Moving a young raccoon

[dodge man]

That is very risky to your health. I was bitten by a wild animal and got rabies shots by advice of the PA Game commission.
Not fun to go through.

I would never suggest having only the length of a shovel between you and a possibly rabid wild animal. That thing could jump on you and bite your ass in a country second.

There not alive when I pick them up with a shovel, they have been properly ventilated. If I got rabies shots for every dead animal I picked up I’d be getting them 10 times a year or more.

 

[ponytug]

There not alive when I pick them up with a shovel, they have been properly ventilated. If I got rabies shots for every dead animal I picked up I’d be getting them 10 times a year or more.

Ok, not an MD here, but I did live for a time in an area with packs of feral dogs, some of which became rabid on a fairly regular basis. Scary. The employees were all vaccinated against rabies to slow the spread of the virus, and give us time to get the full treatment. One of the employees in another area, where there weren't rabies vaccination requirements, played with a small puppy and got bitten on the web of her hand, between her thumb and forefinger. She succumbed to rabies from the small bite that she ignored fairly rapidly.

Based on that experience, if you are around potentially rabid carcasses that often, if it were me, I'd have a conversation with your doctor about being preemptively vaccinated against rabies. It is a much smaller shot, and boosts your chances of survival.

Our vet (!) recommended vaccinating all of our horses against rabies when we moved out into the boonies because apparently horses can pick up rabies from grazing contaminated grass/forage. He pointed out to us that we were likely going to stick our hands in the drooling horse's mouth to check for foreign objects, thereby potentially giving us a massive dose of rabies. We vaccinated the ponies pronto.

All the best,

Peter

 

[MossRoad]

That's the thing about rabies... you contract it through the blood or saliva of an infected animal. It has to enter you through an open wound or mucous membrane like eyes, nose, mouth. The chance of catching it are pretty small. However, it's statistically fatal 100% of the time in humans. The number of human survivors is few and far between. Plus, the incubation period in a human can vary from days to many months.

When we had our bat/kitten incident, if it would have just been my wife and me, we probably would have done nothing. However, our kids were involved. I'm not going to take even the remotest chance with our kids, so off to the doctor we went.

This poor woman died about 5-6 weeks after being bitten.

California teacher dies from rabies month after being bitten by bat in her classroom

Leah Seneng, 61, carried the winged mammal out of her classroom and released it, not knowing she had been bitten and fatally infected.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Sigarms]

That's just it, rabies is not air born.

Disposing of a dead animal as long as you don't touch it, you won't have a problem.

Should be buried deep. Since I don't have a back hoe, last one was 3.5' deep (and that was a workout) and body was double bagged.

Per the woman who died on the bat bite, sad, but preventable. NEVER touch a strange wild animal. That woman thinking she was just scratched by the bat gave her her own death sentence from not seeking treatment right away.

 

[Dftodd]

That's just it, rabies is not air born.

Disposing of a dead animal as long as you don't touch it, you won't have a problem.

Should be buried deep. Since I don't have a back hoe, last one was 3.5' deep (and that was a workout) and body was double bagged.

Per the woman who died on the bat bite, sad, but preventable. NEVER touch a strange wild animal. That woman thinking she was just scratched by the bat gave her her own death sentence from not seeking treatment right away.

I think I would be digging a hole as deep as I could with the loader bucket of my tractor.

 

[Sigarms]

I think I would be digging a hole as deep as I could with the loader bucket of my tractor.

So would I if I could afford one

 

[Dftodd]

So would I if I could afford one

Your on a tractor site, so i figured you had a tractor with a loader My bad for assuming

I should have checked your profile

I got a very specific threat from my wife.

She has it all planned out how she can hide my body and get away with it using the tractorz some dead animals and the back 40 of our property

 

[ponytug]

Your on a tractor site, so i figured you had a tractor with a loader My bad for assuming

I should have checked your profile

I got a very specific threat from my wife.

She has it all planned out how she can hide my body and get away with it using the tractorz some dead animals and the back 40 of our property

Wow! That's pretty specific and detailed planning on someone's part.

I'd be watching my step and sleeping with one eye open.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Sigarms]

Your on a tractor site, so i figured you had a tractor with a loader My bad for assuming

I should have checked your profile

I got a very specific threat from my wife.

She has it all planned out how she can hide my body and get away with it using the tractorz some dead animals and the back 40 of our property

No worries LOL

Only thing I never paid cash for was our home when we bought it 20 years ago, and now it's paid off.

When we bought the place, I knew nothing about tractors which is why I came here.

What I found out is when I went to auctions, even back around 2005, pricing for used old tractors seemed stupid. I could not justify the out of pocket expense of what a new tractor would run me to the misses for the size I thought I would need (like a gun safe, bigger is always better LOL). Locally, even back then, there didn't see to be many used tractors for sale that justified the price vs buying new IMO.

That said, good thing I did come here. I got to meet John Thomas in person, he gave me a test drive on his F series Kubota, price wasn't bad at the time IMO for under 150 hours on it, so I bought it.

Picked up some spare parts at the local Kubota dealer a couple of months ago. He had a F mower sitting in his showroom. Feel over dead when I saw the price. More than double than any used vehicle we've ever bought.

In hindsight (perfect science) after 20 years living here, should have financed a tractor and got what I wanted. Now, being empty nesters, we're getting ready to downsize because the house and property is too big for us. Life sure is funny...

 

[Dftodd]

No worries LOL

Only thing I never paid cash for was our home when we bought it 20 years ago, and now it's paid off.

When we bought the place, I knew nothing about tractors which is why I came here.

What I found out is when I went to auctions, even back around 2005, pricing for used old tractors seemed stupid. I could not justify the out of pocket expense of what a new tractor would run me to the misses for the size I thought I would need (like a gun safe, bigger is always better LOL). Locally, even back then, there didn't see to be many used tractors for sale that justified the price vs buying new IMO.

That said, good thing I did come here. I got to meet John Thomas in person, he gave me a test drive on his F series Kubota, price wasn't bad at the time IMO for under 150 hours on it, so I bought it.

Picked up some spare parts at the local Kubota dealer a couple of months ago. He had a F mower sitting in his showroom. Feel over dead when I saw the price. More than double than any used vehicle we've ever bought.

In hindsight (perfect science) after 20 years living here, should have financed a tractor and got what I wanted. Now, being empty nesters, we're getting ready to downsize because the house and property is too big for us. Life sure is funny...

Wife and I went the opposite direction. Downsizing the house and up sized the property now that we are empty nesters.

Looking to build an 2 bed, 2 bath handicapped accessible home, shop, chicken and hog pens. And rotate a couple cows out there in the back acreage for food. Plus a garden and green house

We're planning to raise our meat, and what ever veggies we can grow. And die in the house