Rabid fox
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Cowgirl
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Well, in the case of a fox, I'd think if they were out during the day and had a "normal" response (like running way from humans) it would be fine. We always had foxes on the farms where I've worked. They had dens in the pastures, so we'd see them pretty frequently, but they wouldn't hang around once they saw us.
Dougstermd
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Yes but you could always have one of these nice forum gentleman come over and do it and say:
I don't know what you are talking about
Bingo we have a winner
Dougstermd
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Rabid fox 02-01-2008 12:06 PM And then you'd eat it, then sit on the porch playing banjo while drinking moonshine. You'd wrap up the night by trying to rape your sister. Yeeeee Hawwww!
Never tried to have sex with my sister cause your momma gave us all we wanted
Never tried to have sex with my sister cause your momma gave us all we wanted
huntr1
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Want the fox population behind your house lowered? My buddy and I are fox hunters. Call them in and shoot them with a scoped .17hmr, using a red spotlight to see them in the dark. PM me if interested.
LOL
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Are you a believer in FSM??? haha
clevalley
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Not fox. They are nocturnal. You hunt nocturnal animals at night.
The fox population is so out of control in Charles Co. that you can hunt them 24/7.
You are able to hunt Fox, Racoons, Coyote and Opossum at night in Maryland during their applicable seasons!
AK-74me
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My dad swore he saw one a few years back before the DNR confirmed that they ARE in fact in every MD county.
And the fox population needs to be decreased they are everywhere and many have deseases and are the main reason turkey populations are suffering.
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I see foxes only a weekly basis, usually more than once a week. Usually around dusk though, not middle of the day. This is in the ranch club, they are lucky they aren't getting hit more often.
I have foxes around my house in the woods and in fact heard one last night doing just that. I've occasionally startled them as they pass around my house and it's funny to hear them 'bark' at me.
I haven't seen or heard of any rabid foxes around my area but did have a rabid raccoon that a friend took care of with a shotgun and then a shovel after the shots didn't kill it.
huntr1
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The foxes eat the baby turkey. There used to be quail around too. No more. Foxes took care of them too.
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daviskh
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The Truth About Rabies
Please note the number of innocent animals killed in 2005 because of the unrealistic fear of rabies, 5,009 and 4,546 were negative and only ONE cat in Charles County was positive. Zoonosis Control Branch, Texas Department of State Health Services
Since 1950 only 201 people have contracted rabies in the United States! And of the 201, only one in Maryland in 1976 by a BAT!
Human Deaths from Rabies "Humane Society of the United States"
Given all the media attention that rabies regularly receives, it may be somewhat surprising to learn that very few people die from rabies nationwide each year. During the past 10 years, rabies caused a total of 28 human fatalities in the United States, largely because the victims failed to recognize the health risks associated with bite wounds and did not seek medical advice or treatment. Seven of those people died after contracting rabies in a foreign country; five others included an organ donor and organ transplant recipients who tragically succumbed to rabies after the donor was misdiagnosed.
The few human deaths resulting from rabies have been almost entirely due to a domestic bat strain or from a canine strain that victims contracted in a foreign country. Despite the fact that raccoons suffer from rabies more than any other mammal in the United States (about 35 percent of all animal rabies cases), only one human death from the raccoon strain of rabies has ever been recorded in the United States. Most of the bat cases have been of the silver-haired bat strain, which is surprising, since this solitary species is rarely found in or around human dwellings. Only a very small percentage of bats carry rabies—less than one-half of one percent of all bats in North America.
Vaccination programs targeting wildlife have been instituted in many regions over the past 15 years and are helping to reduce the transmission of rabies between wildlife and people. Administered by federal or state wildlife officials, these programs entail the strategic distribution of baits containing oral rabies vaccines for wildlife. "Humane Society of the United States"
If rabies is truly a concern of the health department why aren't children required to be vaccinated or better yet, why doesn't the State of Maryland require rabies vaccinations in wild animals? Seems this could be a better use of expensive resources (people) rather than harassing Maryland state residents trying to keep rabies out of the cat population by TNRing.
Heather
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Please note the number of innocent animals killed in 2005 because of the unrealistic fear of rabies, 5,009 and 4,546 were negative and only ONE cat in Charles County was positive. Zoonosis Control Branch, Texas Department of State Health Services
Since 1950 only 201 people have contracted rabies in the United States! And of the 201, only one in Maryland in 1976 by a BAT!
