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To: piytar
piytar said: "The cat was destroyed?"

I "euthanized" a feral tomcat several years ago in order to protect our pet cats. The tomcat probably weighed twice what our cats weighed.

The tomcat was very wary of humans. When I would first see him, he would be just coming over the horizon. If he saw me, he would immediately disappear. He wanted to have nothing to do with me or any other human.

The cat in the video, however, seemed relatively fearless in the face of human aggression. This is often a symptom of rabies. Infected animals lose any fear of humans.

Animals who are suspected of being infected with rabies are frequently subject to testing of their brain tissue, which is an invasive terminal procedure.

30 posted on 01/12/2014 3:35:33 PM PST by William Tell
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To: William Tell

Rabies shots are no fun...even when they tell you “oh, they’re *much* better than before”.

All I can say is they must’ve been 9 yards of hard ridin’ Hell in the past.


34 posted on 01/12/2014 3:39:24 PM PST by Salamander (Sleeping don't come very easy in a strait white vest.)
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