• @WoolyNelson
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    1332 months ago

    I see the raccoon and all I think is this.

  • @[email protected]
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    742 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      262 months ago

      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.

        • @RebekahWSD
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          122 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 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
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      112 months ago

      They’re turning the freaking racoons gray!

  • @[email protected]
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    352 months ago

    If my pets are any indicator of attempting this with animals they’ll gobble up the meal and leave the medication on the ground.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      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.

      • @MudSkipperKisser
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        102 months ago

        What a horrible way to live, to be suspicious of cheese

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        22 months ago

        Peanut Butter camo unlocked!

  • @TellusChaosovich
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    292 months ago

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

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    There’s 1 major problem with this. What if a poor person without health insurance finds this? What if someone picks it up off the ground and gets cured of rabies without ruining their life in medical debt? Won’t someone think of the shareholders? How will capitalism survive if people start picking these up off the ground instead of paying $60k per pill?

    /s

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      I doubt many people actually pay that much for their meds.

      They’ll go broke instead, eternally in debt, unable to save up enough or get a credit for, say, buying a house to save on horribly inflated rent prices, always living in fear of being fired and ending up homeless until they get arrested for not having a home to sleep in, sent to for-profit prisons at the expense of other taxpayers, possibly even put to work as a legal slave…

      …but I can’t imagine the pharma company does actually get all of those 60k on average. Maybe 20k-40k - hardly enough to pay their shareholders, let alone their insurance subsidiaries’ employees for the soul-crushing job of listening to patients breaking down because the insurance won’t cover their child’s life-saving treatment for some reason rep, patient, doctor and executives all know is bullshit.

  • @[email protected]
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    172 months ago

    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
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      142 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.

  • @General_Effort
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    142 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

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

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      72 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.

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      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.