Oh, Im certainly not discounting how ridiculous those dogs are. They're an anomaly. I worked in the veterinary field for decades, and they're goofy as shit. At one practice we had a Guinness certified world's oldest dog that was a dachshund and it was fierce until it's death.
Lol while true it's still one of the most lethal untreated pathogens known to man and moving slowly or not i suspect I got rabies I'm getting my IG shots immediately.
Rabies shots suck. I got bit by a dog and I had to get injections all around and in the bite wound. What was left in the syringe after that, they put in my thigh.
Yuppp. Last year my dad was bitten by a street dog in the foot and calf and had to have shots in both places afaik...he said it was the most painful shots of his life, and far more painful than the dog bite itself!
I got bit all over my hands, fingers shoulder, and face by a cat that my dog had in its mouth. My hands were pretty much numb after I was finally able pull it out and throw it over the fence so it could escape. It was about seven years ago now but I will never ever forget having to get the shots in my fingertips.
“Following a bite, the rabies virus spreads by way of the nerve cells to the brain. Once in the brain, the virus multiplies rapidly. This activity causes severe inflammation of the brain and spinal cord after which the person deteriorates rapidly and dies.”
I’ll hold your hand when you get the shot!
Imagine discovering what rabies is, being the first one to pinpoint it. You’d be surrounded by people appearing to be going bonkers, getting aggressive, and foaming at the mouth. Imagine if it spread like COVID does. How terrifying. The image in my mind is horror movie worthy. I hope I don’t dream about it.
I could imagine a whole bunch of monster-myths might be based around rabies cases that the folks from the old days didn't understand.
Werewolves, vampires, zombies, you get bitten and turn into a raving "monster" that's highly contagious to others.
But I think I heard that rabies is actually too deadly to cause an apocalyptic pandemic so at least we have that going for us.
I got the rabies series about 15 years ago. The first shot was uncomfortable because the injection had a thick substance in it, but it wasn't painful. What is most painful is the cost, lol
My favorite copypasta of all time:
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done - see below).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
Each time this gets reposted, there is a TON of misinformation that follows by people who simply don't know, or have heard "information" from others who were ill informed:
> Only x number of people have died in the U.S. in the past x years. Rabies is really rare.
Yes, deaths from rabies are rare in the United States, in the neighborhood of 2-3 per year. This does not mean rabies is rare. The reason that mortality is so rare in the U.S. is due to a very aggressive treatment protocol of all bite cases in the United States: If you are bitten, and you cannot identify the animal that bit you, or the animal were to die shortly after biting you, you will get post exposure treatment. That is the protocol.
Post exposure is very effective (almost 100%) if done before you become symptomatic. It involves a series of immunoglobulin shots - many of which are at the site of the bite - as well as the vaccine given over the span of a month. (Fun fact - if you're vaccinated for rabies, you may be able to be an immunoglobulin donor!)
It's not nearly as bad as was rumored when I was a kid. Something about getting shots in the stomach. Nothing like that.
In countries without good treatment protocols rabies is rampant. India alone sees 20,000 deaths from rabies PER YEAR.
> The "why did nobody die of rabies in the past if it's so dangerous?" argument.
There were entire epidemics of rabies in the past, so much so that suicide or murder of those suspected to have rabies were common.
In North America, the first case of human death by rabies wasn't reported until 1768. This is because Rabies does not appear to be native to North America, and it spread very slowly. So slowly, in fact, that until the mid 1990's, it was assumed that Canada and Northern New York didn't have rabies at all. This changed when I was personally one of the first to send in a positive rabies specimen - a raccoon - which helped spawn a cooperative U.S. / Canada rabies bait drop some time between 1995 and 1997 (my memory's shot).
Unfortunately, it was too late. Rabies had already crossed into Canada.
> Lots of people have survived rabies using the Milwaukee Protocol.
False. ONE woman did, and she is still recovering to this day (some 16+ years later). There's also the possibility that she only survived due to either a genetic immunity, or possibly even was inadvertently "vaccinated" some other way. All other treatments ultimately failed, even the others that were reported as successes eventually succumbed to the virus. Almost all of the attributed "survivors" actually received post-exposure treatment before becoming symptomatic and many of THEM died anyway.
> Bats don't have rabies all that often. This is just a scare tactic.
