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Cats get vaccinated against rabies. I doubt there's one for racoons.
Uh, the rabies vaccine is the same regardless of species.
And there are programs to distribute bait laced with oral vaccines to target, among other animals, racoons. So I guess they are vaccinated, at least in some areas. TIL.
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> The people who wrote this article seem out of touch with the topic they chose to pretend to be experts about? This is quickly becoming the norm for experts, unfortunately. I keep seeing more an more people with educational expertise in something that they have zero hands-on or practical experience with. I remember being at a social event once and chatting with someone who was a business professor at any Ivy League…
> I remember being stunned that students would pay over $60k a year to learn about business from someone who'd never worked for or started a business. Were you stunned that your parents paid lots of money to put you in front of educators from kindergarten to college? Why would you restrict yourself to learning from one businessman when you can get learn from an educator who has distilled the experiences of hundreds i…
(MBA, anyone?)
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Is there something that makes raccoons different than say cats in terms of rabies?
Cats get vaccinated against rabies. I doubt there's one for racoons.
If a breach occurs they also will trap raccoons and vaccinate them by injection in the area of the breach.
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We neuter male cats so they don’t spray piss everywhere and spay female cats so they don’t go into heat and scream incessantly to be let outside. Both procedures seem slightly more invasive than removing a scent gland in a skunk, given that it removes the sex organs that secrete hormones and changes their behavior for the rest of their life. It’s possible that a skunk gets anxious when it tries to spray and nothing c…
No, we neuter and spay so we are not overrun with feral cats . Not to control where they piss.
If dogs started out as wolves and ended up as English bulldogs, imagine how stupid raccoons will eventually look.
> Oddly, tameness has also long been associated with traits such as a shorter face, a smaller head, floppy ears and white patches on fur—a pattern that Charles Darwin noted in the 1800s. Hmm, so evolutionary pressure of existing around humans makes animals cuter. I wonder why we find these features endearing?
Those features activates the same areas of our brain that babies' faces activate.
Feeling that something is "cute" is the evolutionary way that our brain is using to make us care of our kids.
Raccoons have been living literally inside of houses for centuries. One was kept as a pet in Jamestown Virginia in the 1600s. Another lived in the White House in the 1900s. Surely, not a decade has passed between have there been NO domesticated raccoons in the US? If living near humans changes animals, that started at least 25,000 years ago here in North America. Not recently. My neighbors had a pet raccoon growing u…
> The people who wrote this article seem out of touch with the topic they chose to pretend to be experts about? This is quickly becoming the norm for experts, unfortunately. I keep seeing more an more people with educational expertise in something that they have zero hands-on or practical experience with. I remember being at a social event once and chatting with someone who was a business professor at any Ivy League…
People have been trying to make the house raccoon a thing: https://old.reddit.com/r/raccoons From what I remember spending time on this topic, raccoons need super challenging locks as toys and TONS of engagement from their keepers because they get bored easily and bored raccoons == ultra destructive raccoons. Also, rabies.
Assuming you are starting with a wild raccoon, get one from a population that is not in the eastern parts of the US or Canada and rabies is unlikely. Here in Washington state for example there have been no documented cases of rabies in any wild raccoon in at least 60 years. Same goes for all other wild terrestrial mammals here.