yes, when Stali was infectious Fox bit him on the rump. I was freaked about that too, but they told me it was almost impossible for fox to get it that way. he would have to somehow bite the exact spot where the virus was travelling up nerve fluid and then get it in an open sore. Its very interesting the way rabies wiorks, and from my experience I feel rabies is responsible for the whole "wolfman" horror legend. Because I caught myself looking at night creatures, at the wilderness adjoining my property in a whole new menacing way while I was undergoing my rabies experience. it was like I became aware that a "monster" could lurk out there... a monster that could turn a man or furry critter into something unimagineably horrifying...
a man told me he worked for the health dept and went out on a rabies call. he said he somehow got there before the sheriff or animal control and said "I drove up to the sight of a very small, very elderly woman, standing with a live fox hanging suspended from her lower lip by his teeth, snarling and just shredding her face, shoulders and chest with his claws. her clothes were in tatters, she was drenched in blood from head to toe, screaming bloody murder and begging for help". He said as he watched in horror the fox fell to the ground, with her lower lip in his mouth and then immediately started clawing back up her leg again. There are two type of rabies reactions, stupor, and violent. If Stali had started getting violent, I didnt know him, I would have thought he was a wild heathen and when he died, i would have probably been relieved thinking he killed hisself or something. I cant handle even a nominally "wild" horse, can you imagine a horse being violently deranged?? No way could I have got him in a trailer, etc. It could have been very bad for me. As it was it was bad enough, but I realize later I had some lucky breaks on the whole deal. janice -- yipie tie yie yo