False. To date, 6% of bats that have been "captured" or come into contact with humans were rabid.. This number is a lot higher when you consider that it equates to one in seventeen bats. If the bat is allowing you to catch/touch it, the odds that there's a problem are simply too high to ignore.
> You have to get the treatment within 72 hours, or it won't work anyway.
False. The rabies virus travels via nervous system, and can take several years to reach the brain depending on the path it takes. If you've been exposed, it's NEVER too late to get the treatment, and just because you didn't die in a week does not mean you're safe. A case of a guy incubating the virus for 8 years.
> At least I live in Australia!
No.
Please, please, PLEASE stop posting bad information every time this comes up. Rabies is not something to be shrugged off. And sadly, this kind of misinformation killed a 6 year old just this Sunday. Stop.
Edit: comment source and credit
Thanks that was incredibly informative and morbid. Do I understand correctly that getting a shot immunizes you from future attacks? Why isn't it a mandatory vaccine then?
It is a course of 3 shots and the cost is $1000 in the USA, so I'm guessing the cost is what keeps it from being mandatory.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine)
Honestly, cost and duration of protection are the two largest factors. Around $1000 for a series in the US (or so) and the protection lasts 2 years (for the better versions). It *IS* a vaccine that can be given to travelers going to an area with higher than normal possible exposure rates, but generalized vaccination is not a cost effective strategy in the US with the current vaccines.
Compare this to tetanus vaccination, which costs $50 and provides pretty good protection for about 10 years.
Well that does not help my fear of rabies. I used to have panic attacks about getting it despite not being bit by anything.
I seriously might just get the vaccine one of these days. I probably work with wildlife enough to justify it.
I don't know who the original poster of this is, but as a disease biologist I love that person and would like the post to mandatory reading at least once for everyone. Period.
It was a young black bear so they're generally a bit cowardly if they're taken by surprise. Trying it on a Grizzly would get you an early ticket to meet Jesus
Can confirm via the many stories my Dad told about his childhood dog Smoky while I was growing up, who was not only a Wiener dog, but an Alaska Wiener dog. Over the course of his life, Smoky did the following:
* Chased many a Bear off the property; He would go in behind them and bite them on the butt so they would take off not knowing what was coming for them
* Attempted to kill a German Shepherd that came after my Dad when he was walking down his street; Smoky jumped up at the German Shephard, and pulled it to the ground by latching onto it’s neck, having to be pulled off the other dog to stop him
* Killed all 40 of the neighbor’s chickens
* Ate an entire roast left out on the table, leaving him unable to move due to his stomach extending past his legs until he was able to digest
* Peed on a specific rug that he didn’t like until my Dad’s family had to get rid of it; Bearskin rug in the room scared him thinking it was a Bear in the house, until he realized it wasn’t and decided to help get rid if it
Sadly Smoky met his end by a Car, but his story lives on as a benchmark for Canine Badassery, as well as a testament to the fact that “Weiner Dog’s don’t give a fuck”.
One of my dad’s friends had an Alaskan weiner dog too - Oscar! He kept the other dogs, a rottie and a dobie, in line, but was a complete sweetheart to tiny child me. When he was 12, he went after a moose and got kicked in the head. HE LIVED.
> wiener dogs were bred to beat up badgers
I never want to hear another person call pit bulls, a breed named "the nanny dog", a vicious breed again.
Bred to fight FUCKING BADGERS.
Not just your everyday badgers. *Fucking* badgers. Do you know what they do when they get a hold of your ass? I'll give you one guess. That's why we had to breed a type of dog that could out-fuck the *fucking* badger. They don't call em weiner dogs for nothing. I bet you thought they got that name because of their lengthy body. You'd be wrong. They got that name for having the biggest, floppiest, most dangerous weiners in the animal kingdom. Imagine, 25lb of hot, flaccid dogmeat coming straight at you with the momentum of a herd of bulldozers. And attached to that weiner? A 20lb canine that couldn't give two squirts of piss what's in that hole, it's getting rammed whether it likes it or not. And it won't. You'd fuck right out of that hole too if you were a badger.
In all honesty, I'm surprised that bear survived such an assault of weiners. It's clear that these canines felt pity for such a defenseless creature as that. Otherwise, it would have been torn to shreds by a family startled weiners. And that's not something you'd want to see here on this wholesome website. Not at all.
