Raccoon drowned in pond?!

[Lilki]

Our situation was that between us and my MIL we had four dogs that free range on the place. By the time we found the coon any one of them could have had contact with it, we had no way of knowing whether they had or hadn't.

We are a little picky about possible rabies infected creatures. My daughter was bitten by an injured dog that she tried to help. The owners, who lived along a stretch of river and bottomland assured us that the dog was current with its rabies vaccination. Nope, it wasn't current by a LONG SHOT. While we were learning that it wasn't current, they disposed of the dog in a flooded creek!...dog long gone so it could not send it in for testing. My daughter had to go through the set of shots to be sure she didn't come down with rabies. The odds were that the dog was not rabid, but remember, you only get one time to do anything about rabies...there's no second chances or re-do's.

Ed

That's awful!! What creeps. It's good your daughter got the shots though. Before I listened to a podcast on the subject, I didn't realize rabies is almost 100% fatal. Such a scary disease, as when you start having symptoms it's too late. I once had a bat get lost in my house and all night I had visions of being bit in the middle of the night. Never found that bat.