Human Deaths from Rabies "Humane Society of the United States"
Given all the media attention that rabies regularly receives, it may be somewhat surprising to learn that very few people die from rabies nationwide each year. During the past 10 years, rabies caused a total of 28 human fatalities in the United States, largely because the victims failed to recognize the health risks associated with bite wounds and did not seek medical advice or treatment. Seven of those people died after contracting rabies in a foreign country; five others included an organ donor and organ transplant recipients who tragically succumbed to rabies after the donor was misdiagnosed.
The few human deaths resulting from rabies have been almost entirely due to a domestic bat strain or from a canine strain that victims contracted in a foreign country. Despite the fact that raccoons suffer from rabies more than any other mammal in the United States (about 35 percent of all animal rabies cases), only one human death from the raccoon strain of rabies has ever been recorded in the United States. Most of the bat cases have been of the silver-haired bat strain, which is surprising, since this solitary species is rarely found in or around human dwellings. Only a very small percentage of bats carry rabies—less than one-half of one percent of all bats in North America.
Vaccination programs targeting wildlife have been instituted in many regions over the past 15 years and are helping to reduce the transmission of rabies between wildlife and people. Administered by federal or state wildlife officials, these programs entail the strategic distribution of baits containing oral rabies vaccines for wildlife. "Humane Society of the United States"
If rabies is truly a concern of the health department why aren't children required to be vaccinated or better yet, why doesn't the State of Maryland require rabies vaccinations in wild animals? Seems this could be a better use of expensive resources (people) rather than harassing Maryland state residents trying to keep rabies out of the cat population by TNRing.
Heather
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nhboy
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This just happened in Arizona.....
"Ten-year-old Paul John Schalow and his cousin, Brittany, 9, sat along the Verde River on Saturday afternoon after their family set up camp, passing the time by filling their cups with sand.
Moments later, their grandfather Newton Smith remembers someone yelling "look," turning everyone's attention toward a mountain lion hovering over Paul.
The El Mirage boy, who was celebrating his 10th birthday in the Tonto National Forest, remained calm even as he was attacked by the animal. The cat tested positive for rabies, the Arizona Department of Health Services confirmed on Monday.
The boy's uncle shot the lion in time for the youngster to escape with only scratches on his back.
"The kids were cool as could be," said Smith, a Glendale resident. "Paul said to himself, when the lion was on him, 'I know he's trying to push me, and I wasn't going to let him'." The victim and five family members who were exposed to the infected lion will start a series of post-exposure rabies shots as a health precaution, said Randy Babb, a biologist with the Arizona Game & Fish Department."
10-year-old calm as lion attacked, grampa recalls
"Ten-year-old Paul John Schalow and his cousin, Brittany, 9, sat along the Verde River on Saturday afternoon after their family set up camp, passing the time by filling their cups with sand.
Moments later, their grandfather Newton Smith remembers someone yelling "look," turning everyone's attention toward a mountain lion hovering over Paul.
The El Mirage boy, who was celebrating his 10th birthday in the Tonto National Forest, remained calm even as he was attacked by the animal. The cat tested positive for rabies, the Arizona Department of Health Services confirmed on Monday.
The boy's uncle shot the lion in time for the youngster to escape with only scratches on his back.
"The kids were cool as could be," said Smith, a Glendale resident. "Paul said to himself, when the lion was on him, 'I know he's trying to push me, and I wasn't going to let him'." The victim and five family members who were exposed to the infected lion will start a series of post-exposure rabies shots as a health precaution, said Randy Babb, a biologist with the Arizona Game & Fish Department."
10-year-old calm as lion attacked, grampa recalls
Katt
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I had a rabid skunk here at my barn last monday. It went right in the barn with my german sheppard tied up in the isle and skunked her. Went out the opposite door of the barn, and while I was trying to throw rocks at him (w/out any other weapon at hand) to get him to leave, he kept coming after me and the rocks as they landed. I called a friend to come over with a shotgun and he took care of it, but that darned skunk stuck around, bother me and my horses and dog for 15 mins. Was not scared at all. I called the Health dept and they came and picked it up, and tested positive for rabies. All my animals were up to date on their rabies shots, but I had the dog reboosted since she was close enough to get skunked. I've never seen anything so strange as a wild animal, steadily coming at me and my flash light in his eyes even. Be ware! If your animal isn't up to date on rabies, they will make you quarantine them for 6 months from human contact to be sure they don't show signs. It is so deadly. Vaccinating your pets/livestock is your first line of defense against rabies. DO IT! it's worth it.