No squirrels were harmed and I worshed my hands after.

EDIT: Also I feed the squirrels, we’re chill, that’s why this one was so comfortable having his back turned to the gate. He just got a little too greedy.

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    The squirrels on campus back in the day were so used to people. We’d go with a bag of peanuts and they would all come running. Some would sneak in and steal them out of the bag, others would eat them out of your hand, a couple would go wherever you led them, including on top of my head or in the palm of my outstretched hand. And then sit there and eat the peanuts.

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      We had some that were like that and some that were mean AF. Some would hide in bushes and leap out and attack you when you were walking by.

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      I did that with the chipmunks but they started trying to drag away my fingers like it was a really heavy peanut. And they bite hard.

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      It certainly wasn’t THAT level of engagement, but when I was in college the students had to be told not to feed the on-campus alligators.

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        As a trained squirrel handler, while it’s not impossible for a squirrel to get rabies, there is probably a single digit number of them out there at any given moment.

        At least in the US, no one has ever gotten rabies from a squirrel.

        Your rabies prone species are bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons, and skunks.

        That said, it’s unadvisable to touch any wild animals. (Though I’d still boop that squirrel.)

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          Your rabies prone species are bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons, and skunks.

          and people.

          lol I actually have no idea if person to person actually ever happens, know it’s been an issue in transplants tho, which is like… how?

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            I believe rabies has a pretty long incubation period before symptoms appear, so there’s a window where you might not know someone has it

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            It looks like the organs/corneas were from people that died without knowing they had it. That seems to have been the only way it’s ever been spread human to human.

            This story of a girl who got bit, developed symptomatic rabies, and survived says she got bit by a bat and it didn’t even bleed, so her mom put peroxide on it and they thought she was fine. She was ok for over a month.