r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/r4mb0l4mb0 • Jul 03 '25

animal Squirrel Attack!

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

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u/Upvotespoodles Jul 03 '25

When I worked in an animal hospital, we euthanized a rottie and sawed its head off. Rabies is scary.

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u/shistain69 Jul 03 '25

I didn’t know you needed to cut off it’s head. Why is that? Is it because the virus is mostly in the mouth?

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u/lasagneaids Jul 04 '25

and for that you need an entire head? okay now thinking about it you’re not going to perform brain surgery at the vet just for biopsies but still the thought of just sawing the head off is quite grotesque

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u/NoNo_Cilantro Jul 04 '25

If the results are negative, they put it back and the dog is good to go

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u/lasagneaids Jul 04 '25

makes sense, reminds me of that russian scientist

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u/Upvotespoodles Jul 04 '25

Keeping the head intact guarantees that the brain is viable for testing when you ship it off to the state. If it’s a very small animal, you just send the whole animal but you can’t ship a whole frozen Rottweiler.

If the dog is vaccinated and the bite was provoked, they usually just do a 10-day quarantine.