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i grew up on a dairy farm. we’d see rabid wild animals, usually raccoons or groundhogs, and I would always get excited as a child because that meant we got to g
by rStar 5y ago
i grew up on a dairy farm. we’d see rabid wild animals, usually raccoons or groundhogs, and I would always get excited as a child because that meant we got to get the guns out and it’s shootin time. luckily we were in an area with very little bat activity. we never had any of our animals (cows, goats, horses) come down with it, afaik.
- jjtheblunt 5y agohow would you know that an animal was rabid?
- rStar 5y agothose wild animals usually stay away from humans unless they had rabies. they act erratic and often have foam coming out their mouth.
- rStar 5y agobut mainly I could always just tell something was off about their behavior and then we wouldn’t take any chances. groundhogs were pests as well, so it’s not like we needed any extra incentive to take them out.