Rabies in PA.

["Karen J. Zelinsky" <kjz2@juno.com>]

In Central PA too!!  Ugh!
I've had a rabid possum come knocking at my front door!  Called the
farmer's wife next door and had her shoot the poor thing.  Ugh!  Over the
years, several possums and raccoons have popped up doing strange things
during the day.  Hint, hint.  Last year there was a huge raccoon holed-up
in my barn's trash basket under lots of plastic and barbed wire and
finally flushed THAT one out and, once again, neighbors to the rescue! 
Yes, yes, yes.... get those rabies shots for your horses!!!!!!

Karen in PA
**********************

I don't know about others, but we have seen it here in PA also. We have a
lot of racoons and possums, and the coons especially seem a problem. We
just
had a case 2 weeks ago in my neighborhood of a rabid coon coming from the
woods and attacking 3 family dogs!

When they are rabid, they'll attack anything, and unfortunately, I have
curious George's for horses. So they all get vaccinated! In a case like
that, it's easy for them to be exposed to a bite, those rabbid racoons
will
go right after whatever they focus on. I killed one in my driveway 2
years
ago with an ax after it came after me and Mike and our cat! I hated to
have
to do that, I hate killing anything, but I'm enough of a survivalist to
know
when it's between them and me!


Helga Loncosky


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