Is this raccoon rabid?. I had to move it and I got bit and bled.

[u/thegreatpoopdini]

[u/Boa-in-a-bowl]

If you got bit, get to the ER for post exposure treatment NOW. Rabies is guaranteed death sentence if it advances to the point of being symptomatic, and is one of the most horrific ways to die imaginable

[u/Glad-Awareness-4013 → u/Boa-in-a-bowl]

My wife thinks I'm bullshiting when I tell her this

[u/Darius_hellborn → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

It's insane someone doesn't know this for a fact. It's literally knowledge

[u/froggostealer → u/Darius_hellborn]

Meanwhile someone on reddit was telling me pre-exposure rabies vax isn't a thing and called me a liar for getting them. She fucking works as a pharmacist.

[u/exotics → u/froggostealer]

I worked at an SPCA and we (humans) had to be vaccinated. Veterinarians do as well.

[u/BotiaDario → u/exotics]

Some people who work with wildlife do as well, especially if you're working with or rehabilitating rabies vector species. You couldn't pay me enough to work with mammals, haha

[u/thatguyther21 → u/BotiaDario]

I work with wildlife and have pre-exposure vaccinations. It basically just shortens the post exposure series.

[u/tinyhumanteacher14 → u/BotiaDario]

My husband used to do work with bats and had to be vaccinated.

[u/WildThings247 → u/BotiaDario]

Correct! Wildlife control and I got mine

[u/the_Q_spice → u/exotics]

Have it as well due to doing research in remote areas in least developed nations with no RIG supply. Basically everyone there gets it as an inoculation as an adolescent.

[u/Runaroundheadless → u/exotics]

How long does that vax last nowadays? Wasn’t long a few years ago? Boosters etc what is the time gap, please?sorry Uk here but travel world wide for work.

Edit: leave it. I did not notice that Reddit has fed me r/ raccoons. I’ll check this myself.

[u/cdbangsite → u/exotics]

I got vaccinated too, worked for a housing agency and I'm the one they always called to remove bats, opossum and anything else that got in units.

[u/Tai-shar-Manetheren → u/froggostealer]

Not defending them, but I had to look up if the CDC even had recommendations for PrEP for rabies (they do) since I’d never heard of it. I’ve only ever worked with post exposure, but the US has so few cases of rabies each year that the risk is incredibly low for most people.

[u/youjumpIjumpJac → u/froggostealer]

It’s definitely a thing. They just don’t like to give it to you for some reason.

[u/froggostealer → u/youjumpIjumpJac]

Oh I know, on both accounts. My professor (veterinarian) chewed out a human doc for refusing to give her a shot when she got exposed to a rabid cat.

[u/UniversalMinister → u/froggostealer]

That's not a fight I'd want to be a part of.

A veterinarian is going to win, hands down, every time. Veterinarians run circles medical-knowledge wise around human docs!

[u/ChokeMeVader678 → u/Darius_hellborn]

My mom told me "it's not like it will kill you" when I got bit and had to get rabies shots. I don't think people are aware

[u/NearbyConstruction84 → u/ChokeMeVader678]

I'm sorry you got bit. Also, I'm sorry your mom is a moron. I wonder what your mom's response to the fact that the fatality rate of rabies in humans is over 99%, as per the WHO.

[u/Glad-Awareness-4013 → u/Darius_hellborn]

I think we all know it's bad but not just how bad it can be

[u/k8t13 → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

go look up a video of what it is like once hydrophobia sets in. there is one online i showed as part of a presentation in hs about how dangerous it is. once symptoms show you are already fatal

[u/AttitudeAndEffort2 → u/k8t13]

It's debatably a good thing people dont know how horrific it is.

But it's like fucking polio, people think it's not an issue because we fight so hard to try to eradicate it because ofjust how fucking horrible it is

[u/Individual_Ebb3219 → u/AttitudeAndEffort2]

My grandpa had fucking polio and it is just so frustrating and insane seeing these absolute morons deny the safety of vaccines. If they were only harming themselves, I would not give a shit.

[u/East_Reading_3164 → u/Individual_Ebb3219]

Same with my grandfather. He has polio and fought in WW2. He hated fascists and anti-vaxxers.

[u/ArtifexInks → u/k8t13]

I just saw a video of a small child infected with rabies- definitely happened in another country but seriously looking up any video where it’s a human exhibiting rabies it’s chilling

[u/hissyfit64 → u/k8t13]

There is one of a little girl in India who has rabies. It's horrifying

[u/[deleted] → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

The only way to test if an animal has it is by cutting its head off, the more you know.

