It's been one really really bad day I tell ya and then I run into this nasty coon . Cant say I have ever seen a animal act like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4U9E2CEH7c&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

My son goes i will shot it and I'll dig the hole but I'm not touching that cage . The animal was acting lazy sleepy like then just jumped up acting crazy . Not sure if I should hang some warning signs around the area . Should I just let the niegbor association know

Don't know about your area Pesky, but if it were here I would put it to sleep ( no shooting with a rabies suspect ) and take it to our largest humane society. They would send it to the state capitol for testing. As far as I know, rabies can only be transmitted through an open wound, so if there are any lacerations on your hand, gloves are a must.

Crazy is right. Thats freaky.

The DNR will want to know.....call casey.

In the counties I service in NY they wont test it unless someone had been in contact with it directly... So I would put it down and take it to one of the humane societys to have it cremated/incinerated.

My boy took his 12 ga to every single animal on the truck yesterday . Had no idea that animal was sick . Looked over heated or dehydrated at a glacé . It wasnt very hot yesterday . Felt cool to me . Crazy how that coon just jumped up like that . Started trying to rip his own eyes out of his head . Next time I get called to a sick coon laying in a yard I'll be watching for this rage virus jumping up .

If your going to take video with your phone at least hold the phone horizontal.

Sounded like he had a bone stuck in his throat.

Same over here Nic,and then only for rabies, if it comes back negative, they do not look any further as to what it has. I suspect alot of the Raccoons we see, and Skunks that are sick also, have distemper, but have no proof. You just treat them all as if they have active rabies virus.

We haven't gotten the raccoon strain of rabies in MI, yet. But, there would be huge interest...would one be found. Would have been nice to have had it tested. Contact: David Marks, Wildlife Disease Biologist, USDA.

We haven't ever had a raccoon test positive for rabies in Wisconsin either. I was told that they susceptible to both canine and feline rabies.

Thats why I don't catch and release..........

They start acting Ike that more ill be taking the pellet gun to them all as well . Just a lot more easy to let them run off . Would loose a few jobs from it but I wouldn't release things like that .

ponyboy, you don't catch and release EVERYTHING. If an animal is obviously sick, it ends up in the garbage. The only place you would release Pesky's raccoon would be at an Obama rally.

I dig a hole for the sick ones no point in feeding them to the seagull down at the local dump . Might start just popping them all . Picked up a special pellet gun just for the truck . Been about every kinda animal found with rabbies around here . Coyote, grey fox that bit four people till this guy after getting bit went into the garage and grabed his shovel . Skunks . Even had a ground hog that was kinda funny I thought but not funny. Lots of bats but they don't make the news much . Lady had a cat she took in that turn it a rabies case . I think the rabies thing is minor compared to country's like Iraq .

Pesky, this is not a local dump. This is over one square mile of garbage that is maintained very well. After all, they siphon off the gas and sell it back to us in the form of electricity. They welcome dead stuff; they make the most gas!

I give up.

Well there's about ten thousand seagulls flying over are dumps . I'm sure there not just up sunning themselves . There's this ritzy sub to the south of me they biult just southeast of this mountain size dump and when the wind blows northwest holy cow the Oder is bad . They biult this gaint pond right in the middle for the seagulls . They just fly back and forth craping like seagulls do landing crapping on houses and that pond is there roost site as well . There's thousands of birds crapping on 1/2 mil homes . Well 100 k homes now . The garbage comes over from Ontario Canada in trucks that don't get searched .There also planning on building them a new bridge that the mi residence will have to pay for . Like 60 billion . Mostly will run over seeing its got to cross the detriot river . It's a wide deep river with fast water seeing it joins the great lakes . No steel made in the USA anymore so should be good for Canada

Pesky, I sense a little discomfort in your posts about the local government in Michigan. I think it's time you went on You Tube and listened to some of the Pure Michigan ads. These are the funniest take-offs on a state that you have ever seen and heard. The older ones are the best.

Wow that coon is crazy!