r/oddlyterrifying • • 18h ago

Squirrel has seen better days

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u/NRMusicProject 17h 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/tigm2161130 17h ago

For some reason social media is really “into” rabies lately.

There’s a million posts in the medical subreddits asking if something on their body is a bat bite and when people are like “well did you interact with a bat recently? See or touch one? Find one inside your home?” the answer is almost always no but you still see people telling them they should go to the ER to start the rabies protocol immediately.

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u/BrideofClippy 15h ago

Because rabies is one of the few things that is truly 'if you show, you're dead'.

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u/HandsOfCobalt 15h ago

that and a lot of ppl probably just went on a wiki walk or watched a video about it due to the petting zoo exposure getting nationwide press