Diseased Mink... Questions and Facts.

[Chickenhappy8708]

Ok, so me and my family were working on the chicken run, when a little mink started hobbling toward us, and fell. It laied there for a good 30 or so minutes, and then, as we were about to finish it off with a shovel, it got up, and ran towards us, we were about 20 feet away, so we ran back. It seemed to lose focuse and hobbled away, about 1000 feet laying down and kept going, its in the woods now, not sure if its alive or dead. Its far enough away for the coop now for me to be unconcerned, but cautious. What do you think it has, Rabies, its likely according to new studies, that COVID 19 was contracted by minks, what are your thoughts/opinions on the topic?

 

[igorsMistress]

If the mink could spread covid I would contact your state fish and game. They may also want to know about rabies. I don't know that I'd want another animal eating the carcass and then hanging around in the woods close to my property.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Will do.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Alright, he's reported, waiting for DNR response.

 

[aart]

Rabies, maybe....Covid, I seriously doubt it.
Too bad you didn't get it with the shovel, but I probably would have backed off also.

 

[nao57]

Well if its rabies, rabies has some very particular tells. This sounds like...possibility.

With rabies don't so much watch for the frothy mouth, as much as bizarre confused behavior.

There are a few videos on Youtube of people filming animals.

And rabies basically affects the brain and overwrites their behavior.

They will act confused, wander around. They might act like a Seattle protester...oh wait, just kidding about that part. But they will act afraid and upset almost like bipolar changes fast. They might attack objects or people. Even deer with rabies may attack things, when they are supposed to be herd animals.

Falling down for no reason (when not injured), can also be described as a rabies case. Plus, unpredictable rapid changes in behavior, seemingly totally random, etc. In a few cases, infected with rabies animals acted like they could see other animals that weren't there near them, that they might try to interact with. (Bizarre...)

This is why looking for a frothy mouth only can overlook a lot of things.

My veterinarian family member didn't see rabies except maybe once his whole career. (Instead it was mostly all parvo, etc.)

Hope that helps.

PS...if any of your animals had contact with this thing, you should isolate them from yourselves and each other. And you may want to make sure none of your other animals can get in contact with this again, in the next few days.

PSS Its a year of plagues. Anything can happen now.

IF it is rabies or if they think its rabies, and you tell local government they may want to destroy your animals if they think they had contact with it, even if its small. (Sometimes this isn't a bad thing... but that would be how they'd make sure to contain it possibly. But not speaking as any kind of professional.)

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Thanks, we can't find him, he probably wandered off and died somewhere. My dogs aren't aloud off leash, Buddie would run off, and Millie would probably eat rabid animals, so that's not a problem, and the chickens were in the coop, so I don't think its possible for them to come in contact, we will keep an eye out, he looked confused, kinda like frantic, couldn't see his face too well, IDK about foamy mouths. I hope whatever he has, he doesn't pass on. As for random actions, he was asleep, then charged us, walked around in broad daylight, into bushes. He seemed limpy as well, overall, not healthy. I was also thinking... How do you test a mink for COVID? They don't seem 2 willing to let you swab their noses, 3 mink tested positive in the Netherlands. Well, bats, birds, minks, whatever, stay home, stay safe, and don't attend political rallys, Trump... Or Biden for that matter LOL.

 

[nao57]

Thanks, we can't find him, he probably wandered off and died somewhere. My dogs aren't aloud off leash, Buddie would run off, and Millie would probably eat rabid animals, so that's not a problem, and the chickens were in the coop, so I don't think its possible for them to come in contact, we will keep an eye out, he looked confused, kinda like frantic, couldn't see his face too well, IDK about foamy mouths. I hope whatever he has, he doesn't pass on. As for random actions, he was asleep, then charged us, walked around in broad daylight, into bushes. He seemed limpy as well, overall, not healthy. I was also thinking... How do you test a mink for COVID? They don't seem 2 willing to let you swab their noses, 3 mink tested positive in the Netherlands. Well, bats, birds, minks, whatever, stay home, stay safe, and don't attend political rallys, Trump... Or Biden for that matter LOL.

One of the reasons animals CAN get Covid is because this was what the Chinese did with their bioweapons lab. Its in the documentary on Covid done with 'crossroads with Joshua Phillips' or something like that. (You can find it on Youtube.)

Its kind of horrific what they did.

Normally with most diseases there's a limit to how many 'germ elevators' can hold a disease, with most species outside of that. Think about it like a germ elevator is like mice or ticks or fleas (Medieval plagues). So a germ elevator is a type of species that can be a disease vector. Disease vectors and germ elevators are basically the same thing.

So what they did over there is they were messing with overcoming species barriers to diseases. They took a whole bunch of crap diseases, mixed them in together in one. And then they removed species barriers to make it so this lump sum disease could hop through species that shouldn't normally catch it.

Also I'm stating this as science and not any way political.

But people are wonder why can pets catch Covid....and this is why.

So in normal terms if your dog had Parvo, normally humans couldn't get parvo, and neither could cows or horses.

But with Covid what they did is to change it so...what if we made it so Parvo could go into non-dogs and humans also? Except the disease(s) weren't Parvo but a lot of other things mixed into one. (And the mixed into one thing is why some people will get something that attacks the brain, but others get something that attacks the lungs etc. And the reason its attacking different organs is because they have a lot of things mixed in there that are more than one illness, and that's how you know. Because an illness will normally only target a specific set of organs.)

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Interesting, ill look into it.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

UPDATE: AHHHHH.. THE MINKS HAS BABIES!!!!! OMG we saw baby minks running around, look in not the least bit rabid hopefully their ok, and will continue to leave the chickens be.