I find this funny, but I shouldn’t.
There has never been a confirmed case of a rabid squirrel. What people think of as rabid is just the squirrel being territorial.
That could be really nasty what with the squirrel population.
It would spread like wildfire.
Not to worry, Glenn Beck is squirrely but I doubt he’s rabid.
I hate squirrels. All squirrels must die.
EXTERMINATE THE SPECIES!!!
I want to drive the fuzzy-tailed little rats before my bicycle, hear the lamentations of their women.
Squirrels can be very confrontational, there’s one of my backyard that I have exchanged expletives with but so far no fight yet. I cut down his favorite tree so he doesn’t come around as much anymore.
Everyone seems to be on edge, lately. Even in the animal kingdom.
We trapped a squirrel in a Have a Heart trap once time and the trap was placed next to the fence that borders our neighbors yard.
They had a big dog at the time and the dog was on one side of the fence barking at the squirrel on the other side of the fence.
The squirrel was in the trap running around as much as it could, grabbing the wires the trap, shaking the trap, and hissing and screeching back at the dog at the top of its little squirrel lungs..
We covered the trap and moved it to calm it down.
That was one really pissed off squirrel.
I don’t want to say it’s rabies but its rabies. Do they still give the shots in the stomach? My worst nightmare.
I was on a golf trip in Noth Myrtle. One of the fellows, a Brit, was a nature watcher. These squirrels were huge, with black and white faces and had ringed tails. The did not run away when you got close to them.
The was a Lyle blond at the halfway house. The Brit said to her, theses squirreles are amazing. So big and interesting I have nver seen anything quite like them. Do they have a name?
The girl drawled in response, “Some of them do.”
One of the few wild animals that have ever attacked me was a squirrel. I was just a kid, my dogs were barking wildly, and I went to see what was going on. There was a squirrel up on the brick wall of the house, cornered where the den came out from the bedrooms. Very agitated, but then two barking dogs had it more or less treed. I tried to get the squirrel to come to me, and it did. Jumped off the wall and latched onto my fingers with it’s teeth. Hung on for several seconds, during the commotion it let go and scampered away.
When asked why they were attacking, one squirrel replied, because people are just nuts.....”
Squirrels almost never get rabies.