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		Q: What's worse than a wild bobcat mauling you in your own garage? A: Ask this guy (wtop.com)		63
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I_Am_Weasel		2013-01-09 03:06:43 PM

The cat ran out of the garage and bit Mundell's 15-year-old nephew on the arms and back before it was shot dead.

The poor child. Surely they could have just treated him with rabies medication instead of shooting him. That seems a little drastic.

/Pssst. Weasel. I think they meant they shot the bobcat

the_sidewinder		2013-01-09 03:27:50 PM

Good thing they started rabies treatment right away then

Dwedit		2013-01-09 03:28:11 PM

Would not buy again.

theotherwhitemeat		2013-01-09 03:29:04 PM

I've been through the rabies treatments.......sucks!! Def. feel bad for these folks!

Galactica Actual		2013-01-09 03:29:04 PM

Are bobcats native to New England? I had always thought of them as a Pacific Northwestern animal.

darth_badger		2013-01-09 03:29:10 PM

Also shot dead

Smoky Dragon Dish		2013-01-09 03:29:59 PM

Slartibeerfest		2013-01-09 03:30:42 PM

I seriously thought the answer was going to be two wild bobcats.

twiztedjustin		2013-01-09 03:31:27 PM

Obama would have preferred the rabid animal run off into the woods and then his health care pay for the rabies treatment "just in case it had rabies."

RedWineBuzz		2013-01-09 03:35:50 PM

Katchaa		2013-01-09 03:36:05 PM

Feels your pain.

Snargi		2013-01-09 03:36:21 PM

They should of held this story until Caturday.

TheOther		2013-01-09 03:36:52 PM

This guy pinned a rabid bobcat to the ground with a crutch?!?!

digboston.com

mekkab		2013-01-09 03:36:53 PM

FTFA:
He, his nephew and his wife _who was not bitten but got the animal's blood on her _ have already started rabies treatments.

THIS IS NOT HOW RABIES WORKS! It is transmitted through saliva!

H31N0US		2013-01-09 03:38:16 PM

the_sidewinder: Good thing they started rabies treatment right away then

I think that's SOP when an animal bites you. Better safe than sorry. Once you start showing symptoms, you're done; there is nothing they can do for you.

sewnandsilent		2013-01-09 03:38:24 PM

darth_badger: [www.diablomag.com image 366x222]

Also shot dead

TROLOLOLOLOLOL

wxboy		2013-01-09 03:38:53 PM

Galactica Actual: Are bobcats native to New England? I had always thought of them as a Pacific Northwestern animal.

Pretty much most of the country.
Bobcat range:
www.defenders.org

mekkab		2013-01-09 03:38:57 PM

Dwedit: Would not buy again.

I xkSEEd what you did, there.

Mattyb710		2013-01-09 03:41:13 PM

Dwedit: Would not buy again.

lol

Smoky Dragon Dish		2013-01-09 03:41:25 PM

wxboy: Galactica Actual: Are bobcats native to New England? I had always thought of them as a Pacific Northwestern animal.

Pretty much most of the country.
Bobcat range:
[www.defenders.org image 550x400]

That map lies. There are bobcat in NY, NJ, CT, etc...

adrift1827		2013-01-09 03:42:13 PM

Dwedit: Would not buy again.

Bravo!

blatz514		2013-01-09 03:43:09 PM

Shadow Blasko		2013-01-09 03:44:40 PM

theotherwhitemeat: I've been through the rabies treatments.......sucks!! Def. feel bad for these folks!

stop saying that shiat.
It makes people, especially children, afraid to tell people if they may have been bitten by a suspect animal

Rabies treatment shots are no worse than any others I have had, and I had to get my first series in my knuckle where I was bitten.

Its no big deal.

/works around rabies vector species.. gets shots at -least- annually and the same ones you have to get if I get bitten.

//just less of them

Charlie Chingas		2013-01-09 03:45:32 PM

That Chinese guy got really messed up...

db2		2013-01-09 03:46:21 PM

Did it set his chair on fire?

