leave Kansas and come back to stay with me in California, she had a home on three acres, and there was a rabid racoon that kept showing up, and once when I went to visit her after my dad passed, it was near where her trash cans were stored

Thankfully my dad's old Remington 870 was still where he kept it loaded.

Surprisingly, here in TN and KY, where I grew up, I can't remember a real case in years, but surprising how many on here have seen it, as still more common elsewhere.

 

[katsteve2012]

Surprisingly, here in TN and KY, where I grew up, I can't remember a real case in years, but surprising how many on here have seen it, as still more common elsewhere.

Being a native Californian, I had never seen a raccoon until then, but my parents grew up in Kansas, so they were very familiar with isolated cases of racoons being rabid. Especially my mother, because she grew up on a farm.

 

[White 6]

Being a native Californian, I had never seen a raccoon until then, but my parents grew up in Kansas, so they were very familiar with isolated cases of racoons being rabid. Especially my mother, because she grew up on a farm.

Have also heard of rabid skunks and my parents and grandparents were worried about rabid bats.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I came home from squirrel hunting one morning and there was a rabid coon in the front yard.

I shot it with the .22 I had hunted with, bagged it up, set it on the curb, called, and animal control came and picked it up.

No muss, no fuss.

How did you know it was rabid? This is not a criticism. I've never really come across them much one way or another. Here we occasionally get rabid bats but thats about it.

Don't touch the bat, bro!

 

[katsteve2012]

Have also heard of rabid skunks and my parents and grandparents were worried about rabid bats.

Skunks and racoons are the most likely of mammals to carry rabies.
As far as bats, a good friend of mine grew up in Guam, and she is terrified of bats because many carry rabies.

What's really interesting is that bats are considered to be a delicacy in the Philippines and Guam, and she would eat bats.

 

[White 6]

Skunks and racoons are the most likely of mammals to carry rabies.
As far as bats, a good friend of mine grew up in Guam, and she is terrified of bats because many carry rabies.

What's really interesting is that bats are considered to be a delicacy in the Philippines and Guam, and she would eat bats.

Supposedly popular in the wet markets of China if you believe that sort of thing, of cross species disease transfer.

 

[Missourian]

I am a firm believer in the Three S Method of pest removal.

The method is so renowned, it even has a Wikipedia page...

Shoot, shovel, and shut up - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Unkotare]

...

I'm worried about calling Animal Control because they'll try to blame us, ...

Blame you for what?

 

[Circe]

Blame you for what?

Oh, they always try to kick the ball back into your court. See, if they find some way to claim it's my fault then we can't blame them. Best to avoid local government petty functionaries at all costs, IMO.

SSS.

 

[Circe]

I am a firm believer in the Three S Method of pest removal.

The method is so renowned, it even has a Wikipedia page...

Shoot, shovel, and shut up - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Oh, yeah, I was taught that, I bet 35 years ago, by a local here, and he was right.

 

[White 6]

I am a firm believer in the Three S Method of pest removal.

The method is so renowned, it even has a Wikipedia page...

Shoot, shovel, and shut up - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Amazingly useful articles to be found in Wikipedia.

 

[badger2]

Skunks and racoons are the most likely of mammals to carry rabies.
As far as bats, a good friend of mine grew up in Guam, and she is terrified of bats because many carry rabies.

What's really interesting is that bats are considered to be a delicacy in the Philippines and Guam, and she would eat bats.

Possums evolved with humans and are immune to rabies, thus allowing them to vector the virus.

 

[badger2]

West Nile virus can cause myeloencephalitis in alligators, though no autopsy has proven they went nuts before killing a child or elderly woman. They are taken hostage by the Florida DNR, much like a thug doing a bank robbery.

So where is the video of the armed Cracker setting on a wooden tower with a rifle guarding the lakeshore? Would the DNR consider this video pornography if an actual 'gator was shot while attacking someone?

 

[White 6]

Possums evolved with humans and are immune to rabies, thus allowing them to vector the virus.

I didn't know that, but that is apparently correct due to lower body temperature of the 'possum making it hard for the virus to survive. Go figure...

 

[badger2]

Laser fencing is problematic for 'gators, though interesting for the perimeters of domestic property. Nightly, an instant alarm complete with lights and camera may show the kind of animal for initial identification. System switches off for sleeping.

A Cracker economically constructs a system with $10 laser and $5 optoisolators mounted behind a fresnel lens. When the beam(s) is/are broken, the switch is triggered.

The vandal-protected housing will probably cost more than the actual working parts.

 

[badger2]

I didn't know that, but that is apparently correct due to lower body temperature of the 'possum making it hard for the virus to survive. Go figure...

A good question about temp and rhabdoviruses, it is apparently the possum immune system that affords protection. Immunity may have evolved due to possums not hibernating. The virus likely survives on surfaces of its mouth.