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I think this thread has run its course.

Quote: You need to receive treatment before you develop symptoms. Once you've developed symptoms, it's too late. If you are in the medical field surely you understand that. Getting into a car doesn't kill you. Eating an occasional McDonald's hamburger doesn't kill you. Getting an...

Quote: Well, there's a real good chance the car, cell phone or a moderate amount of fast food will not kill you - rabies will kill you dead. I agree the skunk looked healthy enough, but that is no assurance that it isn't a carrier. There is only one known survivor of a rabies infection, I...

Quote: Yes, let's cool it with the evolution/creationism debate, it doesn't belong here.

Quote: Skunks hibernate in the summer?? Thats a new one on me. Look where the poster is from. Argentina IS in the SOUTHERN hemisphere where it is LATE SPRING/ early summer. Argentina in the Southern hemisphere??? NO WAY. The orginal post did not say Argentina. Do you have anything...

While it's illegal now, years ago a friend of mine had a pet skunk, she had been descented. She was a great pet, as long as you didn't try to pat her without her seeing your hand - she'd go nuts if you approached her from behind. She was almost cat-like, but not soft like a cat, her fur was...

Quote: Excellent observation, that hadn't occurred to me.

While skunks definitely do carry rabies, that isn't necessarily the case. There are strange 'adoptions' all through nature. I wouldn't handle the skunk (chickens do not get rabies), but I would observe its behavior.