Albert911emt		2013-01-09 03:47:21 PM

adrift1827: Dwedit: Would not buy again.

Bravo!

+1, but seeing the actual cartoon would be more effective, so -1 for dropping the ball.

jvl		2013-01-09 03:48:02 PM

mekkab: THIS IS NOT HOW RABIES WORKS! It is transmitted through saliva!

Would you bet someone's life on your theory that the blood had no bobcat saliva in it?

show me		2013-01-09 03:49:08 PM

R.I.P

Shadow Blasko		2013-01-09 03:49:51 PM

mekkab: FTFA:
He, his nephew and his wife _who was not bitten but got the animal's blood on her _ have already started rabies treatments.

THIS IS NOT HOW RABIES WORKS! It is transmitted through saliva!

Doesn't really matter

If there was a serious rabies risk in my area, I would encourage everyone to have rabies prophylaxis treatment done. Most insurance will cover it, and it means that -if- you get bit you just a "top up" shot and one in the bite wound, instead of the full series

Especially if I had small children who were more likely to do something silly like picking up a bat on the ground.

Darth_Lukecash		2013-01-09 03:51:03 PM

theotherwhitemeat: I've been through the rabies treatments.......sucks!! Def. feel bad for these folks!

I thought they had a new way of doing those, instead of the stomach shots.

The water was cold		2013-01-09 03:51:05 PM

Galactica Actual: Are bobcats native to New England? I had always thought of them as a Pacific Northwestern animal.

They're in Oklahoma. Dad was bowhunting for deer when a bobcat ran towards him. "Bob's" head ended up above our fireplace for about two years, until Mother insisted that it be removed. He had a second, very popular, career above the cash register in our pool hall (NOT "billiard parlor").

dkimball		2013-01-09 03:51:17 PM

Rabies is the closest thing we have to the Zombie Apocolypse

namegoeshere		2013-01-09 03:52:11 PM

adrift1827		2013-01-09 03:52:28 PM

Smoky Dragon Dish: That map lies. There are bobcat in NY, NJ, CT, etc...

Also OH and KY. Not quite sure if that's inside the non-bobcat zone on the map or not. Maybe it's outdated? I get the impression that the population is on the rise around here.

When I was a kid in Southwest OH, I found one on my uncle's (rural) street, dead from an apparent car strike. He's a hunter and it was apparently a rare enough sight for him that he quickly stopped what he was doing and hiked out to the street to see if I was full of crap.

I also once found a dead rare owl on the road. For that one a park ranger of some sort came to our house to verify what it was and took it back with him to have it mounted for display in the state park he worked at.

/maybe i spent too much time playing in the street as a kid?

Oblio13		2013-01-09 03:53:23 PM

mekkab: FTFA:
He, his nephew and his wife _who was not bitten but got the animal's blood on her _ have already started rabies treatments.

THIS IS NOT HOW RABIES WORKS! It is transmitted through saliva!

It can also be spread by brain tissue, and the guy shot it. Perhaps that's how they got it's blood on them. So post-exposure vaccinations would be a wise precaution.

The Angry Hand of God		2013-01-09 03:53:49 PM

How has no one posted this yet?

www.toptenz.net

killdawabbitt		2013-01-09 03:53:57 PM

That sucks. Hope they survive the infection.

show me		2013-01-09 03:54:28 PM

dkimball: Rabies is the closest thing we have to the Zombie Apocolypse

As far as you know, Mr. Kimball. As far as you know...yet...

badLogic		2013-01-09 03:54:54 PM

If it had been a cougar, the 15 year old nephew could have nailed it instead.

Stone Meadow		2013-01-09 03:56:17 PM

blatz514: mekkab: FTFA:
He, his nephew and his wife _who was not bitten but got the animal's blood on her _ have already started rabies treatments.

THIS IS NOT HOW RABIES WORKS! It is transmitted through saliva!

She made out with the dead bobcat?

She made out with her husband?