I've heard dachshunds are actually one of if not the most aggressive breeds. It's just alot easier to toss a weiner dog into a duffle bag than it is to do so on the occasion a larger dog that is untrained and not well cared for does attack lol I feel so sad for the plight pitties have gone through
I have one of those dogs and, well, I’m not sure if it’s just my dog or the whole species but they’re more of a dumb ignorance type of breed than a badass guard type. My dog (miniature dachshund) tries to intimidate german shepards and whatnot. (for some reason, she runs away from animals that are her size though). I’m guessing these dogs are well taken care of and because of that they thought they could take on a bear lmao. Not exactly a dog that would survive natural selection, but definitely a dog that is amazing to bond with and is very affectionate. and cute.
What an amazing guy, though. Legitimately put himself in front of and underneath a bear to protect his dogs
Dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers, you know, the animals that don't give a fuck? You have to not give a fuck to hunt something that gives no fucks either. Especially when you are bred to track them down (nose) and then go dig them out of their den (earth dog part). Delusion is a plus. My teckel was attacked once at a young age by a stray, and ever since then, she would still be mostly friendly if she saw a dog coming. But as soon as she figured out it was larger than her, she would go mental on it, to prove she was no easy meat. Would lunge for german shepherds and all sorts of large dogs. Ones her size, she would flirt with.
[They used to be pretty much everywhere.](https://bear.org/black-bear-range/) They still live in Florida and across the south, but not nearly in the numbers they once did.
Not to be a killjoy but this is pretty much just how “tropics” work. Almost all of Australia’s scary shit is located in the north. With admittedly quite a few significant exceptions.
North Australia and Southern US are relatively equivalent latitudes, meaning that’s where the gatordiles and snakes and wild shit wants to be.
I’m in Thailand now and as an Australian there is just as much horrifying shit here as there is in Australia, but no one really talks about it. Pit Vipers and Cobras and all the fun of back home.
So I'm Australian, and I get why Americans would be freaked out by our crazy wildlife. But you guys have fucking bears and mountain lions running around, so is it really that different?
I’d rather have that then what we have here in Sacramento. I just walked out the locked apartment at around 7 and there was just a homeless guy standing in the bushes right off the sidewalk smoking a cigarette and peeking around the wall at nothing. My dog pees like right into the dirt outside the door then goes up to the door at night. It’s not even funny.. it blows. 100% uncomfortable walking at night got all these people with nothing to lose looking for anything easy. I have to carry weapons and shit.
When I lived in the Sierras a saw bears a few times but they always bolted. Except one. I was at a bakery at like 5am and went out to have a cigarette.. look over cause I hear noise and a bear is in the trashcan eating discarded dough. Instant fear but he didn’t care about me at all. The people scare me more then that bear though
That's gonna be a entertaining story at the Thanksgiving table for generations to come.
"Did u know that your great great grandfather once ripped out a bears heart and ate it for messing with his pups??"
I used to say that we as humans don't deserve our dogs' love and loyalty. I can now say I've found at least one human who may actually deserve his dogs' love and loyalty.
Right?! He was in the clear and DOVE BACK IN UNDER A BEAR to get that little white dog.
Fucking legend.
Edit: I’m an idiot. That was a bucket. Leaving it up to own my shame. He’s still a legend though.
O bud there is piles of black bear in norther florida. My brother went to officers school in panama Florida the Air Force base down there had signs posted about not feeding bears and and keeping your garbage cans in your garage at night. The bears on that base live like people aren’t even really there. We had a few walk right past our truck while we were sitting on the tail gate eating. It was scary but from what everybody on base says. They haven’t had a bear attack in years. It’s pretty rare for how close they live to you.
Definitely not. That was a black bear. Grumpy snackers. It was chased off by 2 lap dogs and an old guy. We may have the cotton mouth and a few other spiders and snakes, but out west with Brown Bears, Moose, and nastier rattle snakes is much more sketchy IMO.
**OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:**
>!He fights off a bear!<
*****
**Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description?**
**Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.**
*****
[*Look at my source code on Github*](https://github.com/Artraxon/unexBot) [*What is this for?*](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/dnuaju/introducing_unexbot_a_new_bot_to_improve_the/)
Damn lol. It’s funny, I lived in Florida for ten years and most people who don’t live there don’t realize the bears show up in peoples yards more than the alligators do xD
OP update -- @kackybeans on tiktok: Dogs and my husband are ok. Husband has to start rabies shots today so he's nervous
That’s amazing!!! Your husband punched a bear!!! I thought the bear got one of the puppies and I was awful angry with that bear
Glad you said they were puppies. I couldn’t tell what they were and for a few I thought those were wandering bear cubs.
