Jun 27, 2022 10:33 PM
Devi8tor
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oops
mistakes_were_made
squirrel
wcgw
caught_on_camera
DethKap
"Found" more trying to get fake internet points and paid the price.
woozle
that. that could happen.
fragglestckcar
Better record this to put on social media before I do anything else. What an idiot.
codenameRadical
"I found this animal outside. You know, where animals fucking /are/? Then I took it."
Deathtospam
Boy howdy, that's a stupid thing to do.
goflyblind
TheRealArclight
ProfessorDumbass
Her next video...Left that guy in the middle of the road
DrivingTheBus
Squirrels do NOT appreciate rescue efforts. If you must try, at least wear leather work gloves.
Wardonk3y
Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you. The female Clark Griswald
EdoubleLIOdoubleT
Ha.... hahahaha... HAHA ..... HA! Seriously tho... is the squirrel ok?
amildpsychosis
Idiot!!!
TheMightyMoto
I hear Rabie shots suck.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
NOPE: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
beeeeeeerkaaaaa
Bitey fucker.
iusedtodream
A fair percentage of Americans are dumb as hell.
ITellBadPuns
And what have we learned? "Don't fuck with wild animals!"
Strangedays2024
There's a Ray Steven song about a squirrel going batshit in a church. It's fun!
Lulabel73
Why bring it into the car?!
MeshHatMafia
She acts like it’s rare to find squirrels in the middle of the road
UrsulatheArtist
Hopes she enjoys her shot series
Ah I see. I still thought it was standard treatment for people to get the series of shots.
Not for small rodents. You usually only get them for rabies vector species bites: bats, raccoons, skunks, foxes, unvaccinated dogs/cats, etc
nothingtolurkhere
Fyreworx
Enjoy the rabies shot
isetprettygirlsonfire
Bubonic plague is more likely
MapleSyrupMafia
But we already have a plague at home!!!
Muffinburgler
Rodents don't really carry rabies.
No, rodents can carry rabies, but they don’t transmit to humans…
RigoryMorty
If they do, they absolutely can transmit it. It's just so incredibly rare that they do.
They can carry rabies (any mammal can), but they just die so soon, they usually don’t have a chance to transmit it…
OriginalAndWitty
Nobody take this woman to Yellowstone. She'll be trying to pet the first bison she sees.
GhostBear3067
I am remembering at the Grand Canyon seeing a lady feeding the squirrels next to a sign saying not to do so.
HillOfBeans
Rabies shot STAT
Oh, ok good. Thanks
thatsbadmmkay
She mightve saved it from the heat on the asphalt, but you must also respect the animal. They arent just a photo op.
battleofhastings1066
If that squirrel is unable to handle the temperature while crossing a 30 ft wide slab of pavement, nature needs to take its course.
Uh okay psycho
Petedoit
It's not like rodents are known for biting or anything.
NotTheSameAnymore
How did she not know this would happen?
Hammertulski
Too much TikTok, not enough GoingOutside.
Kennleth
Is GoingOutside that new DLC I keep hearing about? How does one purchase it?
Don’t bother, it’s a rerelease. The new one is more expensive, smells terrible, and there’s a chance you could die. 2/10.
nkbaron808
That's why I say: "no teeth!"
almostalone
My grandfather used to tell a story about him having to kill a squirrel bcuz it wouldn't unclamp it's bite from his brothers thumb.
dabbycats
I know someone’s husband who had the same problem and he had to drown the squirrel in a bucket of water ?
then put it in the freezer so we could take it to the vet to make sure it didn’t happen. Fun times
Now that's horrible.
weidermeijer
… and your great-uncle always showed you the bite scars.
[deleted]
Some solid gold being served up down here in Comment Land today.
Hah! I'm going to giggle on that for a minute!
