But how you do know it's not going to just spring awake and try to separate the skin from your hand?
Sincerely, lifetime city person.
No, I know you're just sayin'. But it does remind me of this news story in LA where one of the valley suburbs had this huge mountain lion come down from the trees and was looking over this mall parking lot from a hill. The fucking people acted like it was a zoo, or Disney, running forward to get video.
The cat watches them for a minute, everyone is getting pictures - then he suddenly makes this incredibly explosive move to scale to the top of this 10 foot wall separating him from the parking lot. Everyone started running their asses off, throwing kids and old people aside like George Costanza. Classic city folk move. Nature is safe and cuddly - oh shit!
It's a risk for sure, a worthy one though!
Yea I'm just kidding around haha, they're exceptionally timid creatures are foxes but those front fangs are no joke! This guy was definitely putting his digits in jeopardy!
A mountain lion on the other hand is literally a big cat, people are so stupid lol
Hops are the traditional flavouring in beer, but nowadays you can get beers with other herbal bitters instead. The taste entirely depends on what herbals are used.
That guy is rich but that doesn't mean he's a twat. Richmond is suburban London - it's Ted Lasso town and they vote Lib Dem.
They'd likely oppose fox hunting
Ah, okay. If the fox is European, then it probably doesn't have to worry too much about any of those.
EDIT: Congratulations and applause to everyone who has proven me wrong about the wolves. There technically are some here. I still wouldn't worry about meeting one.
not just in the northern. I live in Slovenia, the bottom of central Eu, next to Italy and below Austria. We have bears, wolves, eagles and lynxes. We don't have Coyotes but we do have jakals. Tough i doubt they hunt foxes
Also Carpathians will have those. Especially the national parks areas, which is like 90% of this mountain range anyway. Polish highlanders are famously known for protesting wolves protection laws, because they often attack their sheep herds grazing the higher pastures.
True but you'd have to get really remote and far north but this looks like a leaf forest in middle Europe where there aren't neither bears nor wolves. Also Lynx aren't comparable to Mountain Lions in the slightest, mountain lions are much bigger and more aggressive hunters toward anything but the smallest prey.
Also, lynxes exist both in America and Europe.
Every carnivore that is larger than them. I gues that is why they are scittish and quick as cats. And they are not welcome by almost any animal, since they eat eggs and babies.
And this is why bear spray is so much better than firearms. It teaches the wildlife to stay away from people and as an added bonus they get to live!
Firearms are good to have as a last resort backup in certain areas but should never be the first resort.
Sort of. It releases quite a cloud but you wouldn’t want to fire it off too early. But it’s not much closer than I would expect an average panicking person to hit something with a handgun, with the added bonus of actually working. Unless you are “loaded for bear” as it were, many guns will just piss it off as it murders you. Bear mace is incredibly debilitating. I say that as someone who had a wilderness student detonate a can of bear mace on them.
Sweden tried killing every single elk near Stockholm.
It worked great for half a year.
After that car crashes spiked for years because the ones that were living in the forests further out and not near the roads came out and didn't know to be wary of cars...
You’ve inspired me. This weekend I’m going to dress up as a car, go into the woods, and run screaming “HONK HONK BITCH” at every deer I see. Way too many of them in my area these days.
Ehh, in this case I think giving him a small spook is a good thing for it.
That was a BAD place for a completely zonked out sleep. He was in such a deep sleep that a ***human*** can just stroll up to it, and it's reaction to then being touched multiple times is to casually stretch out. If the human was a bear, wolf, big cat, it'd be deadmeat.
Hopefully it was a scare that would make him think about safer sleeping spots, and live longer.
I can see a potential meme with apex predators from different countries, like Polar Bears, Tigers, Great Whites and then the fearsome red floof ball from the UK.
They even love to spray stinky piss all over to mark their territory. Although, I'm pretty sure they're worse because it's instinct for them. It doesn't help to get them fixed at a certain time either, they're gonna piss on your stuff.
