The raccoons I know that live there are transplants from SC....oh yeah, they’re Obama supporters who voted for McCain.
Posted on 05/31/2008 11:32:37 AM PDT by george76
Sixteen people who fed, kissed and held a baby raccoon on Hilton Head Island now are being treated by a physician after the animal tested positive for rabies.
There also are seven more people who might need vaccines to prevent them from contracting the disease
"Someone adopted a baby raccoon and passed it around to everyone they knew and kissed it on the lips," .
"There was a lot of affectionate handling, kissing it and feeding it. Part of that is it was three weeks old, and they inserted fingers into the raccoon's mouth. Saliva is one way that rabies spreads."
Boatwright said the baby raccoon did not show signs of the disease, but got sick Monday and had seizures. On Tuesday, a veterinarian euthanized the animal and sent it to DHEC, where it tested positive for rabies.
In most cases, Boatwright said, wild animals will not show signs of rabies, and people will not experience symptoms if they are exposed to the disease.
"Once you have a symptom, it has reached the brain and it is fatal,"
(Excerpt) Read more at islandpacket.com ...
The raccoons I know that live there are transplants from SC....oh yeah, they’re Obama supporters who voted for McCain.
The more I learn about yankees the less I understand how they won...........
"I'm looking for the man who shot my Paw."
Don’t let your bookkeeper hear you say that.
It had rabbis.
Every night I feed kitten chow to three raccoons, because it has a higher protein content than either cat or dog food. When I set out the food, I call “kitty, kitty” because it sounds more melodious than “here, raccoon” and they don’t know they aren’t kitties.
A scan of the Antworth word list turns up the following 62 words:
That list leaves out raccoonkeeper.accessibleness accessoriness accommodativeness addressees aggressiveness allottee allottees antiinsurrectionally appellee appellees assessee barrenness bookkeeper bookkeepers bookkeeping cheerlessness classlessness committees commonness effortlessness footlessness greenness heedlessness heelless immunosuppressant immunosuppressants immunosuppressive keelless keenness masslessness mississippians needlessness noncommittally nonpossessiveness nonsuccessiveness oppressiveness pennilessness possessiveness prepossessingness rottenness sleeplessness soddenness soullessness speechlessness stubbornness subcommittee subcommittees successfully suddenness sullenness tennesseeans toolless uncommonness unnecessariness unneedfully unsuccessfully unsuccessfulness wheelless whippoorwill whippoorwills woodenness woolliness
B. Clinton:”I did not have sex with that raccoon.”
‘I remember when I was a kid the Disney movie “Rascal” (about a raccoon) came out and I (along with thousands of other kids) begged my parents for a pet raccoon. My dad then advised me that raccoons were widely known are carriers of rabies. He then told me what happens when you catch rabies. I’ve never gotten close to raccoon since.’
That was made into a movie? I loved the book by Sterling North, one of my first juvenile books.
The radio report said it was a fox. Either way,what idiots. I really think some of these dolts just watched too many cartoons as kids. They still think all animals are our friends.
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