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Dennis Collins
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 03:33 am:

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine was spending the weekend at his ancestral farm and on Saturday night he was working at his computer. He felt something land on his pantleg and saw that it was a bat. He tried to brush it off with the back of his hand and it bit him and hung on to the side of his hand. He finally shook it off and stomped on it.

After a few minutes he realized that he should probably have the bat examined and so he stuck it in a plastic back and put it in his freezer. He took it to his doctors office the following Monday.

A couple of days later the lab report came back and the bat had tested positive for rabies.

My friend is now undergoing a series of fifteen shots (I think) to treat the rabies. I guess they don't have to go through the real painful treatments any more.

In my whole life he's the only person I've ever known to be bitten by a rabid animal.

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Harry Simenon
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 03:48 am:

Never heard of any rabies case around here. Not even of a Rabbi with rabies.
I do remember that Ozzy Osbourne once bit the head off a live bat, but the bat died, so the bat did not receieve rabies shots.

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Frank Mazur
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 05:40 am:

Quiz time: Name the character (and book) who shot dead a rabid dog with one shot and impressed the hell out of his children. (I know, too easy.)

Joyce Scarbrough
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 09:18 am:

Atticus Finch in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. I actually saw a description of the movie in a TV listings magazine once (not TV GUIDE) that said, "A lawyer kills a rabid dog in a small Southern town." Yep, that really nails the story.

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Dennis Collins
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 01:49 pm:

I try to walk three miles every morning and one day a couple of years back I encountered a very aggressive racoon that I had to chase off with a stick. I thought that it must have been rabid but when I reported it to the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) they told me that it was some other desease that was affecting a number of animals in the area. Not dangerous to humans.

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Kevin R. Paglia
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 04:55 pm:

They obviously weren't the one cornered by a vicious racoon.

My brother was biten by a Doberman Pincher, which had just recieved it's rabies shots so they dodn't kill the beast (the dog, not my brother) to test. Sucker saw my brother running when we were kids (just gotten off the school bus) and it took off after my brother. Can't fault the owner, he had the dog chained to a loop set in concrete. When the doggie hit the end of his chain, the concrete split and the dog landed on my brother, owner was there a step behind the doggie and puller him off. Back then it was just something that happens, now adays I think we could sue.

Only vicious animal I have ever been bite by was my own Cockatiel who was upset that I hadn't held him for a while. Of course this bird, when his feathers were long enough, would fly from his cage and land on my back while I slept.

A while later I bought my wife a Quacker bird who liked to climb off his cage and cuddle with whoever was on the floor (bird was potty trained, would run back to his cage to do his business and then come back). But if my wife and I were wrestling the bird would attack whoever was on top. And since he was next to the tv and heard us laugh a lot, he picked up laughter as a sound and would laugh as he attacked us.

Kevin

Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 07:15 pm:

I just got the bottom of my house all closed back up, the skirting had come apart by virtue of animals wanting to go under there to sleep/play and whatever they do in the privacy of their dens. Now, I won't have any more raccoons under my house, (YIPPIE!!!) and my animals, cats and dogs won't get attacked whenever they go outside late in the night, before I close up their little doggie door. Raccoons are nasty but cute, and people don't realize the danger they are in whenever they get in the way of one and his objective. They are cute as can be, but be careful, as they will bite, growl, use their huge paws to swipe at you and they will kill dogs. Mostly, and I don't know why, they left the cats alone.

I am very glad that my house will be off limits to them now, as that will most likely make them stay out of my yard also, now that they can't crawl around under the protection of the house. And yes, they do carry and transmit rabies, but so to blackbirds and magpies and field mice.

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Stephen Lodge
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 08:40 pm:

"...and they will kill dogs.

Usually by drowning them.

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Fred Dungan
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 10:15 pm:

Ever hear of a black and tan coon hound? Racoons beware!

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Gloria Marlow
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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 05:04 am:

My 13 year old son loves coon hunting. He wants every kind of hound dog possible. He had a really beautiful walker dog, but when we moved last summer, we gave her away because we were afraid we couldn't have pets at a rental and at that moment, we just couldn't bring her. A few months ago, the boy that had her entered her in a show and she won for the best howl or whatever they call it. She has a beautiful voice.

Of course, I think when he's supposed to be paying attention in school, his mind is on coon hunting and deer hunting and turkey hunting and fishing and everywhere except where it's supposed to be.

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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 05:43 am:

The first time we took our black-and-tan to the lake, her first morning she was up early to get out and do her business with the others. But in seconds Sweet Jessie was under our neighbors cottage, barking like crazy. As it was only 6 a.m., I rushed over to get her. Our neighbors were up and came outside. We're good friends, so we started talking because we hadn't seen each other since the previous summer, and they had never seen Jess. They're dog lovers, and they excused the morning intrusion, writing it off to some old soup they had thrown out next to their cottage. About ten minutes later, while I now had Jess on a leash, out of the corner of my eye I see a coon warily making its way from under the cottage and onto the hill.

Before that, at the same location, I witnessed what Stephen said. The neighbor's dog took after two coons and they took to the lake, then turned around and tried to coax the dog into the water. The dog knew better in this case and stayed on dry land.

Tom Elkins
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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 06:41 am:

Ever been on a real coon hunt? I went on onesuch, Texas style, about 45 years ago. That was one too many for me. Disgusting stuff.

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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 09:02 am:

never been on one, but after my experiences with those little bandit-faced rascals in my valley on the outskirts of Reno NV, I would surely go on one, just to see them get caught or treed, or whatever. They are very destructive and nasty. And this ins't their native habitat any longer as it has been populated with homes well over 40 years and none of them that were here now are old enough to remember that part of their family lineage. I would rather see them re-homed or put somewhere that they can live in their natural state without interfering with people anymore, though, rather than killed. I was told a few years ago that I could get a trap and then dispose of them to another locale, but have you ever seen anyone pick up a cage/trap that has a 40+ pound raccoon in it. They will bite your fingers right off of your hand, if they can get to it.....

Bottom side, is they are cute as all get out, and I really did love to watch them but I sure don't want them around my house any longer. And I am glad that my house is all buttoned up so that they can't get under it anymore and destroy everything that is there, plumbing/heating ducts, electrical wiring, gas tubing, septic tank lines, etc.....

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Dennis Collins
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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 02:14 pm:

In this part of the country they hunt coons at night with packs of Black and Tan's and handguns. It's noisy as hell and seems like it could be a bit dangerous as well.

One of my old dogs killed a racoon who wandered into his kennel. The dog was 1/2 Border Collie, 1/4 Malamute, and 1/4 St. Bernard. He thought it was just a big game and wondered why the coon quit playing after being shaken and thrown about 10 feet in the air a dozen or so times.

He was a beautiful dog; 125 lbs. Long, wavy, all white fur with the St Bernard mask.

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