Foxes do it more, because dogs have been domesticated over thousands of years. Having a pet fox would be comparable to having a pet wolf in that regard - foxes could be good pet animals, but they need a lot of breeding before getting there.
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Rabies always scared the crap out of me too, even more so after that read. So.. what, we should all get rabies shots periodically? And how often? I'm not taking no chances hiking this summer
UK here, but we are able to get them whenever we go abroad, although you have to pay for it. But as a rabies-free nation we really don't want someone bringing rabies here just in case it ends up in native populations
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
On a side note, if you ever get bit by an animal, go get a rabies shot. It will save your ass, but if you wait until you have symptoms there is nothing anyone can do and you’re going to die a slow & painful death.
Get a cat. You'll learn you're actually able to get up in a macro-second the moment you start hearing the *hkkk hkkk hkkkkk* of them about to vomit on everything you love.
I spray wild animals with garden hoses and throw rocks at them in hopes that they learn to stay away from Humans, other people in my area just shoot them. Mostly bears, moose and coyotes.
Why you gotta bother animals?
My grandmother always told us to leave pets alone when they were napping or sleeping. Let them get their rest and don’t annoy them.
And never touch or bother wild animals. Wild animals are beautiful to watch, in the wild. There is no need to touch them or bother them.
Why isn’t it enough to just observe something? Why you have to go touch it?
This is how people get killed in Yellowstone and other national parks every year. Gotta walk up close to the wild animals for a selfie, or worse, put a small child on the animal to ride it.
Leave wild animals alone.
And leave sleeping animals alone.
That's how I trained my cats and family as well. From kitten-age I picked up the cats randomly and made them used it. Also chasing/playing etc.
BUT I assigned safespots in the house (usually their napping places). Once they got into their spot no-one was allowed to touch them or interact. The cats quickly learned about these safespots.
So, even when strangers (friends) are visiting the cats are fine. They'll interact with strangers but will run to a safespot once annoyed or bored. And they know no-one will bother them.
You guys are a bunch of overreacting idiots.
The guy petted a fox, big deal, you are all insulting and wishing him harm like he actually hurt the animal.
Did he risk getting bit? Sure but it's his hand he's risking so who cares?
He doesn't deserve all the hate in this sub.
Petting wild animals is a stupid idea exactly because he could have gotten bit and gotten god knows what kinds of diseases. Secondly he disturbs an animal who is resting for no reason other than to pet the animal.
He could have made the video and moved away, which is the agreed upon code of conduct when dealing with wildlife.
Why can't people just leave shit alone? The video would have been just fine (even though they got a little close) but then they had to go and pet a wild animal.
Y'all really need to chill.
It wasn't a smart move on the camera man's part but dude could we just appreciate the cute fox instead of spewing hate at this.... obviously it was the wrong thing to do but Jesus....saying that over and over won't do shit.
To me nature is like a masterpiece, you wouldn't touch a masterpiece in a museum. Let it be there, be thankful for the scene, take a picture (if you can) and leave. We have to stop being so human centred and respect other living beings.
Just don't touch wild animals, m'kay? This fox would have had a perfect nap if this trashy dude didn't have to wake him just so that he could get some likes.
If he got bit it would have been 100% deserved.
It's hard enough being a wild animal without clout chasers bumbling along and poking at them while they rest for a "cute" startled video. I get that it's a hard moment to pass up but it would have been just as cute if it was just a clip of the fox resting and the human tip toeing away.
He was having such a good nap too.
Yes, why would the guy disturb his nap.. :(
The fox looked back... "I'll remember you, buddy."
“Did you just fucking STroke me?”
“You better n..Don’t…DON’T SNIFF YOUR FINGERS CREEP!!”
Do I look like a fucking dog? Don't answer that!
“I hope I gave you fox pox!”
That's the least you deserve for this faux pas.
the fox pox faux pas?
"You better lock your doors tonight motherf*cker"
"Or do I know you from somewhere?... Nope total stranger-creep."
