Probably a stupid question, but I wonder if he needed rabies shots after? Hope he at least got those wounds super cleaned up, those could get infected in a really bad way.
Re: This is why proper target identification is so important...
[Re: claypool]
#921557404/29/2501:46 AM
Probably a stupid question, but I wonder if he needed rabies shots after? Hope he at least got those wounds super cleaned up, those could get infected in a really bad way.
I would say he needs them. Rabies is nothing to take lightly and it will be too late once symptoms start. We are all assuming the bobcat attacked, thinking he was a turkey but it's impossible to know for sure. Better safe than sorry especially since now the shots are only a series of about four shots in the arm not twenty-one in the stomach as in the old days.
Probably a stupid question, but I wonder if he needed rabies shots after? Hope he at least got those wounds super cleaned up, those could get infected in a really bad way.
I would say he needs them. Rabies is nothing to take lightly and it will be too late once symptoms start. We are all assuming the bobcat attacked, thinking he was a turkey but it's impossible to know for sure. Better safe than sorry especially since now the shots are only a series of about four shots in the arm not twenty-one in the stomach as in the old days.
This just came up with a neighbor and I was relieved to hear that the rabies shots are now done this way. Neighbor went out to a racket, mid-day, to find their dog fighting a raccoon. Both dog and raccoon were bleeding from the fight and once separated, the bandit ran up a tree. They shot the raccoon and took its carcass in where it tested positive for rabies. No bites to the humans, but as a precaution due to contact with the blood of both animals, shots were administered over a couple of weeks, and in arms, not stomach. All seem to have recovered...except the raccoon.
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Re: This is why proper target identification is so important...
[Re: dkershen]
#921850705/06/2507:34 PM
Probably a stupid question, but I wonder if he needed rabies shots after? Hope he at least got those wounds super cleaned up, those could get infected in a really bad way.
I would say he needs them. Rabies is nothing to take lightly and it will be too late once symptoms start. We are all assuming the bobcat attacked, thinking he was a turkey but it's impossible to know for sure. Better safe than sorry especially since now the shots are only a series of about four shots in the arm not twenty-one in the stomach as in the old days.
This just came up with a neighbor and I was relieved to hear that the rabies shots are now done this way. Neighbor went out to a racket, mid-day, to find their dog fighting a raccoon. Both dog and raccoon were bleeding from the fight and once separated, the bandit ran up a tree. They shot the raccoon and took its carcass in where it tested positive for rabies. No bites to the humans, but as a precaution due to contact with the blood of both animals, shots were administered over a couple of weeks, and in arms, not stomach. All seem to have recovered...except the raccoon.
I have kind of been obsessed with studying rabies in humans since the early 1960's when I saw rabies up close, I have multiple books and studies that range back to the 1940's, In this hunters case, one of the bad things is that he was scratched deeply on the face and head and I believe it said bitten on the head. Rabies climbs up the peripheral nerves to the central nervous system on its way to the brain. Bites to the head or face are much closer to the brain and there have been cases where symptoms occurred within a week to ten days when bites occur near the brain. Time is of the essence. Most of the time with lower body bites the virus takes longer- a month or more- to travel up the pathways.
I had a similar, as my experience, with a "brush" of reality was about 20 years ago during a turkey hunt in Mills County. One morning, I had set up along side a large laydown tree trunk, and began calling a big ole tom, who was responding to the call about 60 yards away. I could see him coming down the road into the creek bottom, answering back with his loud gobble, and was just beginning to come into the clearing for a perfect shot.
All of a sudden, I felt a hard tug on my jacket over my right shoulder. When I turned around, I was face-to-face with the biggest boar racoon that I've ever seen. He realized his mistake, just as I realized that he might attack, and we both scattered in opposite directions! Like we were sharing the same thoughts,the coon had gone about 30 yards, turned and looked back in disbelief! Of course, the big tom was long gone, too. Even today, I still have visions of seeing that big ole coon and the look on his face!!!
All of a sudden, I felt a hard tug on my jacket over my right shoulder. When I turned around, I was face-to-face with the biggest boar racoon that I've ever seen. He realized his mistake, just as I realized that he might attack, and we both scattered in opposite directions!
In retrospect, the mental image of that seems hilarious. In reality had we been hunting together, I would have been running with you.
