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lil_exorcist · MAD DOG!

Storytelling time with lil_exorcist!

ZoeandTucker · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

I'm not sure. The throwing up and diarrhea worries me. I'm not sure what the symptoms of rabies are. I'll look it up for you. I'm also not sure what other things bats carry. I'll look that up for you too. I know people always hear this answer but this is what I'd do. I'd call my vet first. Tell them the situation. They will definitely know what to look for if its rabies and they'll know what else it could be. Anyway, ask them if there's anyway you could be billed for the payment later. Tell them there is absolutely no way you can pay for it until the 15th. If they won't let you call around until you find a vet that will. I wouldn't care if I had to drive an hour or more. With the symptoms showing up after a bat was in the house I would be so worried. There is a vet out there that will let you be billed and you will find it. It may take some work but I say call your vet now. Go on. Go do it.

Let us know what happens.

ZoeandTucker · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

From what I've found so far it doesn't appear to be rabies. Also from what I've found bats don't carry any other diseases. Kind of interesting. I've always thought of bats to be these horrible disease carrying creatures but I guess I was wrong. I do know their ugly though. We have some at the Philadelphia Zoo and they scare me just to look at them. UGH! Call your vet. It could be a parasite.

http://www.animalhealthchannel.com/rabies/symptoms.shtml

-- Edited by ZoeandTucker at 10:31, 2005-08-10

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

What an exciting evening. I would have totally freaked out too. LOL!!!

I remember once when I left the front door open one night while I was outside talking to friends. Well, during the night I was hearing weird noises in the living room. When I went to check it out it was a momma opposum(ap) and her babies. I totally freaked out. I called the sheriffs department and it took them forever to get out to the house. We lived in the country at the time. I will never forget that night.

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Oh how spooky. I freaked when a dragonfly was in my apartment. LOL I once had something scratching at my mailbox. It was the kind you put mail in it from outside and I can open the box and retrieve the mail. I stood there in the middle of the night holding it closed cause I was afraid of what it could be, LOL Hubby went round front to see but saw nothing. I finally opened the door, with broom in hand and flashlight. There by the mailbox was a small racoon. They are usually gone out of sight by morning. It was scraed though. I finally got him to move off my plant stand and it went upstairs. LOL He was climbing on my neighbors security door. I was wondering how long it would take for them to notice. Finally they did, it moved along onto the roof. I think it got off onto the avocado tree that had a limb near the roof. Boy that scared me.

shinyblackpit · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Since it doesn't look like rabies, and bats don't carry anything else (thanks, Zoe, I also thought they carried lots of things!) I would wait it out for a day and see if she clears up. Unless you have good reason to think it is something more serious. Like if she is lethargic or blood in the poo.

dusty082155 · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

i too would keep an eye on her for a day or so. have you changed their food lately or gave them anything different to eat ? is the weather very hot there? i would highly doubt rabies. vomiting and diarhea are not symptons ot it. and bats are not ugly. some of them are really cute. i like the white bats and would love to have one as a pet but they are an endangered species.

twinkletoes · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

I think its unlikely to be rabies~Done some searching on any cases that had come up and there was a few but pretty old. The Transmission and Spread of Rabies usually occurs when an infected animal bites a non-infected animal. The virus is passed by infected saliva through the bite. The virus has also been known to spread via the viral contamination of broken skin and from eye, nose and mouth mucous. It is also believed that the virus can spread through the air in bat infested caves.Rabies is a most dreaded disease, resulting in certain death, but incidences in the USA are extremely rare - In 1998 only one person died of rabies in the USA, although in other parts of the world such as Asia the incidences are far higher. In the UK and Australia the virus has been completely eradicated.

~But Done some looking around for symtoms on rabies and found this ..its pretty horrid to read near the end but it tells you the early signs..really dont want to scare the crap outta you though so i just put the early syptoms Just thought it might help

Dog Health Problems - Symptoms of Rabies
The virus moves through the body slowly whilst it moves along the nervous system to the brain. The incubation period for dogs can last up to six months. There are several distinct phases of an animal with rabies:

Incubation Period - can last from days to months
Prodromal phase - where first symptoms are displayed lasting 2 to 4 days
Furious phase - the 'mad dog' phase which can last between 2 and 4 days
Paralytic phase - the final 'dumb' phase lasting 2 to 4 days

Incubation Period

Virus grows in the muscle tissue
Virus moves along the central nervous system to the brain
The dog shows no signs of any illness
The process can take up to six months

Following the incubation period the disease progresses very quickly and the animal dies.

Prodromal Phase - First Symptoms of Rabies
This phase lasts 2 to 4 days and the following symptoms may be displayed:

Change in tone of the dog’s bark
Loss of Appetite
Fever
Small changes in behaviour

lil_exorcist · MAD DOG!

Thank you for looking that up for me Zoe. We're in the process of finding a vet, joy joy. Since we've only been here for 2 weeks we haven't found someone that is excessively expensive. Neither dog has gotten into anything (that I know of) we went for a walk the day the bat got in and Tiki was chewing the day lights out of sticks and twigs while I was talking. She seems fine so far today, a little sleepy I've noticed (but she was also running around on her tie out playing with Lola and some other local puppies) I'll keep an eye on her and if she gets worse or it continues I'll start making some phone calls.