So im chilling in my living room after dinner with my sister, dad, aunt, grandma and grandpa. Everyone is tired and planning to go to bed, im just chillin on the couch flying around my new RC helicopter. My dad and aunt decide to walk around the block, and my grandmother goes upstairs, so its just me, my sister, and my grandfather. Anyway a few min later my dogs outside start barking like crazy, so i tell my sister to go shut them up. She comes back in 30 seconds later going nuts yelling "THERES A POSSUM OUT ON THE FENCE". Well this is the Florida Keys i lived in all my life and ive never seen a possum, and thought my sister ment a raccoon. So i grab my air rifle and a flashlight and run out to see it. Sure enough, it is a giant fucking possum that probably weighed 15-20 pounds. My dogs are going nuts on it, the possum is ontop of the backyard fence. There was a thick white froth in its mouth. The thing had rabies, and it was snapping at my dogs.
This website shows possums defense: http://www.opossumsocietyus.org/opossum … anisms.htm
This animal was not acting in any of those manners, it was snapping and trying to bat my dogs in their face with its claws.
And control+f this page and look at the rabies section: http://www.opossumsocietyus.org/frequen … 20a%20pet?
"Any mammal can get rabies. However, the chance of rabies in an opossum is EXTREMELY RARE. This may have something to do with the opossum’s low body temperature (94-97º F) making it difficult for the virus to survive in an opossum’s body."
Well, its my lucky day, i found a possum with rabies.
My sister got the dogs to get away from it and it was me vs. this rabid possum. I had no clue what this crazy animal was going do.....sit there, run away, or jump at me and attack me. I decided since it was rabid im taking it out, so i chambered a BB in my crossman 2000 (i think thats the type), pumped it 5 times, and shot it right between the eyes. All that happened was a small hole appeared and his head jolted back from the force of being hit. He then repositions himself and looks at me, then starts shaking his head, faster and faster. It was one of the creepiest things ive ever seen.. it was like it was possessed by something. It didn't scream/screech/yelp or anything, just shook its head while blood started to cover its face. I shot it two more times between the eyes and it didn't kill it, and the possum didn't act any different. I then went inside and got my Shadow air rifle which shoots pellets at 1200 fps, meaning its about as powerful as a .22. I shot him between the eyes with that and it jumped about a inch of the fence, it looked like all the muscles in his body tensed up. When the pellet hit him i saw a small stream of blood come out behind his head. Anyway, he was all tensed up and he just fell backwards lifeless into the water. Luckily it is a high tide and the scent of blood is in the water, which will draw nurse sharks to him so he wont sit in the mud and decay when the tide recedes.
Now i don't know if you guys go hunting all the time and think this is a "whoopdy-doo" story or what, it was just unusual for me because the biggest mammal that lives in marathon is a raccoon, and this possum was a lot bigger than a raccoon. For me it was pretty intense, probably because of the way it was acting, it was scary. Ive never experienced something like that before, all i know is when you see a wild rabid animal you kill it right away.
Anyway......
Patton- 1
Rabies- 0
gg me.
This website shows possums defense: http://www.opossumsocietyus.org/opossum … anisms.htm
This animal was not acting in any of those manners, it was snapping and trying to bat my dogs in their face with its claws.
And control+f this page and look at the rabies section: http://www.opossumsocietyus.org/frequen … 20a%20pet?
"Any mammal can get rabies. However, the chance of rabies in an opossum is EXTREMELY RARE. This may have something to do with the opossum’s low body temperature (94-97º F) making it difficult for the virus to survive in an opossum’s body."
Well, its my lucky day, i found a possum with rabies.
My sister got the dogs to get away from it and it was me vs. this rabid possum. I had no clue what this crazy animal was going do.....sit there, run away, or jump at me and attack me. I decided since it was rabid im taking it out, so i chambered a BB in my crossman 2000 (i think thats the type), pumped it 5 times, and shot it right between the eyes. All that happened was a small hole appeared and his head jolted back from the force of being hit. He then repositions himself and looks at me, then starts shaking his head, faster and faster. It was one of the creepiest things ive ever seen.. it was like it was possessed by something. It didn't scream/screech/yelp or anything, just shook its head while blood started to cover its face. I shot it two more times between the eyes and it didn't kill it, and the possum didn't act any different. I then went inside and got my Shadow air rifle which shoots pellets at 1200 fps, meaning its about as powerful as a .22. I shot him between the eyes with that and it jumped about a inch of the fence, it looked like all the muscles in his body tensed up. When the pellet hit him i saw a small stream of blood come out behind his head. Anyway, he was all tensed up and he just fell backwards lifeless into the water. Luckily it is a high tide and the scent of blood is in the water, which will draw nurse sharks to him so he wont sit in the mud and decay when the tide recedes.
Now i don't know if you guys go hunting all the time and think this is a "whoopdy-doo" story or what, it was just unusual for me because the biggest mammal that lives in marathon is a raccoon, and this possum was a lot bigger than a raccoon. For me it was pretty intense, probably because of the way it was acting, it was scary. Ive never experienced something like that before, all i know is when you see a wild rabid animal you kill it right away.
Anyway......
Patton- 1
Rabies- 0
gg me.