Tuomir
I remember hearing as a kid that if you're bitten by a squirrel, you need to break a stick behind you to fool it into letting go - that 1/2
a squirrel wouldn't let go until it heard bone break. That story went around the playground fast - neighborhood was full of squirrels. 2/2
Quessir
My uncle had my cousin and I help him remove rocks from a field, and he told us to be careful, telling us about when doing the same thing >
a rat jumped out from under one and latched into a man's neck. They could not remove it. He was taken to hospital and even the surgical >
staff could not remove it. He died. I followed him up on this a few months ago and he said it was true, he was there. Yeesh.
kodiak931155
Well a set of pliers can powder any rats skull and jaw so that cant be accurate
From what I remember they couldn't remove the teeth without doing too much damage, they'd obviously removed the rat. He still died.
YouWonTheGam3
>team couldn't remove it. So they sewed it on permanently. Now it's the mitochondria of his cell.
Quasime
1 how tf did you catch a squirrel? 2 why tf did you catch a squirrel? It's a wild animal, a rodent at that
nicelyvillainous
I think it might have been stunned by a car impact, and left there
executivedisfunction
Finally, someone not bringing down the Imgur collective IQ.
PWBoiler
When it gets extremely hot out, a dehydrated squirrel can get very docile. I suppose you could grab one when it’s like that.
Then be kind, give it water and leave it alone.
PajamaStripes
Maybe she didn't know what was wrong with it, just that it was sick? I mean, still stupid, but at least well intended?
ILoveSpicyPeople
I hate it when people make up these ridiculous narratives that everyone is good natured. She picked up a wild animal to post a fucking 1/
tiktok or IG reel. There was no good intention, just wanting fake internet points. Bad behavior under the false appearance of being good.
Yes. I know that. I’m just explaining how one MIGHT be able to catch a squirrel.
thatwastooclose
Gonna want a real quick rabies shot
holycannoli123
you mean all 16 of them
qtRaven
Squabies.
TheWeebleWobler
LOL quick
lilmookieesquire
i mean if she still has the bugger, take it into a vet for testing. It's better then getting a rabies shot in your gut.
whatsisname
You don't get rabies shots to your gut, you get them in your buttcheek. It's really no big deal as far as shots go, the major hassle
"No, the rabies vaccine has not been given in the stomach since the 1980s" thanks! TIL again.
is that they are expensive.
djmaskell
The only way to confirm rabies in an animal is to inspect the brain. And it takes a while, so you generally get rabies shots anyways.
bingotown
It takes about a day, two at most. You get results in plenty of time to start shots if needed.
Here in New York State at least.
And of course, the animal dies
TIL, thank you.
BigKyri
Yeah man, those humans carry all sorts of deseases.
n1ck3lod3on
Thank you. So much unwarranted rabies panic.
itsthevoiceman
I mean, of ALL the diseases to have warranted panic, rabies is pretty much THE thing. Effectively 100% kill rate.
Most people don't panic every time they get on an elevator just in case it crashes, y'know?
Right,but it's so hard to accidentally get and there's so much bad info(like getting it from squirrels)that it's almost not worth th anxiety
EleganceIsDead
True, you don't have to worry much about rabies, but both squirrels and chipmunks are known to carry Bubonic Plague. Lake Tahoe was closed>
>last year because they found chipmunks there carrying the Plague.
Absolutely! But all the rabies fear mongering comments are egregious…
Yeah but with the wide spread of stupid as expressed by things like AntiVax groups and now Roe v. Wade getting overturned are you surprised?
igglebotato
I mean, it says: "In all cases involving rodents, the [...] health department should be consulted before a decision is made". So ... Maybe.
There’s NEVER been a recorded case of squirrels transmitting rabies to humans: strong proof of not having to get rabies shots…
Sure, fine, but the link provided literally said "ask your local health department". I mean, I'd hate to be Patient Zero for this.
doombuggy
There has never been a proven rabies transmission from squirrels to humans. Small rodents rarely have rabies, almost never.
duckaroosky
Sure there's never been a proven case but do you really want to risk it?Personally I try not to have a medical journal case written about me
Don’t know why you got downvoted: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
RavenVG
The take away is you should still get a bite looked at by a doctor, even if it's not rabies.
Yes, but all these comments about getting rabies shots are egregious…
crushingbore
I recently learned it's because if a rabid animal gets them they rarely survive. Not any kind of magical rabies protection.
Hyndisfox
It has to do with the size of the animal. A tiny rodent would die from being bitten to be infected with rabies.
