Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Can touching a bird nest freshly attached by a raccoon give you rabies?

We've been videoing a robin's nest under our deck since she laid the eggs, and all four were big and fluffy and getting ready to fly any day, then just tonight we happened to glance over and saw fur in the camera instead of the babies with mamma nestled on top of them, and my boyfriend ran out right away and started stomping on the deck. The raccoon took off and we went down to check the babies. One didn't make it but we got three into a large container, and I grabbed the fallen nest and put it in with them... I washed my hands right away, but I have little cuts here and there on my hands but on the back of my hand not my finger pads that i touched it with. I washed right away and then again when we brought the babies up... We have the babies out on the deck and watching them for any return of the raccoon, but I wanna know if there's any chance I could catch something? The raccoon ran off right away, my boyfriend was going around looking for it with a BB gun, but could it have drooled on the nest or something...?

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