Devil’s advocate. The “owner” of peanut was taking in wild animals without permits. Never bothered to even try… They find peanut who bites an officer. Now that officer can just take this weird dude’s word that peanut is not rabid, or he can wait till he’s symptomatic, at which point he’s dead. The only fast way to test for rabies is with brain tissue. It was either kill peanut or risk the officer drying of rabies.
Blame it all on the people who took in a wild animal without telling anyone and then exploited him for views
Don’t they usually just administer the rabies vaccine anyways just in case? As I understand it, even with the testing they’ll give the first dose because there can be bad effects if they wait for the test results before then.
Is the rabies vaccine still extremely painful and consisting of like 30 shots? Or is that outdated?
The squirrel was gonna die no matter what. It couldn’t be sent back to the idiot taking wild animals and running an unlicensed online zoo. And it couldn’t be returned to the wild. And it had already shown signs of aggression, so it probably wouldn’t be accepted by a zoo.
That was a shit story and that department was 100% out of line. but I don’t think it was the police doing anything but helping a department with a search warrant.
At first I felt bad then I realized the guy had that squirrel for 7 years and never got a permit or anything. Bro come on how do you not get the paperwork for an animal that you make a living off.
The department wasn’t out of line. You can’t just take in wild animals without a permit or telling anyone. And once peanut bit the officer they had no choice. Brain tissue is the only fast way to test for rabies. It was that or risk the officer drying. I sure wouldn’t take the “owner’s” word and risk my life.
Anyways, peanuts owner was a shit head who got peanut killed
They were fine to take the pets but they should have been careful not to get bit. They should have informed the person before killing his pet. But you’re right ultimately I don’t have much sympathy for the guy since he had plenty of time to sort this out and not let it get to this point.
The question is why you need a permit in the first place for a animal that lives close to humans anyway, the raccoon thing I was made aware of is another story but would also have been better handled with talking to him.
Its an adopted wild animal it needs to be registered and vaccinated that makes sense to me. But yeah it’s insane how poorly they treated the situation. Idk how they can justify the process.
Yeah the vaccination part is fine, the registration is questionable but OK and whatever they did was beyond stupid.
Because it is a wild animal that can carry rabies.
The way it played out is the squirrel bit someone. The only way to check for rabies and be 100% certain is to cut the brain. Which obviously doesn’t lead to the animal being alive anymore. But at the end of the day, a squirrel’s life is less important than that of a human, so it had to be done.
Humans can also technically carry rabies.
And also you can begin the immunization for rabies even if you don’t know if the animal has it or not, its the same as getting it as a preventative measure, wich should be required for animal control in general anyway.
Squirrels tend not to be vectors for rabies. I got shredded by a squirrel my cat brought in that I thought was dead. The doctor shrugged me off and sent me home with some antibiotics.
Squirrels don’t consume rabies vectors, so they’d have to be bitten by a bat with rabies first if they have it.
If the rest of those turned their crimes into social media hustles, the cops would have a much easier time.