Why take the chance when rabies can literally kill you.
xMalkav
American Healthcare System?
PoppinLochNessHopster
A thing that small getting bitten by an animal that could carry it would be dead or severely visibly wounded
NoNameNoGameNoFame
They can carry the bubonic plague.
You're thinking of prairie dogs.
Rookvlees
That’s a tree squirrel in the video, but here in California, ground squirrels are indeed plague vectors.
OmnipotentBeing
blumpk1npie
It's very treatable now by medicines you might even have at home. You don't want it though obviously
Not rabies, though: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
If it was any other decade, I'd be content to trust "squirrels are not known to transmit rabies to humans" lol
TheWarHymn
Yep. Humans can also carry stuff like HIV, Covid, hepatitis, herpes...
wildwestpb
Fleas* carry bubonic plague.
That just sounds like squirrels carrying bubonic plague with extra steps.
ChemicalG
Squirrels can carry bubonic plague fleas
Buhbasaur
Is that really still a thing?
Yes, people still get it. Campgrounds and picnic areas around me often get closed due to plague outbreaks. From squirrel/chipmonk fleas
OnlyPositiveFavourites
Ironically, USA has quite a few bubonic plague cases. Less than Congo, Madagascar and Peru have the most. But USA too!
Just last year a 10yr old died in Colorado from the plague. The US has usually less than 10 cases per year or so. Most all of them are west
US (Rockies & westward, especially desert SW).
Vesane
Yes, and we had a question on it in the Royal Australian College of Physicians' Divisional Written Examination this year, so... Relevant?
(tbh we were confused why we were tested on it. Q was "What is the transmission vector for Yersinia pestis?" - answer is fleas, not rats)
*Australasian
DethKap
"Found" more trying to get fake internet points and paid the price.
woozle
that. that could happen.
fragglestckcar
Better record this to put on social media before I do anything else. What an idiot.
codenameRadical
"I found this animal outside. You know, where animals fucking /are/? Then I took it."
Deathtospam
Boy howdy, that's a stupid thing to do.
goflyblind
TheRealArclight
ProfessorDumbass
Her next video...Left that guy in the middle of the road
DrivingTheBus
Squirrels do NOT appreciate rescue efforts. If you must try, at least wear leather work gloves.
Wardonk3y
Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you. The female Clark Griswald
EdoubleLIOdoubleT
Ha.... hahahaha... HAHA ..... HA! Seriously tho... is the squirrel ok?
amildpsychosis
Idiot!!!
TheMightyMoto
I hear Rabie shots suck.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
NOPE: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
beeeeeeerkaaaaa
Bitey fucker.
iusedtodream
A fair percentage of Americans are dumb as hell.
ITellBadPuns
And what have we learned? "Don't fuck with wild animals!"
Strangedays2024
There's a Ray Steven song about a squirrel going batshit in a church. It's fun!
Lulabel73
Why bring it into the car?!
MeshHatMafia
She acts like it’s rare to find squirrels in the middle of the road
UrsulatheArtist
Hopes she enjoys her shot series
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
NOPE: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
UrsulatheArtist
Ah I see. I still thought it was standard treatment for people to get the series of shots.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Not for small rodents. You usually only get them for rabies vector species bites: bats, raccoons, skunks, foxes, unvaccinated dogs/cats, etc
nothingtolurkhere
Fyreworx
Enjoy the rabies shot
isetprettygirlsonfire
Bubonic plague is more likely
MapleSyrupMafia
But we already have a plague at home!!!
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
NOPE: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
Muffinburgler
Rodents don't really carry rabies.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
No, rodents can carry rabies, but they don’t transmit to humans…
RigoryMorty
If they do, they absolutely can transmit it. It's just so incredibly rare that they do.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
They can carry rabies (any mammal can), but they just die so soon, they usually don’t have a chance to transmit it…
OriginalAndWitty
Nobody take this woman to Yellowstone. She'll be trying to pet the first bison she sees.
GhostBear3067
I am remembering at the Grand Canyon seeing a lady feeding the squirrels next to a sign saying not to do so.
