Beware of wildlife!

This news story sounds almost like a bad comedy sketch. A woman was attacked by a rabid fox while jogging and she ran a mile back to her car with the animal clamped onto her arm the whole way. Then she drove herself to the hospital. Can you imagine what was going through her mind during all this? Hope she's OK.

Yeah, she was thinking "What a nice looking new neck warmer"

She's lucky that no one threw red paint on her for wearing fur...

"Nothing like a good piece of hickory".

Whether running, hiking, walking, biking, whatever, I always have at least a walking stick with me, and this is one reason why. Rabid fox clamped onto stick is much preferable to clamped onto arm. If stick gets rabies, I will put it down and get another.

Now comes the needle in the belly routine for a while.

Pale Rider?

I a mile she couldn't find one nice sized rock to smack that little guy with???

i just read the whole story on another site..she was jogging and saw it in a clearing..backed away and in got her by the leg,tried to strangle it and it got her arm..back at the car she
got it off and wrapped it in a shirt..tossed in trunk..both her and the wildlife officer who was involved --and got bit--got shots..thats the first rabid animal story i have see i awhile..
i could see that the run to the car was a better choice than fighting with it in the field..wraping it up..taking it with her..all cool thinking dispite a crazed fox snapping away at you.

Tough chick. Someone should invite her to the ETS forum...

Yeah. Anyone who has the presence of mind to want to keep the animal so it can be tested for rabies...well, she's tougher than me. I probably would've run away screaming like a little girl (no offense to little girls).

Well, that's good news. I don't like them long needles no-how.

She was on CNN this morning, and they interviewed the folks camping near where it occured, Prescott AZ, I think.

The campers were kinda comical- they wondered what all the hubbub was about........

That had to look peculiar to anybody else in the parking lot. Girl jogs up. Fox latched onto arm. Opens trunk. Throws fox in. Gets into car. Drives off. I know I'd be doing a double-take if I saw that one unfold.

I`m interested in the cause myself... crazy store though.

Yeah. Anyone who has the presence of mind to want to keep the animal so it can be tested for rabies...well, she's tougher than me. I probably would've run away screaming like a little girl (no offense to little girls). [/quote]

Having worn the "bite sleeve"and fought trained German Shepherds, I PROMISE this was no easy task.

One only has to look at my hands and arms to see where the dog got the wrong arm.

We had two GSDs start fighting at the same time my DD came out to pet the dogs. (age 3 at the time) I dove between her and them while DW took her inside. 52 puncture wounds later (36 of those major), I learned NOT to have two dominate (alpha) females in the same yard. Even if only dog sitting one for three days.

Kudos to this lady for toughing it out, but maybe a can of postman's mace could be fit onto he MP3 carrier.

We sure this wasn't Sue?

THANK GOD, NO!

She makes me look like a crying wimp (no offense to wimps )!

The vet I used to work for described a multiple-month rabies outbreak in CA when he worked there. It gave me the heebiejeebies galore! He said the rabid cats were the worst.

Sue

There was an outbreak in upstate NY in the early 90's. Players included a child attacked by a rabid otter, a couple of raccoons and foxes, and a farmer exposed to transmission by cow drool. It was sorta interesting for a while-we were using a 3 shot series of vaccinations as I recall. Note to Benjammin-the injections do not hurt as long as you hold still while we screw them in-

"...the rabid cats were the worst..."

Bad news for Blast...

I knew that it couldn't have been Sue. If it were her, the article would have said something about the woman using a road flare to chase off the rabid fox (the same flares that she can't carry in her work vehicle), and then using the lit flare to cauterize and sterilize her bite wounds so that she would be safe from rabies. Now that would've been Sue!

WTF?? Nobody had a knife or stick?? Any wild animal that did that to me would be a goner...LOL

I heard this morning on the top of hour radio news, that Arizona may break its previous rabies outbreak record. This has been projected since May of this year and it trending accurate.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/11/08/20081108rabies1108.html

Sounds like it's time for agencies to consider dropping rabies vaccine impregnated feed along the transtition zones. They had to do that a couple years ago along the Appalachian corridor due to an outbreak among raccoons and such. Don't know how effective that was.