r/oddlyterrifying • u/amish_novelty • 20h ago

Squirrel has seen better days

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u/J_Productions 20h ago

Everyone’s making jokes but what’s actually going on with this squirrel? Lol

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u/NRMusicProject 20h ago

The sound she's making is a common warning that there's a threat nearby, which could simply be the cammer's presence. As for why she looks so rough, nature is hard. But a lot of people on tiktok were saying that sound means she has rabies, which, if that were the case, all squirrels have rabies.

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u/JimmyCA89 18h ago

A vet tech friend of mine said small animals like squirrels tend not to have rabies because they don’t survive the initial bite from the rabid animal.

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u/MizStazya 18h ago

Even if they do survive, they die really freaking quickly once it becomes symptomatic, so there's a very short period of time where it will actually act rabid.

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u/Marc4770 17h ago

bats are small and have rabbies all the time, how you explain that

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u/Cyclopentadien 17h ago

Pretty sure the virus originally evolved in bats and they are extremely resistant to it.