Three more rabid skunks found in Lake County

• OneBuckeye

  

  http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2011/10/11/news/doc4e9450858bf58292500684.txt
  
  

  The Ohio Department of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services have confirmed that three Lake County skunks have recently tested positive for rabies, the Lake County General Health District announced.
  
  A total of three dogs were potentially exposed to the rabid skunks, though they were all current on their rabies vaccines. However, the dogs will undergo a 45-day quarantine for observation.
  
  These skunks — found in Painesville, Mentor-on-the-Lake, and Mentor — were collected and tested between Sept. 28 and Oct. 3. A total of five skunks have been found with rabies in the county this year.
  
  Like other rabid skunks in the past, these skunks are believed to have been infected with the raccoon strain of rabies and is part of the wider raccoon rabies epidemic in the county since 2004.
  
  With the addition of these three skunks, 10 animals with the raccoon strain of rabies have been found this year in Northeast Ohio, the 18th since 2008 and the 141st since the outbreak began in 2004.
  
  Additional rabid raccoons in 2011 have been found in Ashtabula (three), Mahoning (one) and Trumbull (one) counties, all near the Pennsylvania border.
  
  Lake County has not had as many total animals with the raccoon strain of rabies since 2008 when there were four positive raccoons and three positive skunks.
  
  The county also has not had this many positive skunks since 2007 when nine were found. In 2011, almost 7 percent (five out of 72) of all Lake County skunks tested have been found to be rabid.

  
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• gut

  You gotta be one dumb mofo to go near a rabid skunk!
• BR1986FB

  When I came home drunk from the bars one night I went to get into my apartment. I lived right in the corner of the "L" shaped building. As I'm fumbling for my keys, out of the corner of my eye I see a skunk come around the corner. In a panic I start fumbling faster and that little bastard decides to rush me. I barely got the key turned and dove into my apartment before he got to me. That shit will sober you up quick. Soaking in a bath tub full of tomato juice drunk as Hell at 4am probably wouldn't be at the top of my list.
• Fab1b

  

  BR1986FB;930541 wrote:When I came home drunk from the bars one night I went to get into my apartment. I lived right in the corner of the "L" shaped building. As I'm fumbling for my keys, out of the corner of my eye I see a skunk come around the corner. In a panic I start fumbling faster and that little bastard decides to rush me. I barely got the key turned and dove into my apartment before he got to me. That shit will sober you up quick. Soaking in a bath tub full of tomato juice drunk as Hell at 4am probably wouldn't be at the top of my list.

  Instead of trying to beat the lil bastard into the apartment why didn't you just high tail it the other way and let it pass through? Of course in the drunken state surprised you didn't tell it to bring it on! LOL good story bro
• BR1986FB

  Fab1b;930543 wrote:Instead of trying to beat the lil bastard into the apartment why didn't you just high tail it the other way and let it pass through? Of course in the drunken state surprised you didn't tell it to bring it on! LOL good story bro

  The problem is that the apartment formed a mini "L" and then wrapped around a courtyard. Either I get in that apartment or if I run he has me cornered in the courtyard. That wouldn't have ended well. Surprisingly, skunk is one of my favorite smells but not on me.
• Scarlet_Fever

  

  BR1986FB;930550 wrote:The problem is that the apartment formed a mini "L" and then wrapped around a courtyard. Either I get in that apartment or if I run he has me cornered in the courtyard. That wouldn't have ended well. Surprisingly, skunk is one of my favorite smells but not on me.

  I used to feel that way too until last August my dog got sprayed and I didn't realize until I opened the door and he ran through the house and up on my bed. I almost vomit at the sheer smell of dead ones (which there seems to be a new one on the road every day on my way to work). It takes weeks to get that smell out.
• j_crazy

  

  Just took a shit. Stunk like a rabid skunk after getting hit by a car and baking roadside for 5 days.
• sonofsam

  

  j_crazy;930972 wrote:Just took a shit. Stunk like a rabid skunk after getting hit by a car and baking roadside for 5 days.

  I got you beat. the rabid skunk I caught ATE the shit I took after eating one of his friends that was hit by a car and baking along the roadside for SIX days...
• j_crazy

  

  sonofsam;930974 wrote:I got you beat. the rabid skunk I caught ATE the shit I took after eating one of his friends that was hit by a car and baking along the roadside for SIX days...

  
  Winner.
• sonofsam

  

  j_crazy;930976 wrote:Winner.

  Not really... My stomach hurts
• Steel Valley Football

  Most people aren't aware that skunks get rabies from raccoons when they are gang raped as part of a raccoon gang initiation. It's not just a big city problem any more either.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Who let Gibby out of his cage?
• sonofsam

  

  Steel Valley Football;931437 wrote:Most people aren't aware that skunks get rabies from raccoons when they are gang raped as part of a raccoon gang initiation. It's not just a big city problem any more either.

  I read that... They also get it from sharing dirty meals...