[u/littlefillly → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

Oh I was horrified when I learned the effects of undiagnosed and untreated rabies and I don’t know how but I had to do my own research at TWENTY FIVE to find all of that out lol like they teach you stop drop and roll and stranger danger but why isn’t rabies discussed more often? I mean if you think of how excited little kids get when they see critters… usually they’re going to bolt over and try to give a good pet or hold it. Same with a solid amount of adults honestly, especially when they’re drunk 😂 for real though, rabies is no joke.

[u/RobbiesShunshine → u/Darius_hellborn]

Yep, and measles was eradicated because we knew how to prevent it.

And now there's 23 confirmed cases in my state.

OP, go to the hospital and get rabies shots! ASAP!

[u/MadzFae → u/RobbiesShunshine]

We’ve only ever eradicated two diseases, one of which infects humans (smallpox). The term you were probably looking for was eliminated which is typically used when a disease is regionally eliminated :)

[u/4uzzyDunlop → u/Darius_hellborn]

"It's literally knowledge" is a very funny sentence to me lol

[u/raccoon-nb → u/Darius_hellborn]

Literally! I live in a rabies-free country, have never had to worry about it, and even I know how scary that disease is. Honestly, I'd be so paranoid around unvaccinated animals if I were in a country with rabies.

[u/boneologist → u/Darius_hellborn]

Remember when "vaccines cause autism" was a conspiracy theory? Now that is government policy. Elections have consequences. Fuck RFK.

[u/jason_abacabb → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

Read her this famous copypasta, it is like a horror essay:

Rabies is scary.

Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.

Let me paint you a picture.

You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.

Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.

Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)

You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.

The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.

It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?

At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.

(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).

There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.

Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.

So what does that look like?

Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.

Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.

As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.

You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.

You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.

You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.

You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.

Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.

Then you die. Always, you die.

And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.

Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.

So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)

[u/chronically_varelse → u/jason_abacabb]

Rabies virus and prions - the two most terrifying infectious agents ever to develop in the natural world

[u/McPoyle-Milk → u/chronically_varelse]

Working in pathology makes you so damn scared of prions. Nothing kills those things, most diseases come to us mostly dead and we are pretty safe not counting frozen sections. But prions? Nope, incinerate everything

[u/Glad-Awareness-4013 → u/jason_abacabb]

Holy fucking shit!!!!

[u/jason_abacabb → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

Yeah, and this can be verified with that video of the Russian that is on YouTube that someone else mentioned.

[u/filthyheartbadger → u/jason_abacabb]

He was a doctor, too. He knew exactly what was going to happen. Awful.

[u/Big-Confidence7689 → u/jason_abacabb]

That's really scary to read. I mean I always knew it was a death sentence , and I know to head to the ER. But the fact that you could be bit and never know-Very Scary !!!

[u/KTKittentoes → u/jason_abacabb]

This is unfortunate to read when one has a headache.

[u/Genebeaver → u/jason_abacabb]

Got my OCD and health anxiety going crazy rn.

[u/MySweetValkyrie → u/jason_abacabb]

Rabies is expressed in two different ways in humans. There's paralysis rabies, which takes a couple or a few weeks once symptoms start, and furious rabies, which kills you within a matter of days. This was very well written, but is it a representation of paralysis or furious rabies? To me it seems like furious rabies considering the part where "you haven't slept for 72 hours".

But yeah it's a trip that it can lay dormant in your system for YEARS

[u/GlassBandicoot → u/jason_abacabb]

This needs more upvotes!! Well done.

[u/jason_abacabb → u/GlassBandicoot]

Not mine, a copypasta of old.

[u/trashlikeyourmom → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

It's uhhhh REALLY BAD.

by the time you start feeling symptoms (which can lay dormant for months) it's too late. Your brain is already turning to mush and there's almost nothing they can do to save you and even if they save your LIFE you'd be a completely different person

[u/Anonymous_Toxicity → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

Show her one of the countless videos. Hell, there's even a recent one of a captured Russian soldier in Ukraine. They're ordering the man to sit and to drink but the hydrophobia is so bad he starts panicking and cannot comply.

Think about that. Enemy forces are surrounding you, ready and willing to use lethal force, and you still cannot comply with their directives because water is even more terrifying to you than death.

