Are ground hogs particularly susceptible to rabies? We have all sorts of wild animals around here. Skunks, possums, ground hogs, raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and deer to name just a few off the top of my head.
It’s the only rabid one I’ve seen in my life, and I’ve lived ‘Rural’ for almost 40 years, now.
Snakes, though? I run the other way! *SHUDDER*
Small Rodents and Other Wild Animals
Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans.
From 1990 through 1996, in areas of the country where raccoon rabies was enzootic, woodchucks (groundhogs) accounted for 93% of the 371 cases of rabies among rodents reported to CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html