I don’t think rabies treatment now days is as bad as it used to be, but nothing is pleasant about dog bites and/or infections. Keep kids close when walking in parks. Also I’ve never been approached by a coyote when I’m with Mr Smith and Wesson at least none that lived.
I have been thru post exposure rabies treatment. It is a somewhat drawn out process of injections over weeks. But the cost was the most painful of all.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/ruger-coyote-special-380-lcp/
Last February [2010], Texas Governor Rick Perry went for a jog with his dog. At some point, Perry shot and killed a coyote with his laser-sighted Sturm, Ruger & Co. LCP .380. Firing hollow points, apparently. In defense of his dog, also apparently.
Just why Perry’s two security guys (on the taxpayer’s dime) weren’t around to shoot the coyote on the Governor’s behalf, and what distance/threat level was involved, remains a mystery.
But the story as told fits the “don’t mess with Texas” meme. So it remains as told. And Perry isn’t the only one cashing-in on the increasingly mythical encounter. Sturm, Ruger & Co. have created a $340 laser-less “Coyote Special” to commemorate the Governor’s pest control pistol.