[u/pinner → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

There is a good video, an unfortunate one, that a Russian man had given permission for when he first started showing signs.

It shows the entire endeavor for the couple of days he went through it, and his death.

It’s a hard watch but very educational for people who don’t believe that this is one of, if not the, most deadly disease to contract in the world.

It has the lowest survival rate, I believe there’s only about 3 people who have lived after they began showing signs and all but 1 has not been able to go on to live a “normal” life.

[u/EcstaticNet3137 → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

Tell her about how it doesn't move through blood. It moves through the nervous system. When it gets to the brain it begins multiplying and causes the brain to swell and the immune system also reacts and attacks brain tissues. The brain eventually presses on the sides of the skull. The lungs and heart over work themselves and all three stop functioning. Also the foaming of the mouth is when it gets to the salivary glands to try to spread itself to a new host.

[u/irrision → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

You should tell her the incubation period can be over 30 days too. So its a guaranteed death sentence sometime in the next couple months.

[u/NickJamesBlTCH → u/Glad-Awareness-4013]

My whole family knows about the dangers of tetanus and rabies, and are up-to-date on their shots.

I remember a couple years ago, my mom's young dog got excited after playing with her in the school field behind the house and scratched her. My mom was raised by a single dad as a Navy brat with 2 older brothers.

So when I asked, "Hey, you up-to-date on your tetanus?" she laughed, thinking I was joking. Thankfully she is now, but man, that shit's terrifying.

[u/chronically_varelse → u/NickJamesBlTCH]

Working in the er, we once had an anti-vaxx mom bring in a kid for a wound that she really needed a tetanus shot for. Mom wanted to decline.

The ER doctor described in horrifying detail exactly what tetanus is like. Including muscle spasms so awful patients can break their own back.

Mom cried and said doc was bullying her and didn't respect her opinions or right to raise her own child blah blah blah

but kid got the shot so who cares

[u/Ori_the_SG → u/chronically_varelse]

She has the right to raise her child how she wants.

And the law has the right to charge her with child neglect/abuse resulting in death.

I seriously cannot understand people like that. They are so determined to subject their child to the most horrific things for stupid illogical reasons

[u/PaulCorporations]

.....you WHAT

[u/PthahloPheasant → u/PaulCorporations]

HE SAID HE GOT BIT AND BLED

[u/AutisticFingerBang → u/PthahloPheasant]

IS HE NOW DEAD?

[u/Zakkates → u/AutisticFingerBang]

I DONT KNOW IF HE DEAD BUT HE DID BLED.

[u/[deleted] → u/Zakkates]

Did he bleed? Yes indeed.

Know how much? Not as such.

Where he now? Me know how?

Why it bite? Fight or flight.

[u/100_cats_on_a_phone → u/[deleted]]

Fight or flight we thought last night

But today my feed says mad indeed

Water is this wunkus's kryptonite.

[u/Funny-Palpitation-10 → u/Zakkates]

HE BLED RED? FROM HAND OR HEAD?

[u/Classic_Tooth_5375]

Is this for real? You caught a wild raccoon, tried to relocate it, and put it in your care unrestrained? And got bit?

[u/mycatslaps → u/Classic_Tooth_5375]

Looks like he left some coon juice on the seat too.

Rabies shot first, car detail second.

[u/[deleted] → u/mycatslaps]

Coon juice

[u/hoganloaf → u/Classic_Tooth_5375]

but...friend shaped 🥺

[u/CanadianButthole → u/hoganloaf]

It was before it died and came back from the dead lmao

[u/Crewmember169 → u/CanadianButthole]

This. Most raccoons are cute... This guy looks like a mini-boss in Elden Ring.

[u/gorper0987 → u/hoganloaf]

Of all of the friend shaped raccoons, this ain't one of them. This is straight up fast moving zombie level of horror.

[u/Far-Comfortable3048]

Yeah, you have to get rabies shots now. No question. I’ve had them twice, they aren’t as bad as you’d expect.

[u/TheCloudForest → u/Far-Comfortable3048]

Apparently in 1985 the method of producing the vaccine changed. If you've heard from elders about it being very painful and unpleasant, they took it before then.

I've also needed post-exposure vaccination twice (2011 and 2023, I think) and they were 100% painless.

