Jersey*Girl
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Oh... My... God...
Steely, swear to gosh when I saw the title of this thread I laughed out loud thinking it was another one of you jokes on Jersey or Philly lmao! Swear I was literally prepared to see something like rabid beaver gave infection or some kind of joke :floorlaugh: NOW I see it's not a joke and my gosh it's scary...
Last year a ground hog was out back of my house. I thought it was pregnant but it looked sick. It smelled, so being the intelligent but lacking common sense person that I am, I went inside grabbed a bucket johnson's baby shampoo that I wash my cat with a towel and a sponge - yep, I turned on the hose & washed that ground hog, then I clipped & filed its nails just a little. Then I went inside, got a blanket to wrap it in, and held it in a lawn chair with water & lettuce (didn't actually know what it ate). After about an hour nothing changed, so I called our local dog/animal catcher. Guess what... It was dying (not preggers) bc it had rabies! It was beyond the crazed part & literally on its death bed. The dog catcher searched our whole are to make sure no other wild animals were acting freaky & searched out this groundhog's habitat. I was sent to the emergency room where they thoroughly checked me for any scratches, even though I assured them I wasn't...but rabies is extremely serious so they took the situation serious. I was told that if any scratches or breaks in my skin were present, I'd have needed a shot in my stomach. They put me in a room by myself for the whole night for observation.
Rabies is incredibly serious. Sooo many jokes could be made about a "rabid beaver" but in all seriousness these people could have died.
Steely, thanks for this thread - I must have missed this on the news.
& seriously, you still crack me up!
Filly, your little scenario about going outside is hysterical!
Steely, swear to gosh when I saw the title of this thread I laughed out loud thinking it was another one of you jokes on Jersey or Philly lmao! Swear I was literally prepared to see something like rabid beaver gave infection or some kind of joke :floorlaugh: NOW I see it's not a joke and my gosh it's scary...
Last year a ground hog was out back of my house. I thought it was pregnant but it looked sick. It smelled, so being the intelligent but lacking common sense person that I am, I went inside grabbed a bucket johnson's baby shampoo that I wash my cat with a towel and a sponge - yep, I turned on the hose & washed that ground hog, then I clipped & filed its nails just a little. Then I went inside, got a blanket to wrap it in, and held it in a lawn chair with water & lettuce (didn't actually know what it ate). After about an hour nothing changed, so I called our local dog/animal catcher. Guess what... It was dying (not preggers) bc it had rabies! It was beyond the crazed part & literally on its death bed. The dog catcher searched our whole are to make sure no other wild animals were acting freaky & searched out this groundhog's habitat. I was sent to the emergency room where they thoroughly checked me for any scratches, even though I assured them I wasn't...but rabies is extremely serious so they took the situation serious. I was told that if any scratches or breaks in my skin were present, I'd have needed a shot in my stomach. They put me in a room by myself for the whole night for observation.
Rabies is incredibly serious. Sooo many jokes could be made about a "rabid beaver" but in all seriousness these people could have died.
Steely, thanks for this thread - I must have missed this on the news.
& seriously, you still crack me up!
Filly, your little scenario about going outside is hysterical!