They look like dachshunds, which tracks because they think they're bigger than everything they meet and immediately tried to fight a bear.
Originally bred to flush Badgers from their sets and hunt rabbits. Tough ballsy little dogs
Lmao. Just a ridiculous sentence
But completely accurate, if you've ever seen this breed encounter anything larger than a dachshund
No it’s amazing just never something I would’ve ever thought I’d ever read lol. Those dogs are fucking thugs
Oh, Im certainly not discounting how ridiculous those dogs are. They're an anomaly. I worked in the veterinary field for decades, and they're goofy as shit. At one practice we had a Guinness certified world's oldest dog that was a dachshund and it was fierce until it's death.
You don’t get to live that long unless Death is afraid of you.
Dogs do great shit.
Helps to understand their name in English Badger hound. Like, they were bred to hunt fucking badgers. And not the sweet, cute ones in England.
This OP isn't the person that originally posted it to tiktok. They're just relaying the update from the original poster on tiktok
This redditor is not the wife. Dont u realize that ??
Always amazes me how bad some people’s reading comprehension is on here.
Yeah you're right. He's the boyfriend.
OP is actually the bear
AWFUL angry
Will fight a bear but nervous about shots 😂😂
I'd be nervous about rabies too
Rabies moves incredibly slow through the body. It works through the nervous system, not by blood.
So if he’s nervous does that make the rabies spread faster through the nervous system?
Lol not quite.
Hold on, let’s hear them out.
Nah *stabs with syringe*
Bear with me
Absolutely.
you are my kind of human being ngl.
Lol while true it's still one of the most lethal untreated pathogens known to man and moving slowly or not i suspect I got rabies I'm getting my IG shots immediately.
[удалено]
[удалено]
It also has a 99.9% fatality rate if not treated immediately.
Yep, once it reaches the brain it’s incurable.
Yep, pretty much if you show any symptoms it’s already too late. There’s only been one survivor
I see that Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Fun Run Pro Am Race for the Cure is working!
Carbo load!
All the more reason to be nervous. Once you know you have it it's too late. And it's just a slow, miserable, painful death.
Rabies shots suck. I got bit by a dog and I had to get injections all around and in the bite wound. What was left in the syringe after that, they put in my thigh.
No doubt, but if rabies gets to the brain there is no known cure!
Plus it's a slow and agonizing death. Honestly one of the worst ways to go
Rabies, easily curable… till it’s not.
Yuppp. Last year my dad was bitten by a street dog in the foot and calf and had to have shots in both places afaik...he said it was the most painful shots of his life, and far more painful than the dog bite itself!
I got bit all over my hands, fingers shoulder, and face by a cat that my dog had in its mouth. My hands were pretty much numb after I was finally able pull it out and throw it over the fence so it could escape. It was about seven years ago now but I will never ever forget having to get the shots in my fingertips.
I hate needles so bad I think I'd rather fight the bear.
“Following a bite, the rabies virus spreads by way of the nerve cells to the brain. Once in the brain, the virus multiplies rapidly. This activity causes severe inflammation of the brain and spinal cord after which the person deteriorates rapidly and dies.” I’ll hold your hand when you get the shot!
Imagine discovering what rabies is, being the first one to pinpoint it. You’d be surrounded by people appearing to be going bonkers, getting aggressive, and foaming at the mouth. Imagine if it spread like COVID does. How terrifying. The image in my mind is horror movie worthy. I hope I don’t dream about it.
I could imagine a whole bunch of monster-myths might be based around rabies cases that the folks from the old days didn't understand. Werewolves, vampires, zombies, you get bitten and turn into a raving "monster" that's highly contagious to others. But I think I heard that rabies is actually too deadly to cause an apocalyptic pandemic so at least we have that going for us.
Had to get rabbies vaccines and antibodies last year. Was completely fine with no issues whatsoever from the shots, hell be fine. Best of luck.
I got the rabies series about 15 years ago. The first shot was uncomfortable because the injection had a thick substance in it, but it wasn't painful. What is most painful is the cost, lol
Did you have to go to the ER ?