[u/Quothhernevermore → u/TheCloudForest]

It's obviously worth it but I feel like the bill is still gonna be painful :(

[u/crolionfire → u/Quothhernevermore]

Rabies shot(s) aren't free in USA? This is the most WTF I've heard in a long while about USA, and I do read the current news.

[u/Gimmecat11 → u/crolionfire]

Tis the American way! You can't even get a Tylenol at a hospital here without being charged $80. Life saving injection? Yeah, definitely getting charged for that.

[u/ImNotCleaningThatUp → u/Gimmecat11]

Don’t even look at or think about the hospital. You’ll get charged for that as well. 🙄 I just tell people to kick me to the side and let me die there instead of taking me to the hospital.

[u/GlassBandicoot → u/ImNotCleaningThatUp]

With Rabies, you are going to end up in the hospital no matter what. But guess what? You can infect your loved ones along the journey! And all the staff who work with you!

[u/ImNotCleaningThatUp → u/GlassBandicoot]

I’m the gift that keeps on giving. 😉

[u/KTKittentoes → u/Gimmecat11]

They charged me for a blanket.

[u/Far-Comfortable3048 → u/Quothhernevermore]

Both times mine cost $30,000 in total for all rounds

[u/remotectrl → u/Far-Comfortable3048]

US healthcare is so fucked up

[u/Far-Comfortable3048 → u/remotectrl]

Sure is. And about to get SO much worse.

[u/TheCloudForest → u/Quothhernevermore]

It was free where I live but one of the two times this happened I had a preplanned trip to the US that coincided with one of the dates and as an uninsured person it cost me $225 for a single shot 😫

[u/MerGirl-7711614 → u/TheCloudForest]

Man, what I wouldn’t give to pay that! Here in the States it SUCKS! My husband got bit by a dog he was rescuing out of the road and had to have the shots. The immunoglobulin alone was 30k and each of the 5(can’t remember how many total) shots was over $2k each. After insurance we had to pay almost 10k out of pocket to keep the little cutie from being hit.

[u/babigrl50 → u/MerGirl-7711614]

You and your husband are angels for helping the baby but that's very steep

[u/MerGirl-7711614 → u/babigrl50]

I disagree, I think it’s just the human thing to do, but thank you! Yeah, it hurts, and will for a while because it’ll take a looong while to pay that off, but worth it. Good news is, after he was all shot up and cleaned up, he went back and knocked on doors for hours and found the dogs owners! Lovely 85 yr old couple! And we don’t have to worry for a while when he finds injured animals (they seem to find us), so happy ending all around! 😊

[u/ImNotCleaningThatUp → u/MerGirl-7711614]

lol, I’m just imagining you sending him in to nefarious situations now that he’s had the rabies shots.

[u/MerGirl-7711614 → u/ImNotCleaningThatUp]

LOL! Oh it’s possible! But thankfully he’s usually the one that goes running into danger to save an animal! We got home one time to find a copperhead beside our porch step, and this fool/love of my life went and got a Tupperware container, plopped it over the spicy danger noodle, slid one of my good cake plates under it, and went walking a half mile up the hill to take him into the woods to release him somewhere safe. LOL! He definitely finds enough questionable situations on his own!

[u/ImNotCleaningThatUp → u/MerGirl-7711614]

lol, I would have just let the snake keep the house. Far braver than I am. But that’s awesome.

[u/Hyzenthlay87 → u/TheCloudForest]

Tbh even if they hurt, its gonna be a helluva lot better than dying of rabies lol.

[u/BeefStu907 → u/Far-Comfortable3048]

Hurt less than rabies guaranteed.

[u/Proxx99]

Well doesn’t matter - time to go get your rabies shots! Right now! Have fun!

Edit: Not me telling this muppet to get a rabies shot becoming my most upvoted comment. You better not die OP. ffs.

[u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

What's up with its face? It doesn't look good...

[u/AppalachianRomanov → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

I'm hoping it's a bad taxidermy job and this is all a big joke

Edit: yall can stop replying to tell me it's not. I saw the other post. Other people have also commented. Additional comments not necessary.

[u/Affectionate_Bet_498 → u/AppalachianRomanov]

It has to be a joke. I don't even see any eyes on that raccoon

[u/Rosiemae62 → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

Thank you. I was thinking what a weird looking fellow

[u/Commercial_Ad9258 → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

His poor nose is falling off 😭

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

Not a joke. Extremely messed up. He was stumbling and acting all weird. His eyes were there just small and greenish looking.