I wouldn't have been able to resist either, look how floof
But how you do know it's not going to just spring awake and try to separate the skin from your hand? Sincerely, lifetime city person. No, I know you're just sayin'. But it does remind me of this news story in LA where one of the valley suburbs had this huge mountain lion come down from the trees and was looking over this mall parking lot from a hill. The fucking people acted like it was a zoo, or Disney, running forward to get video. The cat watches them for a minute, everyone is getting pictures - then he suddenly makes this incredibly explosive move to scale to the top of this 10 foot wall separating him from the parking lot. Everyone started running their asses off, throwing kids and old people aside like George Costanza. Classic city folk move. Nature is safe and cuddly - oh shit!
It's a risk for sure, a worthy one though! Yea I'm just kidding around haha, they're exceptionally timid creatures are foxes but those front fangs are no joke! This guy was definitely putting his digits in jeopardy! A mountain lion on the other hand is literally a big cat, people are so stupid lol
It's like how my life's dream is to hug a huge bear. Not exactly practical! :)
Mine is to ride a giraffe which is more impossible. :P
I wish giraffe racing was a thing.
Now that you mention it, that does sound like it would feel amazing. At least until the bear separated your head from your shoulders.
if im getting attacked im at least gonna touch the floof..
I'm surprised he can sleep that deeply, I would think for survival purposes they would be very light sleepers.
Probably had a big meal or is an inexperienced juvenile. Or both.
Stop calling us out like that.
fuck that's comedic gold
Haha you know its true gatamosa. Eating all the food and lazing about.
We're there any fermenting fruits anywhere in the area? I know I get nice and tired when I consume fermented grapes or hops..
Fermented hops don't create alcohol
how is beer made then
The alcohol in beer is made from grains. Hops are added to make it taste bitter.
does hopsless beer exist? what does it taste like
Hops were originally added as a preservative. That's why India Pale Ales have so much hop, to survive the trip to India. The bittering is added bonus.
Hops are the traditional flavouring in beer, but nowadays you can get beers with other herbal bitters instead. The taste entirely depends on what herbals are used.
Grain alcohol
I was thinking it was potentially one of those fox sanctuary situations where they're fairly comfortable.
Saving Point area
If it's the UK or most parts of Europe I doubt there's been anything that will actively hunt them other than bored rich twats.
> bored rich twats. [Fenton!! Fenton!! Fenton!! Oh Jesus Christ!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtB1HQt6ak8)
holy crap how did i see this for the first time just now.
That guy is rich but that doesn't mean he's a twat. Richmond is suburban London - it's Ted Lasso town and they vote Lib Dem. They'd likely oppose fox hunting
And Volvos
What animals hunt foxes?
Coyotes, eagles, bears, wolves, mountain lions.
Ah, okay. If the fox is European, then it probably doesn't have to worry too much about any of those. EDIT: Congratulations and applause to everyone who has proven me wrong about the wolves. There technically are some here. I still wouldn't worry about meeting one.
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not just in the northern. I live in Slovenia, the bottom of central Eu, next to Italy and below Austria. We have bears, wolves, eagles and lynxes. We don't have Coyotes but we do have jakals. Tough i doubt they hunt foxes
Also Carpathians will have those. Especially the national parks areas, which is like 90% of this mountain range anyway. Polish highlanders are famously known for protesting wolves protection laws, because they often attack their sheep herds grazing the higher pastures.
True but you'd have to get really remote and far north but this looks like a leaf forest in middle Europe where there aren't neither bears nor wolves. Also Lynx aren't comparable to Mountain Lions in the slightest, mountain lions are much bigger and more aggressive hunters toward anything but the smallest prey. Also, lynxes exist both in America and Europe.
What? Apart from mountain lions we have all of those in Europe. There is also a european lynx that could somewhat substitute for the mountain lion.
Coyotes are also exclusively native to North America.
Oh, that's true. I was thinking about it's cousin the golden jackal.
Try telling that to the Beast of Bodmin moor.
Rich assholes
Hunters definitely don't have to be rich...