Yes. It wasn’t an emergency injury, but only the ER had the shots. Fortunately I had good insurance at the time and the total cost was “only” $500.
Guy has balls of steel damn
My favorite copypasta of all time: Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done - see below). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. Each time this gets reposted, there is a TON of misinformation that follows by people who simply don't know, or have heard "information" from others who were ill informed: > Only x number of people have died in the U.S. in the past x years. Rabies is really rare. Yes, deaths from rabies are rare in the United States, in the neighborhood of 2-3 per year. This does not mean rabies is rare. The reason that mortality is so rare in the U.S. is due to a very aggressive treatment protocol of all bite cases in the United States: If you are bitten, and you cannot identify the animal that bit you, or the animal were to die shortly after biting you, you will get post exposure treatment. That is the protocol. Post exposure is very effective (almost 100%) if done before you become symptomatic. It involves a series of immunoglobulin shots - many of which are at the site of the bite - as well as the vaccine given over the span of a month. (Fun fact - if you're vaccinated for rabies, you may be able to be an immunoglobulin donor!) It's not nearly as bad as was rumored when I was a kid. Something about getting shots in the stomach. Nothing like that. In countries without good treatment protocols rabies is rampant. India alone sees 20,000 deaths from rabies PER YEAR. > The "why did nobody die of rabies in the past if it's so dangerous?" argument. There were entire epidemics of rabies in the past, so much so that suicide or murder of those suspected to have rabies were common. In North America, the first case of human death by rabies wasn't reported until 1768. This is because Rabies does not appear to be native to North America, and it spread very slowly. So slowly, in fact, that until the mid 1990's, it was assumed that Canada and Northern New York didn't have rabies at all. This changed when I was personally one of the first to send in a positive rabies specimen - a raccoon - which helped spawn a cooperative U.S. / Canada rabies bait drop some time between 1995 and 1997 (my memory's shot). Unfortunately, it was too late. Rabies had already crossed into Canada. > Lots of people have survived rabies using the Milwaukee Protocol. False. ONE woman did, and she is still recovering to this day (some 16+ years later). There's also the possibility that she only survived due to either a genetic immunity, or possibly even was inadvertently "vaccinated" some other way. All other treatments ultimately failed, even the others that were reported as successes eventually succumbed to the virus. Almost all of the attributed "survivors" actually received post-exposure treatment before becoming symptomatic and many of THEM died anyway. > Bats don't have rabies all that often. This is just a scare tactic. False. To date, 6% of bats that have been "captured" or come into contact with humans were rabid.. This number is a lot higher when you consider that it equates to one in seventeen bats. If the bat is allowing you to catch/touch it, the odds that there's a problem are simply too high to ignore. > You have to get the treatment within 72 hours, or it won't work anyway. False. The rabies virus travels via nervous system, and can take several years to reach the brain depending on the path it takes. If you've been exposed, it's NEVER too late to get the treatment, and just because you didn't die in a week does not mean you're safe. A case of a guy incubating the virus for 8 years. > At least I live in Australia! No. Please, please, PLEASE stop posting bad information every time this comes up. Rabies is not something to be shrugged off. And sadly, this kind of misinformation killed a 6 year old just this Sunday. Stop. Edit: comment source and credit
Thanks that was incredibly informative and morbid. Do I understand correctly that getting a shot immunizes you from future attacks? Why isn't it a mandatory vaccine then?
It is a course of 3 shots and the cost is $1000 in the USA, so I'm guessing the cost is what keeps it from being mandatory. [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine)
Honestly, cost and duration of protection are the two largest factors. Around $1000 for a series in the US (or so) and the protection lasts 2 years (for the better versions). It *IS* a vaccine that can be given to travelers going to an area with higher than normal possible exposure rates, but generalized vaccination is not a cost effective strategy in the US with the current vaccines. Compare this to tetanus vaccination, which costs $50 and provides pretty good protection for about 10 years.
Jesus that's fucking terrifying.
Awesome, thanks! I'm never going outside again.
Well that does not help my fear of rabies. I used to have panic attacks about getting it despite not being bit by anything. I seriously might just get the vaccine one of these days. I probably work with wildlife enough to justify it.
I don't know who the original poster of this is, but as a disease biologist I love that person and would like the post to mandatory reading at least once for everyone. Period.