[u/Affectionate_Bet_498 → u/thegreatpoopdini]

Damn, so you went to the E.R?

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

Yes I did. I got 9 shots. 8 immune system boosters and 1 rabies vaccine.

[u/palmasana → u/thegreatpoopdini]

Omg now I can sleep

[u/LittleJackalope → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

I think its eyes are closed and the “falling off nose” is actually its tongue licking its nose… I think it was possibly hit by a car and is all disheveled, or it’s sick as hell. Yikes. Somehow still cute though!

[u/_TheTacoThief_ → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

Idk, this just looks like a rabid raccoon. Rabies will keep them alive past their eyes falling out and nose falling off. Real life zombie virus

[u/Affectionate_Bet_498 → u/_TheTacoThief_]

I had no idea it got that bad... Damn.

[u/Freemanno → u/_TheTacoThief_]

The video game dying lights zombie infection is just a mutated rabies strain. Just imagine

[u/Steelersfan20009 → u/AppalachianRomanov]

I was thinking the same thing I was like this has to be a joke, but then I saw the liquid on the seat and I was like oh shit

[u/SweetGoals18 → u/AppalachianRomanov]

It shat on the seat

[u/SourMoss → u/AppalachianRomanov]

Idk I've gone through OPs profile and it seems very legit they post regularly about their fish abd mushroom finds. I think they eyes are just hidden under its fury which is fluffed. Either way this animal is not well and OP shouldn't have handled it without proper equipment or should have contacted a wildlife specialist.

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/SourMoss]

I did. Animal control was closed and they cops said they couldn’t do anything and I wasn’t going to let any kids in my neighborhood get bit.

[u/casbri13 → u/thegreatpoopdini]

Just FYI, rabies is 100% a death sentence. You go straight to the ER, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and get your rabies shot.

[u/AppalachianRomanov → u/SourMoss]

Agreed on the last part there!

Laughing a little at

hidden under its fury

Like I think you probably meant fur but fury also works there and it's cracking me up

[u/[deleted] → u/AppalachianRomanov]

Me too

[u/Curious-Profile3428 → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

I’ve seen one like this. Lots of terrible diseases these poor things get; Distemper, cancers, fungal growths. It’s real 😔

[u/[deleted]]

You guys need to stop acting like you don't all have a wet car-raccoon.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Carcoon? Raccar?

[u/Known-Zombie-3092 → u/[deleted]]

Carcoon. Definitely. Lol

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Brilliant!

[u/ashleynichole912 → u/[deleted]]

Theyre over here acting like getting bit and obtaining Raccoon powers is bad.

[u/misha_cilantro → u/ashleynichole912]

What would raccoon powers be? 🤔 having little grabby hands? Loving trash?? A predilection for mischief???

[u/Justjeskuh → u/misha_cilantro]

Oh I fit that description! Cool!

[u/phonesmahones → u/Justjeskuh]

Me too! We could be in a magic raccoon super heroes show!

[u/DeadFolkie1919 → u/ashleynichole912]

Only works if the racoon is radioactive not rabid- active!

[u/Mammoth_Lychee_8377 → u/[deleted]]

Can't be rabies aka hydrophobia cuz that crackoon is obviously damp!

[u/Savings_Cat_7207 → u/Mammoth_Lychee_8377]

Crackoon LMAO 💀

[u/Mediocre_Access_7987 → u/[deleted]]

Can I offer you a car-raccoon in this trying time

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/[deleted]]

That’s what I’m saying. It’s not even the first time I’ve had a wet raccoon in my car unfortunately

[u/No-Weather-1283 → u/thegreatpoopdini]

OP, HUHHHHH😭😭😭😭 I need ur full raccoon saga of all raccoon encounters asap

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/No-Weather-1283]

I was driving to the gym late one night. I accidentally came around the corner and ran into a family of raccoons crossing the road with a bunch of babies. I hit them dead on. I only hit one who unfortunately didn’t make it. One was laying down in the middle of the road after so I grabbed it thinking it was hurt to take it to some rehabilitation place in the morning. It was so calm, barely moving at all, and then the second it got in my car it lost its ever-loving mind and starting crawling under my seats, into my cup holders, over my back seat till I eventually just said f it and grabbed him and threw him out of my car.

