This latest rabid beaver threat occurred 6 miles from Lake Barcroft where the swimming 83 year old woman was attacked earlier. You can set your watches for how soon the county decides to engage in massive trapping to ‘cure this problem’. I suppose the best possible outcome will be if they restrict themselves to killing all beavers and raccoons in the county, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this went state wide or father if a journalist or administrator spends three minutes on the google and learns about the attack that occurred on the two young swimmers earlier this summer.
Remember any mammal can contract rabies, including beavers, house cats and humans. It’s not nearly as common but it certainly can happen. Sigh. It’s depressing to see this story even made it to the Huffington Post today, I guess everyone likes a good beaver-cujo story. Not me. I think its depressing. I think we should all watch this to cheer ourselves up.