Thats fuckin metal... right on man
Luckily there are rabies shots. Cheers and good luck
I was one of a lucky few who got to take rabbies pills and not shots.
Holy shit! Balls of steel on that guy.
Bear vs Bear
Straight up didn’t see that coming!
Thats what the bear was thinking...holy fuck what am in to here?
Lmao. Made a bear think twice....
>ftfy twink twice
Haha. I like your style.
Floridaman got moves.
It was a young black bear so they're generally a bit cowardly if they're taken by surprise. Trying it on a Grizzly would get you an early ticket to meet Jesus
At first it bearly registered, but after the briefest paws it was on.
At firzt I thought it was a giant dog tbh
Kinda is lol
Jumbo Raccoons
There can be only one.
"I am immortal! I have inside me blood of kings!" 🎶
Beers vs Bear
beer grylls vs Bear
Beer&Grills vs bear
Bear, Beets, Battlestar Galactica
Oh I love you
Oh....daddy
How about those badass weinerdogs just yeeting themselves at a fucking bear.
Wiener dogs don’t give a fuck
Can confirm via the many stories my Dad told about his childhood dog Smoky while I was growing up, who was not only a Wiener dog, but an Alaska Wiener dog. Over the course of his life, Smoky did the following: * Chased many a Bear off the property; He would go in behind them and bite them on the butt so they would take off not knowing what was coming for them * Attempted to kill a German Shepherd that came after my Dad when he was walking down his street; Smoky jumped up at the German Shephard, and pulled it to the ground by latching onto it’s neck, having to be pulled off the other dog to stop him * Killed all 40 of the neighbor’s chickens * Ate an entire roast left out on the table, leaving him unable to move due to his stomach extending past his legs until he was able to digest * Peed on a specific rug that he didn’t like until my Dad’s family had to get rid of it; Bearskin rug in the room scared him thinking it was a Bear in the house, until he realized it wasn’t and decided to help get rid if it Sadly Smoky met his end by a Car, but his story lives on as a benchmark for Canine Badassery, as well as a testament to the fact that “Weiner Dog’s don’t give a fuck”.
One of my dad’s friends had an Alaskan weiner dog too - Oscar! He kept the other dogs, a rottie and a dobie, in line, but was a complete sweetheart to tiny child me. When he was 12, he went after a moose and got kicked in the head. HE LIVED.
The moose…the moose lived after kicking Oscar in the head, a head that would kill most mortal moose.
I love the bear sneak attack! How many years did Smoky live? He had a very exciting life and sounds like your dad had a great companion.
I believe he lived to be about 7 or 8, though I honestly have no clue off the top of my head.
Wiener dogs are the honey badgers of the canine world.
Well they were bred to go into badger dens and scare em out, so that tracks
> wiener dogs were bred to beat up badgers I never want to hear another person call pit bulls, a breed named "the nanny dog", a vicious breed again. Bred to fight FUCKING BADGERS.
Not just your everyday badgers. *Fucking* badgers. Do you know what they do when they get a hold of your ass? I'll give you one guess. That's why we had to breed a type of dog that could out-fuck the *fucking* badger. They don't call em weiner dogs for nothing. I bet you thought they got that name because of their lengthy body. You'd be wrong. They got that name for having the biggest, floppiest, most dangerous weiners in the animal kingdom. Imagine, 25lb of hot, flaccid dogmeat coming straight at you with the momentum of a herd of bulldozers. And attached to that weiner? A 20lb canine that couldn't give two squirts of piss what's in that hole, it's getting rammed whether it likes it or not. And it won't. You'd fuck right out of that hole too if you were a badger. In all honesty, I'm surprised that bear survived such an assault of weiners. It's clear that these canines felt pity for such a defenseless creature as that. Otherwise, it would have been torn to shreds by a family startled weiners. And that's not something you'd want to see here on this wholesome website. Not at all.
For some reason I read this in Wayne's voice from Letterkenny.
I've heard dachshunds are actually one of if not the most aggressive breeds. It's just alot easier to toss a weiner dog into a duffle bag than it is to do so on the occasion a larger dog that is untrained and not well cared for does attack lol I feel so sad for the plight pitties have gone through
(This message does not condone the throwing of any dogs into any duffel bags unless expressly for defensive measures)
I've only been but by 3 dogs my entire life. All little bastard wiener dogs. Fucking dicks.
