Posted on 09/17/2015 7:01:31 PM PDT by EinNYC
No, I wasn’t born yet, but a great-great aunt of mine drowned in a well when she was 3 or 4...late 1800s.
More than just rabies.
http://www.austinpug.org/4-common-infectious-diseases-spread-by-raccoons/
I don’t consider them ‘cute’ anymore. I consider them dangerous, and their ‘droppings’ are disease laden.
West coast studies showed that 95% of road kill coons were disease infected.
Oh that strange condensation on my computer.
Bless these dogs. What a lovey story.
Maybe the owner needs to see this as a teaching moment.
These dogs may last longer if they weren’t allowed to roam like this, unsupervised. I’m speaking of the peg legged Basset Hound in particular.Maybe she’s too old for that kind of routine.
Wait a minute! Bassett Hound? Why didn’t she start baying at the Sun and the Moon?
This old girl may have never needed to howl for assistance.
She’s like the average American, a victim of her own domestication.
Here’s a choice for a dog owner when your pet has Gypsy Fever: Microchip with I.D., I think those chips can show up on a monitor.
Both my cats, even though they are indoors-only, are microchipped. Because you never know when there could be an event whereby they find themselves outside. I would want to know that they could find their way home, and microchips are important toward that goal.
Good doggy
When my dogs tangled with the rabid coon family, they all had to get boosters that very day.
I was not so lucky.
Full course of shots.
Really sucked.
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