Maybe someone here is more up to date in the area of rabies and can correct me.
Rabid animals seldom show the determination described by this account.
Anyone?
Can I get rabies from a squirrel or a mouse?
Squirrels, mice, and other small rodents have only very rarely been found to have rabies, and have never been known to transmit rabies to humans or other animals. In general, postexposure treatment is not recommended after a bite from one of these animals unless it is unusually vicious or appears obviously ill. Groundhogs are the only rodents that are likely to be infected with rabies virus in areas where raccoons are commonly found to be rabid.
Here ya go:
You are correct.
Even if one *did* survive the attack of a rabid animal, their metabolisms are *so* high that the virus would -quickly- incapacitate them and kill them.
They’d be in no shape to be “stalking and attacking” anything else.
The idiots in the local city park killed ‘all the rabid squirrels’ one year due to the complaint of one hysterical woman.
She claimed it was “aggressive and repeatedly ran at her” as she sat on a park bench.
They *all* did that because they were used to people feeding them the peanuts the park *sold* for that very purpose and encouraged the feeding, thereof and the squirrel was frustrated that she had no nuts.
[no entendre’ intended....maybe]
One year, before they banned dogs in the park, a surly squirrel jumped up on my knee, screeching...with my Doberman sitting right there with me.
I’d shove it off...it’d jump back on.
Finally I gave up and bought it some peanuts.
It watched me open the cello package and very gently took them from my hand and ran up a tree.
They have mastered the art of blackmail, apparently.
That’s because squirrels are so small, they rarely survive being bitten by a rabid animal and die in the attack. That’s my hypothesis anyway.