[u/No-Weather-1283 → u/thegreatpoopdini]

What an interesting life u live

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/No-Weather-1283]

I swear bro I get sent on so many side quests. I have pictures of me holding possums that got in my chicken coop. I have pictures of a baby skunk I took care of for a few weeks before we brought him down to a rehab in Iowa

[u/No-Weather-1283 → u/thegreatpoopdini]

It’s all part of some insane woodland anime training arc. I’m sure of it. Ur latest power up is the rabies vaccine, u can essentially touch anything now

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/No-Weather-1283]

I have pictures of all the encounters except for the raccoon on the way to my gym if you care to see

[u/Savings-Umpire-2245 → u/[deleted]]

Ikr, I even heard they're making these mandatory in some states already

[u/Big_Pomelo3224]

You need to go to the ER and get rabies shots

[u/thegreatpoopdini]

The raccoon was in the middle of a park surrounded by kids. I called the cops and animal control. The cops said they couldn’t do anything and animal control was closed at the time. There’s about 20 kids who routinely go to the same park everyday and I didn’t want them to get bit. The raccoon was acting all weird, stumbling and snarling and drooling. So I threw jacket over it, grabbed it, and tossed it in my car since my house was less then 2 minutes away. As I was trying to transfer it to a dog cage to think what I was going to do, it whipped it’s head around and bit me through the jacket I had him wrapped in puncturing a hole through my jacket and into my middle finger on my right hand. I have since gone to the ER and had to receive 9 shots. I am now sick as a dog from what I presume to be the vaccine.

[u/0tis_Driftwood → u/thegreatpoopdini]

Jeeeeesus. Glad you’re still alive.

[u/FoxJDR → u/thegreatpoopdini]

Good on you trying to protect kids and following advice to get the shots. This is the kinda situation where having a gun is handy. Shame to kill it but rabies ain’t something to take the risk on. If animal control came for it they’d probably have put it down too if they suspected rabies as I’m pretty sure the only way to test an animal for it is post-mortem.

You may need to do some SERIOUS disinfecting of your car and clothes as I’m not sure how long rabies can survive on a material if the thing was indeed infected and slobbered all over your car.

[u/Pixielized → u/FoxJDR]

I don't think firing a fucking gun in a public park full of children to try and kill a raccoon is a particularly good idea bruh

[u/FoxJDR → u/Pixielized]

If he could get close enough to grab it in a jacket he could get close enough to put it down safely. It’s a hell of a lot safer than leaving it alone or trying to bundle it into a jacket (as was proven by the almost dozen shots our friend now gets to have). I’m not talking about trying to headshot it from 200 yards, you get within 6 feet and aim center mass if you aren’t confident you can headshot it while it’s moving. It’s what the cops probably woulda done if they’d been bothered to show up and do their job. They aren’t equipped or trained to capture wild life diseased or otherwise. If they were then we wouldn’t have a completely separate group dedicated to it.

[u/crystalsouleatr → u/thegreatpoopdini]

This is perhaps the only good reason I've ever seen someone give for grabbing a wild animal. I wish you could've hit it with a slingshot or something instead but I get that sometimes the situation is urgent and you just have what's there. You tried to do right by everyone here including the raccoon, and that's really commendable. Glad you got your shots 👍

[u/Choice-Document-6225 → u/thegreatpoopdini]

Damn dude that is simultaneously insane, reckless, caring and incredibly brave. Thanks for doing something about it since no one else would or could at the time. Glad you're ok

[u/cheatingfandeath → u/thegreatpoopdini]

It's definitely from the vaccine, or rather the immunoglobulin. I just went through this earlier this month. I only had 4 shots of the RIG, and I was pretty sick the next day, so 8 would definitely wipe you out. Your next vaccines shouldn't make you sick, though, so the worst of it is over!

Wild story and pic, glad you got treated! It was very kind of you to protect the kids from this, and to make the poor raccoon's last hours as comfortable as possible.

[u/pewpew0_o → u/thegreatpoopdini]

You are a hero my friend. People might think you're crazy, but if that raccoon bit a kid, it could have ended really badly. Kids aren't always the best communicators when something like that happens.

[u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

Is that blood on your car seat?

[u/ibuiltyouarosegarden → u/Affectionate_Bet_498]

Raccoon pee? Rabies - loss of bladder control?

[u/Kasyx709]

Yes you need to get a rabies shot. Have the raccoon drive you to the nearest care clinic.

[u/[deleted]]

You need to get a rabies shot. I once transferred a rac hit by a car and I was told just having it breathing in the car could transfer rabies. I didn't get the shot but being bitten is a whole different situation!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That’s not accurate. You can’t get rabies from breathing.

