hopefully the owners are the first ones to get bitten and decides to not get a rabies shot
Oh yes!
During an appointment for our dog or cat (I don't remember which pet it was) at the vet a few years ago, the veterinarian said, "He's due for his rabies shot," and we could see how nervous she was. We said yes, do it, and she relaxed immediately.
She said that she's had some people who had gone off on her about vaccines when she recommended them.
It is amazing how so many people just assume so many things are just made up because they haven't ever experienced them personally. If their dog gets rabies and gives it to them they are likely to be a dead person walking before they realize how stupid that choice was.
To say nothing of the people that just seem to think things like Measles, Mumps, and Rubella were just apparently no big deal and the MMR vaccine only exists to put microchips in their kids or some nonsense. It is hard to believe so few people have even a passing familiarity with historical things that were everyday life as recently as when their grandparents and maybe parents were kids.
I really don't get that attitude presumably you have a pet because you like them. You want them to be healthy, kids, meh, whatever, but my cat getting all her shots.
My wife made a joke about not wanting our dummy cat to have autism to each other, and we noticed a vet start to get real angry.
Tried to explain it was a joke but she was already annoyed at us.
Please don't. Rabies is one the most horrifing thing in the world. Horror level stuff. And by the time you see the first sypthoms it's already to late. Please, please don't fuck with it.
Honestly I moght come off as an asshole but anyone that is dumb enough to not vax their pets against it deserves to get rabies.
Yes, they deserve it. The child their "wouldn't hurt a fly" fighting dog hospitalised doesn't deserve it though.
Isn't the whole thing with dogs is that they're definitely autistic wolves and that's why they like us?
Edit: It was hyper sociability linked to missing DNA, which mirrors a human condition called Williams-Buren syndrome that causes similar behavior in humans.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700398
tl;dr: it was probably neurodivergent human going "omg that wolf is just like me!" but actually being correct and not getting eaten that led to the first domesticated dogs.
I’d say cats are autistic. Don’t like eye contact, simultaneously want stimulation but are easily over stimulated, etc. Dogs? Adhd with the hyperfocus. Ball. Ball. Ball. Ball. Ball. Ball. Food. Food. Food. Food. Food. Food.
*my completely made up opinion.
if you think about it every opinion is made up
Meanwhile I'm over here having long blink competitions with a cat seeing what responses I get.
Anacdotally I agree with you though. The dogs I've had over the years are usually far more focused unless you bring out catnip.
never heard of that before, the thing i've heard people say is that dogs have ADHD and cats are autistic, which broadly jives with the traits of each and how the animals behave.
as someone with autism i just vibe with cats on a fundamental level, while dogs often feel exhausting and a little intimidating just because they're so energetic.
I found the study I remembered reading, linked in my comment if you're interested.
No.
Do you know how much I'd pay for an autistic dog
Sir that’s a cat.
My dog is nonverbal, prone to hyperfixation, very sensitive to sounds, never gets bored of the same walk to the same park, likes to eat the same thing for every meal, and has approximately 3 emotions, angry, excited, and asleep.
Are you telling me when someone said "I'm so panda right now" they were really just identifying with the animorphic embodiment of autism? /s
We'll soon have to quarantine people from the USA lol.
The MAGA zombie: Rabid, riddled with infectious diseases and shitting themselves everywhere from drinking raw milk.
World War Z 2.0 is going to be fun.
For sure. We're gonna drop under the minimum vaccine threshold for measles, smallpox, polio, and more. Leave us to roll in our own filth Edit: smallpox is eradicated in the wild. did not know that
It worries me when people say this, because it implies that you guys just regurgitate stuff without understanding it at all. There is no minimum vaccine threshold anywhere in the world for smallpox, it is eradicated, same with polio with the exceptions of a few isolated areas. The US is not unique in not vaccinating for smallpox, nobody but soldiers and researchers are still vaccinated for smallpox worldwide and most countries do not generally vaccinate for polio, because it doesn't exist in the wild in most countries. There are so many scary things that could happen because of people not vaccinating. The return of smallpox would require more than vaccine hesitancy though let alone the US "stopping vaccinating against it." The US has not routinely vaccinated for smallpox since 1972. This would require a lab leak or bioterrorism. Please, being ignorant in the correct direction is really not that much better than ignorance in the wrong direction. Learn more about issues.
