While i do think humans caring for nature is best done by not touching it, this is one thing humans can do for nature.
We’ve been doing this on the european continent. In the form of fish heads carrying the vaccine. Almost no rabies cases ever.
Nature needs agency.
Much of Europe (ie the rich parts) is free of terrestrial rabies because of such programs. Bats really get around, though.
Rabioli rabioli give me the formuoli
I see the raccoon and all I think is this.
In my heart, I knew this comment would already be here.
Came here to post exactly this. 🤣🤌🏽
Those poor raccoons. I don’t know what an autistic raccoon looks like, but these scientists should be ashamed of their… hmmm. I actually have no idea what the conspiracy behind animal vaccinations would be. Big science profiting just doesn’t fit right.
They’re turning the freaking racoons gray!
I used to work in veterinary medicine, and there are plenty of vaccine conspiracies in the pet owning community. They cause everything from seizures, to allergies, to autoimmune diseases, and more, according to some of these people. Breeders are a huge contributor to this, which leads to plenty of arguments with vets and pets running around unvaccinated.
It’s expensive to get litters of puppies vaccinated, and whackadoodle (I used “doodle” for a reason) theories are a great cover for why you are sending home a puppy with zero medical history outside of hand written worming dates. Unfortunately, it’s harder to educate people when it’s way cheaper to believe bullshit.
I guess all those things are worse than your pet getting West Nile disease, rabies, distemper, or any of the various diseases pets can get.
Some horse people have stopped giving their horses vaccines because " Wild horses don’t need them"(wild horses don’t live as long dumbfuck) and west nile is going rampant. Seeing a horse with west Nile so bad they need to be euthanized is not something I’d wish on anyone. It goes neurological in them and causes loss of coordination and seizures.
Are there autistic animals?
“All cats are autistic” or so the joke goes.
Don’t like being touched except on their terms, don’t like eye contact, very particular about food, will screech if overwhelmed.
For actual info and not the joke, unsure. Not a vet, I just ask the vet weird questions! Because I’m autistic.
There’s no reason why not, at least in mammals.
Though, i think i read once about how human neurons can connect to 7 instead of 4 (or som.) others compared to other hominids, with the price of higher rate of neurological issues.
Damn you Bill Gates!!
[shakes fist at sky?]
Babe wake up, new forbidden snack just dropped
More like free-healthcare just dropped!
Literally from the sky as well
They dropped these in my mother in law’s suburban neighborhood. In her back yard. With no warning. My dog found and ate one, so it had me googling what the hell my dog had just eaten and wondering if she was going to die. Luckily we didn’t have any toddlers playing in the back yard.
Lucky as hell, your rabid dog would have fucked em up
If my pets are any indicator of attempting this with animals they’ll gobble up the meal and leave the medication on the ground.
I snuck meds into cheese for my dog one time, and she is now forever suspicious of any and all cheese whether it’s cubed, shredded, sliced, whatever.
What a horrible way to live, to be suspicious of cheese
Peanut Butter camo unlocked!
Did they really just cover the whole blister thing with fishmeal? I mean including the plastic?
Yeah the raccoons eat the fishmeal then peel back the protective backing, retrieve the pill and don’t wash it before eating it.
NO! Everyone knows those things are unopenable without scissors or a hammer or an RPG or something.
Sounds like a great way to evolve vaccine-resistant rabies
If you mean an Immune escape that is not a real problem for rabies because that virus has a slow evolution as you can tell from the fact that the same vaccines that were used in the 80s are still used today. Compare that for example to flu or Covid-19 vaccines where even two year old vaccine types are considered outdated and not used anymore.
