Lookit what I found this morning

hoofinitnorth · #81 02/07/07, 04:08 PM

Not all counties have animal control offices.

toomb68 · #82 02/07/07, 05:27 PM

i got a big chuckle reading this thread, and it makes me wonder how on earth i survived my childhood? we rode in cars without seatbelts. we rode on bikes without helmets. we shot guns without safety goggles and hearing protection. we played with firecrackers( and later black powder). we went fishing without lifejackets. we went swimming in the creek ( without lifeguards)...and a few other things i don't want my parents to find out about to this day!
it is a dead frozen raccoon for crying out loud! if my parents would have had every wild animal that i came in contact with( dead or alive) tested for rabies they'd have been in the poor house long ago. the one thing i never did do was boil one with potatoes and carrots. i wonder why we didn't think of that?

chris

ET1 SS · #83 02/07/07, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by toomb68

i got a big chuckle reading this thread,

Me too.

LOL

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... and it makes me wonder how on earth i survived my childhood? we rode in cars without seatbelts. we rode on bikes without helmets. we shot guns without safety goggles and hearing protection. we played with firecrackers( and later black powder). we went fishing without lifejackets. we went swimming in the creek ( without lifeguards)...and a few other things i don't want my parents to find out about to this day!

How did we survive?

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... it is a dead frozen raccoon for crying out loud! if my parents would have had every wild animal that i came in contact with( dead or alive) tested for rabies they'd have been in the poor house long ago.

LOL

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... the one thing i never did do was boil one with potatoes and carrots. i wonder why we didn't think of that? chris

It is good.

hoofinitnorth · #84 02/07/07, 08:17 PM

I liked the Hanta Virus comment. LOL

rockinl · #85 02/07/07, 08:42 PM

I don't really have a reply about the racoon because I don't know. HOWEVER....your boys are DARLING. Are they twins?

I LOVE little boys. What characters you have.
Thanks for the pics and I hope the boys are just fine.

Havea great day, Kimberly

alpacamom · #86 02/07/07, 10:04 PM

toomb68 Once I got over my initial shock of the alarm my pics caused, I got quite the chuckle out of this thread, too. I should be dead by now with all the things I did as a kid that parents wouldn't even consider letting their kids do these days. What's particularly funny is that a lot of these parents grew up doing the same silly stuff I did! Oh well...what can you do?

rockinl Thank you for your sweet words about my boys! Nope, not twins unless you count Irish twins. They're just under 11 months apart and "characters" doesn't begin to describe them! LOL

foxtrapper · #87 02/08/07, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by insocal

Try asking that smart-alecky question of the folks who have died of rabies after picking up a dead (rabid)bat and not getting rabies shots.

Oh, that's right. You can't. They're DEAD.

It's a public health issue. And that's why YOU'RE not working in public health, lol. 'Cause you don't know squat.

Hmmm, you'd think an "expert" would realize that long dead and frozen racoon does not contain a viable contagious rabies virus. That's pretty common knowledge in the field.

One would also think an "expert" in the field would be aware of the timespan limitations on performing the test for rabies, and how this long dead frozen racoon exceeds that timespan limitation and cannot be accurately tested.