Oh, good! I thought you might be interested. If you walk armed and aware you should be fine since a sick animal is easy to spot. Any rabies is bad but thank God it’s not rampant.
Here in the MO Ozarks, it’s conventional wisdom that ANY raccoon out in the daytime is rabid.
Hub and I were driving on a way back dirt road and saw one. It did not move away for the car. We reported it when we got back, but didn’t have a weapon in the car, so....