HillOfBeans
Rabies shot STAT
isetprettygirlsonfire
Bubonic plague is more likely
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
NOPE: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
HillOfBeans
Oh, ok good. Thanks
thatsbadmmkay
She mightve saved it from the heat on the asphalt, but you must also respect the animal. They arent just a photo op.
battleofhastings1066
If that squirrel is unable to handle the temperature while crossing a 30 ft wide slab of pavement, nature needs to take its course.
thatsbadmmkay
Uh okay psycho
Petedoit
It's not like rodents are known for biting or anything.
NotTheSameAnymore
How did she not know this would happen?
Hammertulski
Too much TikTok, not enough GoingOutside.
Kennleth
Is GoingOutside that new DLC I keep hearing about? How does one purchase it?
Hammertulski
Don’t bother, it’s a rerelease. The new one is more expensive, smells terrible, and there’s a chance you could die. 2/10.
nkbaron808
That's why I say: "no teeth!"
almostalone
My grandfather used to tell a story about him having to kill a squirrel bcuz it wouldn't unclamp it's bite from his brothers thumb.
dabbycats
I know someone’s husband who had the same problem and he had to drown the squirrel in a bucket of water ?
dabbycats
then put it in the freezer so we could take it to the vet to make sure it didn’t happen. Fun times
almostalone
Now that's horrible.
weidermeijer
… and your great-uncle always showed you the bite scars.
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[deleted]
Hammertulski
Some solid gold being served up down here in Comment Land today.
almostalone
Hah! I'm going to giggle on that for a minute!
Tuomir
I remember hearing as a kid that if you're bitten by a squirrel, you need to break a stick behind you to fool it into letting go - that 1/2
Tuomir
a squirrel wouldn't let go until it heard bone break. That story went around the playground fast - neighborhood was full of squirrels. 2/2
Quessir
My uncle had my cousin and I help him remove rocks from a field, and he told us to be careful, telling us about when doing the same thing >
Quessir
a rat jumped out from under one and latched into a man's neck. They could not remove it. He was taken to hospital and even the surgical >
Quessir
staff could not remove it. He died. I followed him up on this a few months ago and he said it was true, he was there. Yeesh.
kodiak931155
Well a set of pliers can powder any rats skull and jaw so that cant be accurate
Quessir
From what I remember they couldn't remove the teeth without doing too much damage, they'd obviously removed the rat. He still died.
YouWonTheGam3
>team couldn't remove it. So they sewed it on permanently. Now it's the mitochondria of his cell.
Quasime
1 how tf did you catch a squirrel? 2 why tf did you catch a squirrel? It's a wild animal, a rodent at that
nicelyvillainous
I think it might have been stunned by a car impact, and left there
executivedisfunction
Finally, someone not bringing down the Imgur collective IQ.
PWBoiler
When it gets extremely hot out, a dehydrated squirrel can get very docile. I suppose you could grab one when it’s like that.
MapleSyrupMafia
Then be kind, give it water and leave it alone.
PajamaStripes
Maybe she didn't know what was wrong with it, just that it was sick? I mean, still stupid, but at least well intended?
ILoveSpicyPeople
I hate it when people make up these ridiculous narratives that everyone is good natured. She picked up a wild animal to post a fucking 1/
ILoveSpicyPeople
tiktok or IG reel. There was no good intention, just wanting fake internet points. Bad behavior under the false appearance of being good.
PWBoiler
Yes. I know that. I’m just explaining how one MIGHT be able to catch a squirrel.
thatwastooclose
Gonna want a real quick rabies shot
holycannoli123
you mean all 16 of them
qtRaven
Squabies.
TheWeebleWobler
LOL quick
lilmookieesquire
i mean if she still has the bugger, take it into a vet for testing. It's better then getting a rabies shot in your gut.
whatsisname
You don't get rabies shots to your gut, you get them in your buttcheek. It's really no big deal as far as shots go, the major hassle
lilmookieesquire
"No, the rabies vaccine has not been given in the stomach since the 1980s" thanks! TIL again.
whatsisname
is that they are expensive.
djmaskell
The only way to confirm rabies in an animal is to inspect the brain. And it takes a while, so you generally get rabies shots anyways.
bingotown
It takes about a day, two at most. You get results in plenty of time to start shots if needed.
bingotown
Here in New York State at least.
djmaskell
And of course, the animal dies
lilmookieesquire
TIL, thank you.
