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Can a dog get rabies by eating an animal infected with rabies?
My dog ate something in the backyard this morning. He wouldn’t let me get near him to see what it was. He’s never done this before (granted he’s only a year and a half). It looked to me like a bunny or squirrel (I saw gray fur sticking out of his mouth) but when he picked it up I heard a squeaky noise like a toy so maybe it’s a mouse. I’m wondering if it was infected with a disease, can it pass to him? I crated him so I could watch him more closely and see if I need to take him in or it nature will take its course. I can’t find any animal remains in the backyard. What, if any, disease can be passed from one animal eating a diseased animal? Anyone have a similar experience and what to share?
It’s highly unlikely. Rabies is NOT the big scare as people seem to think. It is a VERY rare disease and some parts of the country rarely ever see it. For an example, in my county there has NEVER been a case of rabies reported in history. In southern Indiana there are more cases but mostly in bats. In 10 years in Indiana there have only been a little over 700 cases and of those, only one dog, one horse, 3 skunks. The rest were bats. You can check with your counties health department on line to get the facts on rabies in your area.
Rabies vaccine by law for the most part is a huge scam. Please read the articles.
http://www.naturalrearing.com/articles/GuestAuthors/RABIESSCAM.html
http://www.dogsadversereactions.com/rabiesChallenge.html
The facts on rabies and the vaccine for rabies speak volumes about the disease. Rabies was never a disease that has been controlled by vaccines. Rabies generally kills animals with in 7 to 10 days so there is NO way it could ever spread to an epidemic level. Rabies is no less common now that BILLIONS of pets are being over vaccinated then it was before the vaccine came out. It is a self limiting disease meaning that animals die quickly and do not have the opportunity to caue major spread of the disease.
There are thousands of pets in my county getting rabies vaccines at 50 bucks a pop annually for a disease that has never been seen here. It’s more about the money it brings to vets and drug makers and the county for officials then it is about the prevention of a disease that doesn’t even exist here. Ridiculous!
All that said… I would not be concerned about your pet eating a dead animal and getting rabies.
There is conflicting info out there on whether or not it could even be spread by eating a dead animal. A fact we do know is that rabies disease can not survive or thrive in animals with a temperature of lower then 99 degrees. For example.. opposums do not carry rabies because of their body temperature being 98. So it only stands to reason that if an animal has been dead for a while it wouldn’t have the temperature to support the disease. Yet I saw one web site that claimed in warm weather the disease would die with in 24 hours on a dead animal but they claim in winter months it could live in the animal for many months. This doesn’t make a drop of sense! lol If the facts are the disease can’t live under 99 degrees then how the hell is it going to live in freezing temps?
Anyway… don’t worry about it. 
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