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Pit bulls totally upstaged by cute little fox
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Locking jaws of d00m: Authorities in Arizona say a jogger attacked by a rabid fox ran a mile with the animal's jaws clamped on her arm and then drove herself to a hospital. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...6wjHAD948VDVG0 -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Pit bulls totally upstaged by cute little fox
Melinda Shore wrote:
[] Locking jaws of d00m: Authorities in Arizona say a jogger attacked by a rabid fox ran a mile with the animal's jaws clamped on her arm and then drove herself to a hospital. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...6wjHAD948VDVG0 She's a braver girl than I. I'd have done whatever was necessary to get the damned thing off of me, and just sucked it up and taken the shots. And possibly have left behind an animal that would attack somebody else. Which it ended up doing anyways, so I guess it's a wash. I had an orphan possum bite me on the inside of the upper arm and refuse to let go (nice pet, eh?). I clamped her between my arm and my body and just kept squeezing until she lost her air and had to open her mouth to breath. She left a bruise the size and color of a plum, with a couple of pretty deep scratches. Luck was on my side, though, because I did not report the incident to my parents. We'd had her a couple of months by then and I thought that if she had, I don't know, prenatal rabies or something like that, she'd have been showing symptoms by then. Only, even healthy possums are so stupid and nasty and weird, who even knows what a rabid possum might act like? All I knew was that I didn't want a baby I'd bottle-fed euthanized in order to inspect her brain. |
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On Nov 6, 6:55*pm, Kathleen wrote:
All I knew was that I didn't want a baby I'd bottle-fed euthanized in order to inspect her brain. My understanding is that possums are a dead-end species. They can get rabies (though they aren't very susceptible), but they cannot pass it on. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther) |
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