It's hard for me to read about Rabies. When I was a young girl an Irish Setter with Rabies came through the yard when I was playing outside.
It tried to attack me but I was able to climb up on the top of our corral fence and scream. Our beagle came running and barked so much that it finally alerted my father.
All I remember was the fact that a group of men from the neighborhood includeing the police had to hunt the dog down that ran off. They finally found it and killed it.
We were lucky that day that I was able to stay away from it and that it did not attack our dog that was out there.
Years later I still had nightmares over that dog with the foaming mouth! I still have trouble going near wild animals/large dogs.
Yet another time I was bitten by a cat that was a stray and I was silly enough to pet it. It use to belong to someone in the area that moved away and left the cat to fend for itself and it quickly became wild.
I ended up at the hospital while my sister and neighbors spent hours looking the yards and field for this cat! We were told that they either had to find the cat right away or I would go through the series of shots. Finally my sister found the cat and it was determined to be ok and I was able to go without the shots.
Whew!
But my sister never let me forget how she had to spend hours stomping through a field to save my life! lol
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