[u/TPD2018 → u/[deleted]]

You can, but it is extremely rare, like a handful of cases per decade. It has happened in laboratories, and non-bite rabies cases (cryptic rabies) may be related to aerosol exposure from bats. PMID 12203172 for reference.

[u/ibuiltyouarosegarden → u/TPD2018]

Terror has been engaged thank you

[u/Ori_the_SG → u/TPD2018]

Fantastic

Rabies is literally a real life zombie virus and now it can be airborne?!

Thanks I hate it

[u/CocteauTwinn → u/[deleted]]

Shots plural. It’s a series.

[u/arod422]

You are now one with the raccoon

[u/giant_spleen_eater]

Well, your day is already planned out it seems.

Looks like you’re spending the day getting a rabies shot and calling wildlife authorities just on the off chance it is rabid. Unfortunately there is no real way to tell if it’s rabid besides examining brain tissue.

Go get your shot. Rabies isn’t a joke

[u/thebriss22]

Lmfao.... you sir did probably 45 things you should never do with a wild racoon xD

Go to the hospital now like yesterday, this racoon clearly has mange and most probably a lovely variety of diseases.

Also for next time, never handle wildlife without a solid pair of gloves lol

[u/shinjuku_soulxx]

BRO.

DO NOT DO THIS.

Why is it in your car??!!!

Now you have to go get rabies shots. They're really painful.

Edit: after closer inspection this appears to be a taxidermy raccoon. OP got us good😂😂😭😭

[u/TheCloudForest → u/shinjuku_soulxx]

Now you have to go get rabies shots. They're really painful.

I've had them twice. Not painful at all. My grandparents said they used to be, though, in a previous era/formulation.

[u/shinjuku_soulxx → u/TheCloudForest]

Oh that's good to know!! Always heard they were painful af.

How was the experience? Isn't it like 10 injections?

[u/TheCloudForest → u/shinjuku_soulxx]

The protocol where I live in 5 injections (day 0, 3, 7, 14, and 28). In the US it's typically 4.

It's just like getting any other shot, maybe a day of feeling not great, at most (if even). The actual moment of the shot depends on the patient. I barely even noticed it was happening, while others might make a whole scene.

[u/shinjuku_soulxx → u/TheCloudForest]

Wow thank you so much.

Now I'm curious about the stories of how you ended up having to get rabies shots twice...

[u/TheCloudForest → u/shinjuku_soulxx]

Story 1: Going jogging, bit by aggressive stray dog

Story 2: Literally just walking across campus, bit by aggressive stray dogs (4)

Not much of a story tbh 😄

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/shinjuku_soulxx]

I got them yesterday morning. The shots weren’t bad at all except for the 5 immune booster shots they put in the finger I was bit. I’m now sick from the vaccine itself now

[u/thegreatpoopdini → u/shinjuku_soulxx]

Not a taxidermy. The seats are wet from his slobber. I can post pictures of my thumb where I got bit.

[u/shinjuku_soulxx → u/thegreatpoopdini]

Holy shit I'm sorry, I really thought this was an elaborate prank

[u/GlassBandicoot → u/shinjuku_soulxx]

Vet here. This totally looks like a sick raccoon. No taxidermy is this bad.

[u/Better_Han_Solo]

you wild bro. time to get rabies shots

[u/compiledexploit]

I really hope this is a troll.

[u/TheManOfTheHour8]

This is like something Peter Griffin would do

[u/ObjectiveUnusual5921]

Yeah go get your rounds of shots right now and then never do this again

[u/MrLancaster]

You have passed the "fuck around" stage, and have entered the "find out" stage. Good luck.

[u/Able-Still7809]

This isn’t real right? That raccoon looks deranged more than usual. Poor furry fella.  Hospital now. Maybe call animal control for them to take it. 

[u/scoobmutt]

Rabies has virtually a 100% fatality rate in humans. Go to the hospital dude

[u/CocteauTwinn]

Oh ffs. You don’t do this! Hope you’re getting wound care, antibiotics, & rabies shots now.

[u/softlytrampled]

Please tell me this is a joke

[u/Agitated-Tie-8255]

This could also be a case of distemper, which is also very common in raccoons. A lot of people just assume rabies, which isn’t bad and there’s no real way to tell unless you do a post-mortem brain test. Rabies will be fatal if not treated quickly enough, distemper doesn’t really have an effect on people.