Polio is on the rise again. New wild variants as well as vaccine derived strands are contributing to it.
When vaccination rate and access to healthcare are good, this does not cause an issue, but if it lowers, or if the health system is deliberately destroyed like in Gaza, it creates the ground for a new outbreak.
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-07-2025-statement-of-the-forty-second-meeting-of-the-polio-ihr-emergency-committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Gaza_Strip_polio_epidemic
Yes, there are a few isolated areas of the world where polio is still a threat and vaccine efforts are very important including for anyone visiting that area, and yes, it could get bad enough that anti-vaccine morons could reintroduce polio to a developed nation and that would be disastrous. However, for the time being there is no minimum herd immunity threshold for polio in the developed world, it is eradicated there and vaccines for it have not been recommended for the general populace for quite some time.
Maybe the problem will solve itself?
Have you ever seen us manage a problem that we didn't share with the rest of the world? Were that asshole who caught Covid and then went to the pubs as a malicious joke.
Hey, I said maybe!
They'll all get rabies and then spread it by biting each other.
28 States Later
I fucking hate this timeline.
My vet told me my rescue dog already has "the -tisims".
She's crazy, but I can't imagine how insane she'd be with full blown rabies. No, our Bean is getting vaccinated.
Bean is adorbz, please smooch her soft lil head for me 🥰
it's the responsible thing to do, not only for you, but for your dog to help them live a long healthy life.
My cat got cancer from the rabies vaccine, had to get his leg amputated, and now has a month or two left to live, so it's not completely outrageous to be weary. It's called an injection site or vaccine sarcoma. I'm not anti-vax, though. But I am sad about my cat's declining health.
No doctor or immunologist would ever claim that a vaccine (or any medical treatment) is wholly without risk. It's just that the risk of vaccine injury, or in your sad case, vaccine induced sarcoma, is vastly outweighed by the risk of the disease that is being vaccinated against.
At-least its better than someone dying a horrific and gruesome death.
Yeah rabies is no joke.
I'm so sorry for you and your cat :(.
Yeah it happens, our dog is battling immune mediated thrombocytopenia right now that they think is related to the leishmaniasis booster he had. It's rare, but the irony is that it would have been much easier to treat the leishmaniasis and he might not be near death in the ICU. Rabies and parvo are much more dangerous and harder to treat though so you have to risk it with the vaccine because the alternative is worse.
Daugtism
That's just my dog stimming
So if an antivaxxer gets bitten by an animal that has rabies, are they allowed to turn down the rabies vaccine?...
Because then we'd just have an antivaxxer walking around that's a ticking time bomb waiting to zomb out.
You don't turn into a zombie, you just die of thirst because you are afraid to drink.
I don't mean literal zombie obviously, otherwise we'd hear way more about rabies.
Yes, about a third just get paralyzed and die, but in most cases, people do become extra violent and foam at the mouth, and in some cases, insane or have psychosis. Basically, a decent chunk of people basically act like how modern zombies are depicted (it is even the inspiration for the trope), getting super strength (from activated adrenaline due to fear) and lashing out wildly, getting saliva everywhere that can then infected others. Especially when exposed to water.
My own mother was a witness to this when a little girl in her village got rabies. She basically went feral and even did try biting people, along with scratching and such of course. It took 4 men to keep her restrained and tie her to a bed until she died.
Before that, it just seemed like she had a cold and a fever. According to her mother, she basically one morning just snapped when she tried to give her water.
2 men, and the mom, were bitten. Luckily at least they were able to immediately go to a hospital to get treated with the vaccination (which way the time was even worse than the current vaccines, and even left scarring btw). Another kid shortly after also had the same symptoms and they took him to the hospital, but well he obviously didn't make it as he had symptoms and this was the 1960s...
I was skeptical about dogs being on various spectrums, but then I met one who is definitely ADHD.
Also, not the slightest bit surprised about antivaxxers being coocoo about animals, too. The percentages are still jaw-dropping though, seen from the other side of the pond.
