I just checked—474 cases statewide last year, with nearly 300 of those raccoons. We’ve got 100 counties—much smaller than yours, I’m sure! Our county only had one case, so media hype strikes again. Still...
I have many caution me..I listen to them and am careful..but I do still go out with the raccoons briefly..
The scrawny coyote I saw twice alarmed me so I quit going out when the raccoons were on the patio for awhile after I glimpsed him. I feared the coyote might have rabies..
I live in town but have a wooded ravine behind me that curves through the neighborhood and the lake is a short distance away so I get critters. The raccoons came first for leftover sunflower seed from birdfeeding..I started putting out extra..and now I put out some catfood if I see them out there..
The fox doesn’t eat anything but peanuts..She got the morning squirrel peanuts this morning.No youngsters today.