On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:36 -0400, Dogman wrote:

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:59:45 -0400, "cshenk" wrote:

We have problems with raccoons and bats here, and a variation of
something that hits the squirrels and makes them act rabid

It's probably distemper. Raccoons get it too.

Some of the symptoms of distemper are similar to those of rabies,
especially drooling.

Be thankful for the distemper vaccine; when I was a young boy (before
we had a vaccine for distemper), dogs used to drop like flies from it.
Whole neighborhoods of dogs. Dog owners back then feared distemper far
more than rabies, even though humans can't get it.

And with good reason. There was recently a seizure of a number of
greyhounds and other sighthounds and sighthound mixes in Texas, and
three of the dogs veered off the road to recovery and succumbed to
distemper.