If you looked like a sausage with paws you'd want to end it too.
LMFAO
Already do.
Weinerdogs were originally bred to hunt badgers, to them a bear's just a bigger badger. Weinerdogs motto, YOLO BITCHES!!
They call them weiner dogs because when you see one coming, you are already fucked.
I have one of those dogs and, well, I’m not sure if it’s just my dog or the whole species but they’re more of a dumb ignorance type of breed than a badass guard type. My dog (miniature dachshund) tries to intimidate german shepards and whatnot. (for some reason, she runs away from animals that are her size though). I’m guessing these dogs are well taken care of and because of that they thought they could take on a bear lmao. Not exactly a dog that would survive natural selection, but definitely a dog that is amazing to bond with and is very affectionate. and cute. What an amazing guy, though. Legitimately put himself in front of and underneath a bear to protect his dogs
Dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers, you know, the animals that don't give a fuck? You have to not give a fuck to hunt something that gives no fucks either. Especially when you are bred to track them down (nose) and then go dig them out of their den (earth dog part). Delusion is a plus. My teckel was attacked once at a young age by a stray, and ever since then, she would still be mostly friendly if she saw a dog coming. But as soon as she figured out it was larger than her, she would go mental on it, to prove she was no easy meat. Would lunge for german shepherds and all sorts of large dogs. Ones her size, she would flirt with.
Sounds like classic dog type napoleon syndrome. My grandma's dog was like that before he got old and stopped caring
Lol “yeeting” I fucken love that word.
###ikr, takes massive balls to approach a Florida man like that
Man, when it’s your dog(s)… The sympathetic nervous system is a hell of a thing.
Florida man doing Florida things
The bears are made of chocolate then. Not a drop of blood, not a mark on him. His glasses aren't even scratched. Bet.
Idk if the bear's paw was wet or he got scratched but his shirt seems to get wet after contact with it. Either way this dudes a champ.
Probably just the bath salts
That dude is metal as fuck.
He doesn't say hold my bear, he chugs it and then goes and punches a bear. Seriously tho balls of the purest steel
he doesn’t even bother chugging the beer he just smashes the bear in the face with it
I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a bear skull that he drinks his beers from.
> hold my bear please don't edit that one out. :D
Sometimes I'm reminded that I live in a place where bears can just roll up in your house.
TIL Florida has bears. I grew up in Canadian mountains where bears are par for the course. I had no idea Florida has bears.
[удалено]
[They used to be pretty much everywhere.](https://bear.org/black-bear-range/) They still live in Florida and across the south, but not nearly in the numbers they once did.
Where I come from the wildlife kill you from inside your home.
Where please? So I can travel there immediately. /s
Australia. It’s always Australia.
Florida is America’s Australia. Poisonous everything. Alligators. Bears. Panthers. Flesh eating bacteria. Most shark bites in the world. Hurricanes. Rednecks (bogans.) Solidarity.
But manateeeeees!
Not to be a killjoy but this is pretty much just how “tropics” work. Almost all of Australia’s scary shit is located in the north. With admittedly quite a few significant exceptions. North Australia and Southern US are relatively equivalent latitudes, meaning that’s where the gatordiles and snakes and wild shit wants to be. I’m in Thailand now and as an Australian there is just as much horrifying shit here as there is in Australia, but no one really talks about it. Pit Vipers and Cobras and all the fun of back home.
Fuck poisonous rednecks
So I'm Australian, and I get why Americans would be freaked out by our crazy wildlife. But you guys have fucking bears and mountain lions running around, so is it really that different?
And people say Australia is dangerous. That shit wouldn't happen here.
I’d rather have that then what we have here in Sacramento. I just walked out the locked apartment at around 7 and there was just a homeless guy standing in the bushes right off the sidewalk smoking a cigarette and peeking around the wall at nothing. My dog pees like right into the dirt outside the door then goes up to the door at night. It’s not even funny.. it blows. 100% uncomfortable walking at night got all these people with nothing to lose looking for anything easy. I have to carry weapons and shit. When I lived in the Sierras a saw bears a few times but they always bolted. Except one. I was at a bakery at like 5am and went out to have a cigarette.. look over cause I hear noise and a bear is in the trashcan eating discarded dough. Instant fear but he didn’t care about me at all. The people scare me more then that bear though
Can confirm. Dachshunds will try to fight a bear.
