Did that damn thing take off her arm?
Wow...just wow. Do not know if I could have done that...yet my pistol would have stopped it.
I live way out in the country in rural TN and had one chase me while I was riding my bike once. Good for me I wasn’t trying to climb one of these hills at the time or it might have caught me.
Wow! They are tough little buggers.
They’re nocturnal. Seeing one roaming around in broad daylight is generally a dead-giveaway that its rabid.
Cue “American Woman” by the Guess Who.
That should be her theme song if she goes on any talk shows.
Killing with your bare hands...that’s some next level stuff. I’m gonna guess that girl comes out a little salty.
I was Uber driving a couple of nights ago and went to the Disneyland Hotel. There was a raccoon hanging around the entrance. Apparently he hangs around there and has done so for a couple of years. People (tourists) feed him.
Rabies?
Oh that’s fatal, you don’t want that!
The brain is required for dianosis of rabies, not blood. Coons also carry distemper for your dog, they massacre poultry, and ravage gardens and fruit trees. They have wiped out my chickens, most of which were egg laying pets. My Rat Terrier killed a coon yesterday and two escaped. My old .22 jammed and I used the barrel to prod one as it ran right by me out of a brush pile.
Had one roaming the farm one morning - it couldn’t see and was bumping along the fence to get direction. It went into the barn and I pushed it out with a pitchfork so it wouldn’t get to the animals. It had blood coming from its mouth - scared the liver out of me. I popped a Rubbermaid tub over it. My husband and I slid a piece of plywood under the tub and put a weight on the top and called animal control.
They showed up about 1/2 hour later and by that time it had bitten a hole in the tub. I was standing over the tub with my trusty pitchfork in case it made a jailbreak.
The animal control guy thanked me for trapping it but told me never to try such a thing again. My husband was not particularly thrilled with me, either.
I was worried that if it got off our property that animal control would not be able to find it and it might bite someone’s kid.
They told us that they would euthanize it but would not test it for rabies because it hadn’t bitten or scratched anyone.
Yeah, that was a dumb thing I did. But all’s well that ends well.
They’re not called “Wild” animals without reason.
If there’s one rabid animal in the woods, isn’t there a good possibility that there are more rabid animals out there?
I once drowned a raccoon which had a pellet in its’ brain. It put up a mighty struggle.
The same thing happened to me once, it was a honey badger though...no lie
“Birch, who is a vegetarian”
Gosh, you’d think an animal doctor would have been able to help the poor animal, but, no, probably had a bad credit report so she just kills it.
fun things going on in my state lately:
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/06/14/outdoors/fox-thought-to-have-rabies-attacks-man-in-topsham/?ref=relatedSidebar
this is not too far from whee I used to live in Topsham, before moving up to Banglr last fall
