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Arkansas

LuvNewcastle

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7. They can carry rabies and not show signs.

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 30, 2019, 07:41 AM

Oct 2019

They can be vicious, too. If you ever get too close to one and get bitten, your doctor will have to send you for rabies shots. I don't want those things anywhere around me any more than I would want to be in a room with rattlesnakes.

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Masked marauders: Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP

So, they weren't razorbacks but racoons all along. n/t 5X Oct 2019 #1

Rabies while you read. How lovely. LuvNewcastle Oct 2019 #2

Oh stop. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2019 #3

They can carry rabies and not show signs. LuvNewcastle Oct 2019 #7

Welllll...I still like them. 😊 BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2019 #9

Maybe there wasn't anything on tv? BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2019 #4

"Reading brings us unknown friends" - Honore Balzac mfcorey1 Oct 2019 #5

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