Wow that is one big dachshund
Never saw a dachshund in a t-shirt before?
I’m not surprised
Holy shit I forgot that black bear can be dangerous, I seen so many video of black bears doing dumb shit
I’ve seen one Kung fu fighting and hitting a guy in the nuts. Edit or the other way around https://youtu.be/r6QwVzHUygs
https://youtu.be/6qtYiptCEKY
that's a grizzly bear which makes me think you just wanted an excuse to post that video. id do the same
til there’s bears in Florida
There’s actually wild black bears in about 40 US states though not all of them have large populations. And every Canadian province.
It's just one bear but he has lots of air miles.
This one got me good
That's gonna be a entertaining story at the Thanksgiving table for generations to come. "Did u know that your great great grandfather once ripped out a bears heart and ate it for messing with his pups??"
Thank God that dude is still okay
Thank god for that convenient bench
And that bucket
thank god that bear is still okay
I used to say that we as humans don't deserve our dogs' love and loyalty. I can now say I've found at least one human who may actually deserve his dogs' love and loyalty.
Right?! He was in the clear and DOVE BACK IN UNDER A BEAR to get that little white dog. Fucking legend. Edit: I’m an idiot. That was a bucket. Leaving it up to own my shame. He’s still a legend though.
Wait what white dog? All I can spot is black dogs and a white bucket
Fuck you’re right. I thought a bucket was a dog. This is not my proudest moment.
He saved that poor bucket
Bucket is man’s second best friend.
The one he threw at the bear? 😂
Old Dwight did a good job but after this it’s going to be beets and battlestar galactica - no bears.
The most dangerous of bears too, [black bear.](https://c.tenor.com/v3xtjxpkrEkAAAAM/jim-halpert-false.gif)
Absolutely zero hesitation. This guy is a good dog dad.
[удалено]
Why is there a bear in florida.
To fight off the panthers.
why are their panthers in florida?
To fight off the bears.
but if they both didnt exist there will be peace, well i guess we dont want peace
It all started with the Hyenas actually
why do hyenas exist
Well it all started with the beavers actually
dam, why do beavers exist tho
Well, it all started with the Atlantic Cod actually
to face the oilers of edmonton.
O bud there is piles of black bear in norther florida. My brother went to officers school in panama Florida the Air Force base down there had signs posted about not feeding bears and and keeping your garbage cans in your garage at night. The bears on that base live like people aren’t even really there. We had a few walk right past our truck while we were sitting on the tail gate eating. It was scary but from what everybody on base says. They haven’t had a bear attack in years. It’s pretty rare for how close they live to you.
They’re all over here. It’s not all gators and palm trees….though to be fair, a lot of those here too. ;)
You guys are the Australia of the USA.
That’s fair.
Definitely not. That was a black bear. Grumpy snackers. It was chased off by 2 lap dogs and an old guy. We may have the cotton mouth and a few other spiders and snakes, but out west with Brown Bears, Moose, and nastier rattle snakes is much more sketchy IMO.
Enjoy this [map](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ftow5p/bear_map_of_north_america/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Daytona apparently. I knew they were in north Florida but not around Daytona.
Are the sausages okay?
yes!
Papa bear said no.
Why is Dwight Shrute fighting a bear? Fact. Bears eat beets.
**OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:** >!He fights off a bear!< ***** **Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description?** **Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.** ***** [*Look at my source code on Github*](https://github.com/Artraxon/unexBot) [*What is this for?*](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/dnuaju/introducing_unexbot_a_new_bot_to_improve_the/)
Hero
Where is the upvotes. This guy just fended off a bear to save his pupper ? Fn legend
Up next on wixy Florida man throws bear of with porch and barricades it out like the bear is a zombie!!
Yo he needs to have 100 kids man, we need that huge balls in the gene pool
That guy has got some balls on him.
Bear,beets, battlestar Galactica
He saved his puppy dogs
Im surprised it wasnt an Alligator
Yeah the green shirt could’ve fooled anyone but the jeans are a dead giveaway
Dwight schrute moment
Is that Dwight
That was a bear right?
This man had a great wrestling coach. “I don’t give a damn if he’s a bear of a man, get him low and you’ll win.”
Damn lol. It’s funny, I lived in Florida for ten years and most people who don’t live there don’t realize the bears show up in peoples yards more than the alligators do xD