BigKyri
Yeah man, those humans carry all sorts of deseases.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
NOPE: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
n1ck3lod3on
Thank you. So much unwarranted rabies panic.
itsthevoiceman
I mean, of ALL the diseases to have warranted panic, rabies is pretty much THE thing. Effectively 100% kill rate.
n1ck3lod3on
Most people don't panic every time they get on an elevator just in case it crashes, y'know?
n1ck3lod3on
Right,but it's so hard to accidentally get and there's so much bad info(like getting it from squirrels)that it's almost not worth th anxiety
EleganceIsDead
True, you don't have to worry much about rabies, but both squirrels and chipmunks are known to carry Bubonic Plague. Lake Tahoe was closed>
EleganceIsDead
>last year because they found chipmunks there carrying the Plague.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Absolutely! But all the rabies fear mongering comments are egregious…
EleganceIsDead
Yeah but with the wide spread of stupid as expressed by things like AntiVax groups and now Roe v. Wade getting overturned are you surprised?
igglebotato
I mean, it says: "In all cases involving rodents, the [...] health department should be consulted before a decision is made". So ... Maybe.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
There’s NEVER been a recorded case of squirrels transmitting rabies to humans: strong proof of not having to get rabies shots…
igglebotato
Sure, fine, but the link provided literally said "ask your local health department". I mean, I'd hate to be Patient Zero for this.
doombuggy
There has never been a proven rabies transmission from squirrels to humans. Small rodents rarely have rabies, almost never.
duckaroosky
Sure there's never been a proven case but do you really want to risk it?Personally I try not to have a medical journal case written about me
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Don’t know why you got downvoted: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
RavenVG
The take away is you should still get a bite looked at by a doctor, even if it's not rabies.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Yes, but all these comments about getting rabies shots are egregious…
crushingbore
I recently learned it's because if a rabid animal gets them they rarely survive. Not any kind of magical rabies protection.
Hyndisfox
It has to do with the size of the animal. A tiny rodent would die from being bitten to be infected with rabies.
RavenVG
Why take the chance when rabies can literally kill you.
xMalkav
American Healthcare System?
PoppinLochNessHopster
A thing that small getting bitten by an animal that could carry it would be dead or severely visibly wounded
NoNameNoGameNoFame
They can carry the bubonic plague.
Muffinburgler
You're thinking of prairie dogs.
Rookvlees
That’s a tree squirrel in the video, but here in California, ground squirrels are indeed plague vectors.
OmnipotentBeing
blumpk1npie
It's very treatable now by medicines you might even have at home. You don't want it though obviously
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Not rabies, though: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html
ITellBadPuns
If it was any other decade, I'd be content to trust "squirrels are not known to transmit rabies to humans" lol
TheWarHymn
Yep. Humans can also carry stuff like HIV, Covid, hepatitis, herpes...
wildwestpb
Fleas* carry bubonic plague.
ITellBadPuns
That just sounds like squirrels carrying bubonic plague with extra steps.
ChemicalG
Squirrels can carry bubonic plague fleas
Buhbasaur
Is that really still a thing?
isetprettygirlsonfire
Yes, people still get it. Campgrounds and picnic areas around me often get closed due to plague outbreaks. From squirrel/chipmonk fleas
OnlyPositiveFavourites
Ironically, USA has quite a few bubonic plague cases. Less than Congo, Madagascar and Peru have the most. But USA too!
wildwestpb
Just last year a 10yr old died in Colorado from the plague. The US has usually less than 10 cases per year or so. Most all of them are west
wildwestpb
US (Rockies & westward, especially desert SW).
Vesane
Yes, and we had a question on it in the Royal Australian College of Physicians' Divisional Written Examination this year, so... Relevant?
Vesane
(tbh we were confused why we were tested on it. Q was "What is the transmission vector for Yersinia pestis?" - answer is fleas, not rats)
Vesane
*Australasian