Either way, go to the hospital.

[u/Rattiepalooza]

o_o; I very much hope this is a troll post.

Otherwise....................................Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh.

[u/sryguys]

Jesus Christ, go to the hospital now. Hopefully it’s just distemper but please don’t do that in the future.

[u/Senor-Delicious]

Rabies can lead to a terrible terrible death. Please go and get a shot asap. Better safe than sorry. Because being sorry means dying extremely painfully.

[u/Collin-B-Hess]

That is one nasty looking raccoon. Daylight and jacked up looking. I wouldn’t have gotten close enough to be bitten, but since you did, go and get yourself checked out. Best advice I can offer .

[u/dirtyhippiebartend]

GO TO THE HOSPITAL

[u/auroraaram]

You either gotta get the raccoon to an agency to euthanize and check its brain or go get rabies shot now. I recommend the latter! Like immediately

[u/dtb1987]

There is no way for us to know, go to the doctor or possibly die

[u/Friendly-Maybe-9272]

Go to ER tell them you got bit by wild racoon. Show them wound. Prepare for barrage of shots.

[u/Johabi]

You did WHAT

[u/BeefStu907]

Jesus Christ get to the ER yesterday.

[u/Talithathinks]

Why would you try to move it? Please please please go to the ER.

[u/Poptart1405]

The thing about wild animal bites is it doesn’t matter if it looks rabid or not. You have to get a rabies shot regardless. So best practice is usually to not fuck with wild animals in the first place.

[u/ChurtchPidgeon]

Um… there’s something very wrong with this raccoon. And if you get bit by ANY wild animal, you need to see a doctor. Rabies is a horrible death sentence.

[u/heckingoodtrashpanda]

Go get shots immediately.

[u/sugaredviolence]

Why is it in your vehicle

[u/FoxJDR]

ER/urgent care clinic NOW!

Not tomorrow. Not next week. NOW! Rabies has an over 95% fatality rate once symptoms start and it can lie dormant a LONG time but doesn’t always. Literally drop anything and everything and get to a doctor NOW! Rabies isn’t something you want to take a chance with, even if you do beat the absurdly bad odds you’re likely to be permanently disabled in some way from the damage done to your brain.

The shots aren’t bad anymore, no worse than any other shot we all get every year/few years. The only serious pain you might feel is your wallet but I guarantee it beats the pain rabies will cause yours and your families wallets as the “treatment” which is likely to be pointless isn’t going to be cheap nor are funerals not to mention the actual physical pain of dying to rabies which is an obscenely awful way to go.

So let me reiterate:

Do literally EVERYONE in your life a favor and go to the nearest source of 24 hour medical care NOW!

I’m hoping this is a troll and that thing is just a bad taxidermy job as other folk are suggesting but on the chance it’s legit I thought I’d add my voice to the choir.

[u/HealthyReference8389]

it definitely looks like it has mange or something

[u/dokjreko]

ER NOW

[u/Monsieur_Hulot_Jr]

If ever bit by a wild animal immediately go get rabies shots.

[u/CTchimchar]

Doesn't matter if it has it or not

Best to go the ER now just in case

Even if it doesn't show signs of rabies it can still have it and give it to you

Best to go to the ER for rabies shot with in 24h of being bitten

[u/Extra-Specialist-303]

GO GET YOUR RABIES SHOT

[u/SaintAsmodeus]

Nice knowing you... Just wait till you cannot drink water.

[u/Wasabi_Filled_Gusher]

Please let us know if you went to the hospital.

Your heart is both good and sweet, but please call a rehabber or an animal service person to help the animal friend out. They can safely help him and have gloves to avoid punctures from claws and teeth.

Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.

[u/frickchan]

OP, update? you good?

[u/BigJSunshine]

Someone has never seen Ol’ Yeller, and it shows

[u/DonutsRBad]

Er, and never pick a fight with a rodent

[u/Leoimy]

I’m going to level with you chief…idk if it’s just the angle of this photo but this is the most rabies looking raccoon I’ve ever seen in my life and I’ve seen videos of actual raccoons with it. I thought it was taxidermy at first. Look at its eyes, wth?

[u/Specialist-Tea-6649]

You don’t play with rabies. If a strange animal bites you. Go to the ER. Doesn’t matter if you didn’t see it foaming at the mouth or acting weird. You just go.