A Country Girls' Perspective

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I've encountered many wild animals in the years I've lived in rural Pennsylvania. The variety of wildlife in the Northern Pennsylvania area is impressive. Mes,

I, being the bleeding heart that I am, never stopped to consider that any one of the wounded animals I've happened upon, and tried to rescue, may be infected with rabies. Fortunately for me, none of them have been infected.

It's common in these parts to see bats, foxes, skunks, raccoon, feral cats, coyotes, and wild dogs from time to time. Our old neighbor rescued a baby raccoon whose mother was killed in a car accident. At a certain age, she released it into our woods close to the house. One day it sat and screeched at us on our porch. I got my son to fetch a broom to get him away from the grandkids. His previous owner claimed he just wanted to play, but I wasn't seeing that.


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Any one of these mammals can contract rabies. It's required by law to vaccinate your pets for rabies.

A year ago there were several peacocks in the nearby woods. Those peacocks belonged to a local farmer and pose no threat regarding rabies, but were a pleasant sight to see as we drove by. I'll take peacocks over the skunk that got our dog a few weeks ago.

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