Because the bobcat is in a high-risk category for rabies, and it bit someone, its fate is already determined.

Nothing worse than a rabid washed up 80s comedian

Thanks, moron Samaritan. Because you couldn't just let animal control deal with it, your actions just got the poor thing killed. Nice going.

Injured bobcat lays lies dying on the side of the road. Do you A) Call Animal Control. B) Ignore it and go on with your day. C) Get your dumb face in real close to make sure it's okay

FIFY

Rabies shots will be about as fun as a napalm enema.

Mom's anurse, and in the times i've been with her at the scene of roadside accident (she always stops unless EMTS are on scene), shes got the nerves of combat medic when treating injuries. No matter how gruesome, she just stays calm collected and efficent. The same woman cannot handle a wounded or sick animal AT ALL, she bursts into tears and goes t pieces when confronted with one. I tied to figure this dichotomy out once and she said simply "because a huamn understands you are trying to help, even if it hurts, an animal can't"

Which is a DAMN good reason to be super-careful when dealing with any hurt animal that is also of a size to do you significant bodily harm (which is pretty much a hampster on up)

Lord Summerisle: D) finish it off with a tyre iron.

If she claims the tyre iron out of the boot, the bobbies may see her and dispatch her to gaol.

Box it up and ship it to somebody who's ordered an office chair from your eBay page.


Jeez, I thought everybody knew that one.

JackieRabbit: FTFA: "Because the bobcat is in a high-risk category for rabies, and it bit someone, its fate is already determined."

This just didn't jibe with my memory, so I just looked it up. The bobcat, like all cats, is not a high-risk species. In fact they have a rather low risk. Low-risk animals are usually quarantined and observed. The bite victim usually only needs a rabies vaccine injection at the bite site.

Yeah, but remember this is Flori-duh

Jument: Heck, try this with an average house cat and you could still end up with a pretty serious bite wound.

Speaking as someone who spent a night in the hospital getting stitches and antibiotics because of a house cat, I'm getting a kick...

It's Florida; there is no option other than C.

JackieRabbit: The bobcat, like all cats, is not a high-risk species. In fact they have a rather low risk.

Most animals listed as "high risk for rabies" aren't really high risk - they get that distinction because they've bitten/attacked a human. It really should read "bobcats that attack humans are considered a high risk for rabies."

Of course, that's not even true in this case, because the animal didn't bite her out of the blue, it bit her because she approached it while it was injured.

Jument: DROxINxTHExWIND: They're serpents with fur.

I've always thought it funny that if you put your hand over the back of a cats head and flatten down their ears, they look vaguely serpent-ish. My wife is irrationally terrified of snakes and gets really made if I do that to our cats, even if I'm just stroking them and for a second unintentionally make them look snakey.

The fantasy writer Tanith Lee in one of her most obscure masterpieces has a marvelous Aesop-like tale of how serpents became cats to make people like them more (adding legs and fur because people found crawling and scales repellent, losing venom from thier fangs but adding claws for protection etc) and you know this tale is true she says, because if you startle a cat, just for a second it will forget itself and hiss at you.

DROxINxTHExWIND: Tanith Lee

The parable of the cat (new window)
/Cats is bastids

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"she had it comin'"

Natural Selection(SM).

/It's only natural.