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[–] WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 135 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I see the raccoon and all I think is this.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 31 points 9 months ago

Me looking at that rabioli

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago

Came here to post exactly this. 🤣🤌🏽

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

In my heart, I knew this comment would already be here.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 80 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are there autistic animals?

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

"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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

They're turning the freaking racoons gray!

[–] buttfarts@lemy.lol 8 points 9 months ago

Damn you Bill Gates!!

[shakes fist at sky?]

[–] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Babe wake up, new forbidden snack just dropped

[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

More like free-healthcare just dropped!

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That's what we in "the business" refer to as a "ground score"

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

Literally from the sky as well

[–] TellusChaosovich@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lucky as hell, your rabid dog would have fucked em up

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

While i do think humans caring for nature is best done by not touching it, this is one thing humans can do for nature.

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

We've been doing this on the european continent. In the form of fish heads carrying the vaccine. Almost no rabies cases ever.

[–] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The notion that human beings are separate and apart from the natural world is colonialist nonsense.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes, but also no. In a very literal sense, human beings are animals, and our modification of the world is technically the same kind of thing as, like, a bird building a nest. But I think there is some utility in distinguishing between human activities and non-human activities. We are uniquely capable of altering the environment in ways that no other creature can.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not sure if we are on the same page.

While managing woods, etc. has some validity, we do it for us to be more convenient. Infestations due to dead wood and forest fires do have their natural order.

And "humans being separate from nature": We do like to create our ideal environments, like beavers. Be it due to us having next to no fur or it being a widespread trait in mammals, who knows. But humans affecting every ecosystem with their machines and being everywhere should either not do that (like some tribes) or not being everywhere.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

Nature needs agency.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Much of Europe (ie the rich parts) is free of terrestrial rabies because of such programs. Bats really get around, though.

[–] blubfisch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did they really just cover the whole blister thing with fishmeal? I mean including the plastic?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

Rabioli rabioli give me the formuoli

[–] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

I mean unless rabies is completely eradicated you're still going to need to seek treatment immediately if an animal bites you unless you want to risk dying the most horrible death imaginable.