Many years ago, I was on a family vacation at a remote lodge in Canada and some of the squirrels were friendly and would come up and beg for food. Well, I had been feeding a couple of them and one had a torn ear, he ended up biting me, but did not break the skin. Later that day, someone mentioned that a squirrel that had a torn ear was running around and was thought to have rabies... Good thing he did not break the skin. They did not have the new vaccine yet and I would have had to endure the 12 shots in the stomach. On the other hand, maybe that explains why I have been foaming at the mouth for so many years
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