I don’t know nuthin’.
SQUIRREL! (THose at teh BEC will know what I’m talkin about! : )
“Doctors often advise bite victims not to undergo post-bite rabies treatments, unless the squirrel attacked for no apparent reason.”
You gotta be kidding me, “unless the squirrel attacked for no apparent reason”?
What the heck would be “apparent reasons” for squirrel attacks?
Did the child cut in front of the squirrel and got on the swing out of turn?
Okay... What apparent reason was there for this squirrel to attack a little boy on a swing?
Idiots.
I hope that kid gets rabies shots. Even though it’s incredibly rare for squirrels to transmit rabies, the behavior of that particular squirrel is incredibly rare too, and in a way that’s consistent with rabies. Sometimes squirrels will jump on you if they have reason to think you have a nut for them (has happened to me, but with a squirrel I regularly gave peanuts to), but to keep hanging on and biting a screaming child AND then stick around to jump the grown man who arrives to help??? That’s really deranged behavior for a squirrel.
Squirrel probably suffering from post trematic stress from being a spy in Iran.
"Enemy subdued!"“...(attacking) squirrel...managed to escape.”
These little creatures sometimes have a condition akin to CJD, where they develop dimentia and their brains turn into a tangled mass of neurons. Cows get something similiar called Mad Cow Disease. It is all caused by prions, or folded protein.
Unfortunately people can get it by eating squirrel brains. In parts of the south this is considered a delicacy and is a deadly habit.
I was bitten by a squirrel that had fallen down the chimney, when I chased it around the house and finally caught it. They are hard to catch, I darn near had to use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch on it. That thing was dynamite!
“He was treated and released at a local Centra Care for his injuries.”
The Squirrel?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f5d_1172741350
Our cat used to bring in squirrels until we removed the dog door after our dogs passed away. I open our doors and chaise them around the house until they find the door and run outside. No matter how often I have cornered one of them they have never attacked but will run past you. If it were my son I would go with rabies shots.
Squirrels Go On Attack At South Bay Park
September 30, 2006
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- An aggressive squirrel pounced on a 4-year-old boy in an attack last week in Cuesta Park in Mountain View, Calif. The attack happened as the boy's mother unwrapped a muffin during a picnic.
The boy had to get rabies shot after the attack. He is still getting the shots.
The attack is not the first one reported at the park. Mountain View Community Services Director David Muela said that as many as six people have been bitten or scratched by squirrels since May, and that the attacks have become more ferocious in the last month.
Park Rangers spent Saturday patrolling the park. The city is trying to make sure people don't bring food into the children's play area at the park. "I think it's our fault, because we made them aggressive," Carmen Perez of Palo Alto said. "Now it's dangerous and we have to do something."
Typical Bay Area Liberal attitude, too. "It's our fault. We caused them to behave this way toward us. We've lost the respect of the squirrel community." Now where have I heard that before?
rats/fuzzy tails.....good pr
Yeah, because they are unlikely to survive an encounter with a rabid skunk or a rabid raccoon, the principle "vectors" in the transmission of the disease. So not many squirrels out there are carriers. But when one does survive, he is rabid and will most certainly pass it on to you if he bites you.
Man, I can't believe they're not going to give this kid his shots. If he were my kid, I think I'd insist on it, unless children that age can't tolerate the shots for some reason.