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| | | | Re: Spiders, snakes, etc. < Reply # 65 on 8/9/2019 10:21 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by 2Xplorations After having a couple of interactions with our local animal control officers I had to look up rabies. We had a neighbor that had their dogs placed under quarantine. Turns out another neighbor had a horse that died from rabies, uncertain how maybe a bat bite of just eating grass with skunk saliva on it. Turns out the number one carrier in Texas are bats. Second are skunks. Don't mess with them or mess with them up they don't have to bite you just slobbering on you can infect you.
| Yeap. The horse was probably bit or scratched by an infected bat. Even in humans the wound can pass undetected. In Midland/Odessa Texas areas rabies is rarely found probably because of the climate; only one bat tested positive in the last 20 years here if I remember correctly. However to the east and south it's much more prevalent with hot beds of it in some areas. Bats should never touch you; their sonar is that good. If one does, that alone is considered atypical behavior; a sign of possible rabies.
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| | | | Re: Spiders, snakes, etc. < Reply # 73 on 12/12/2019 12:56 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Dee Ashley
Mountain lions? I saw a bobcat in my mom's backyard that looked about as big as a mountain lion, but unless it escaped from a zoo (that happened by my mom's too), I've never heard of mountain lions in or around DFW. I did get harassed by a pack of coyotes once. And there was a rabid racoon encounter... I'm just grateful we don't have bears.
| Mountain Lion? In the suburbs? Entirely possible. Judging by it's length and gait pretty sure I had one in the church parking lot in West Chester PA about 15 years ago at 2 AM. This one didn't linger. Solitary and somewhat unpredictable apex predators that you almost never see because they avoid humans. A rabid coon is scary. Especially if it comes after you Think a growling rabid coon was the basis for Gremlins. Glad there's no rabies in W Texas...
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