1. Rabid bobcat bites man, transmitting rabies via saliva.
2. Man gets sympathy sex from wife...goes down/French kisses her.
3. Woman gets expensive/painful shots series to prevent needless rabies death.

Ta da!

Oblio13		2013-01-09 03:58:04 PM

Shadow Blasko:
... Rabies treatment shots are no worse than any others I have had, and I had to get my first series in my knuckle where I was bitten.

Its no big deal.

/works around rabies vector species.. gets shots at -least- annually and the same ones you have to get if I get bitten.

//just less of them

Pre-exposure shots are like any other vaccination. The post-exposure series, however, begins with large, deep injections of globulin. Which cost $8,000 apiece, by the way. (Just finished the series last month after a raccoon bite.)

mainstreet62		2013-01-09 04:00:56 PM

Dwedit: Would not buy again.

The Angry Hand of God: How has no one posted this yet?

[www.toptenz.net image 408x379]

I didn't get it at first, thanks for posting that image. Makes much more sense now.

adrift1827		2013-01-09 04:02:52 PM

Shadow Blasko: mekkab: FTFA:
He, his nephew and his wife _who was not bitten but got the animal's blood on her _ have already started rabies treatments.

THIS IS NOT HOW RABIES WORKS! It is transmitted through saliva!

Doesn't really matter

If there was a serious rabies risk in my area, I would encourage everyone to have rabies prophylaxis treatment done. Most insurance will cover it, and it means that -if- you get bit you just a "top up" shot and one in the bite wound, instead of the full series

Especially if I had small children who were more likely to do something silly like picking up a bat on the ground.

About 3-4 years ago I was de-winterizing my boat with my brother-in-law. I heard him on the roof cussing up a storm and about died laughing when I realized that he had just unzipped a canvas cover to the bimini top and about a thousand little field mouse-sized bats fell/flew out onto & around him along with a winter worth of said bat's waste.

If your comment has any truth to it, I'm suddenly very glad that story doesn't have a very bad ending for him or me. I took the canvas the rest of the way down, threw it in the lake to rinse out most of the nasties, then bagged it up in garbage bags and took it home with me to wash it at the local laundromat. I'm not not quite sure how ill-advised that might have been.

Red_Fox		2013-01-09 04:02:56 PM

theotherwhitemeat: I've been through the rabies treatments.......sucks!! Def. feel bad for these folks!

Is it true that it's a big farking needle in your belly?

durbnpoisn		2013-01-09 04:05:02 PM

I'm glad th had the good sense to start treatment right away. It seemed pretty obvious that thing had rabies. I mean, everyone knows they are vicous. But they aren't normally THAT agressive!

Smoky Dragon Dish		2013-01-09 04:06:05 PM

Oblio13: mekkab: FTFA:
He, his nephew and his wife _who was not bitten but got the animal's blood on her _ have already started rabies treatments.

THIS IS NOT HOW RABIES WORKS! It is transmitted through saliva!

It can also be spread by brain tissue, and the guy shot it. Perhaps that's how they got it's blood on them. So post-exposure vaccinations would be a wise precaution.

Look, if Mekkab wants to be an asshat and not get a rabies shot when rabid bobcat brain tissue and blood splatters all over him, fine.... it's his body and his decision.

jfivealive		2013-01-09 04:07:49 PM

Not Again!

jfivealive		2013-01-09 04:08:25 PM

jfivealive: Not Again!

Oh its a follow up, jokes on me!

Smoky Dragon Dish		2013-01-09 04:11:42 PM

jfivealive: jfivealive: Not Again!

Oh its a follow up, jokes on me!

I think you just killed the thread. This is why we can't have nice things.

mekkab		2013-01-09 04:15:16 PM

Smoky Dragon Dish: Look, if Mekkab wants to be an asshat and not get a rabies shot when rabid bobcat brain tissue and blood splatters all over him, fine.... it's his body and his decision.

Thank you, Smoky Dragon DIsh.

At least someone is looking out for my interests!

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