Rusty Mase wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:51:59 GMT, "Cindy"
wrote:

What about skunks? I thought the rationale behind banning skunks as
pets is that they carry rabies. Or are they not rodents?

No, skunks are not Rodents, they are Carnivores. The main carriers of
rabies are all Carnivores except for bats. So between bats and
Carnivores there are not many carriers of rabies and possibly not any.

Take for example horses. Horses bite people on occassion and yet I
have never heard of a horse being sacrificed for a rabies test.

On the other hand if something bites you and you do not know much
about what bit you then you really should ask a doctor. Hopefully, if
you encountered a house mouse that took a nip out of your finger, the
doctor would know not run you through rabies injections.

Rusty Mase

Hell I'd be dead by now I guess if rodents carried it. I've been bit often
enough. I just hadn't ever really thought about it, and skunks sort of seem
like rodents.

I've always wanted a pet skunk....had a baby one for awhile whose mother got
shot (not by me), but it suffocated in the heat pad I was using to keep it
warm.

Cindy