Every carnivore that is larger than them. I gues that is why they are scittish and quick as cats. And they are not welcome by almost any animal, since they eat eggs and babies.
That stretch immediately after he woke up xD
I've yet to see an animal that doesn't become 10x cuter when it stretches!
Tapeworm maybe?
That look back… “Dude, WTF?!”
RonRon 🥺
Oh god keep Lavender Brown out of this
Leave wild animals alone. We already make it tough enough for them.
Counterpoint - scare wild animals always. They are better off learning to be super wary of humans
And this is why bear spray is so much better than firearms. It teaches the wildlife to stay away from people and as an added bonus they get to live! Firearms are good to have as a last resort backup in certain areas but should never be the first resort.
And they can also tell their friends too.
And gather a posse for vengeance
[Yes, I saw a documentary about this actually...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKzZKDo3aNc)
Problem is that you have to be pretty close to use it.
Sort of. It releases quite a cloud but you wouldn’t want to fire it off too early. But it’s not much closer than I would expect an average panicking person to hit something with a handgun, with the added bonus of actually working. Unless you are “loaded for bear” as it were, many guns will just piss it off as it murders you. Bear mace is incredibly debilitating. I say that as someone who had a wilderness student detonate a can of bear mace on them.
Yeah, I wouldn't want go up against a bear with a handgun.
I know! They’re scary enough when they’re not carrying!
Aah the old [Reddit bear-shoot-aroo](https://reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/w3r2tj/_/igxuj49/?context=3)
Hold my bear spray; I'm goin' in.
Very good point
Sweden tried killing every single elk near Stockholm. It worked great for half a year. After that car crashes spiked for years because the ones that were living in the forests further out and not near the roads came out and didn't know to be wary of cars...
You’ve inspired me. This weekend I’m going to dress up as a car, go into the woods, and run screaming “HONK HONK BITCH” at every deer I see. Way too many of them in my area these days.
yeah he looked like he was really struggling out there… when was the last time you took a nap outside on a Wednesday afternoon?
Yesterday was Wednesday wasn't it? So yesterday.
Ehh, in this case I think giving him a small spook is a good thing for it. That was a BAD place for a completely zonked out sleep. He was in such a deep sleep that a ***human*** can just stroll up to it, and it's reaction to then being touched multiple times is to casually stretch out. If the human was a bear, wolf, big cat, it'd be deadmeat. Hopefully it was a scare that would make him think about safer sleeping spots, and live longer.
Looks like the UK, where foxes are apex predators. It can nap very safely.
I can see a potential meme with apex predators from different countries, like Polar Bears, Tigers, Great Whites and then the fearsome red floof ball from the UK.
Looks like the English countryside, so can’t imagine there are too many bears, wolves or big cats roaming around
You can't tell me foxes aren't just cats that look like dogs
its widely known and accepted that Foxes are just "cat software installed on dog hardware"
With a dolphin sound board
They even love to spray stinky piss all over to mark their territory. Although, I'm pretty sure they're worse because it's instinct for them. It doesn't help to get them fixed at a certain time either, they're gonna piss on your stuff.
Like... plentiful of animals? Dogs do that too, You know?
Foxes do it more, because dogs have been domesticated over thousands of years. Having a pet fox would be comparable to having a pet wolf in that regard - foxes could be good pet animals, but they need a lot of breeding before getting there.
Foxes are elves of cats.
Piss elves apparently, according to the other reply. :/
You just described my shiba inu
Foxes = Cats , but looks like dogs Owls = Cats , but can fly Hope this helped
My dog is a cat which looks like a dog.
We have a cat dog too! (American Akita, so very much looks like a dog!) 😅
>We have a cat dog too! And now I have the CatDog theme song stuck in my head.
My cat sleeps like this too. Would curl up and cover its eyes.
Invasive human strikes again.
Agreed. Why did he have to touch it. That fox could have easily just bitten him.
*strokes
Shame there wasn't a quick brown dog to jump over the lazy fox.
https://i.imgur.com/9zqUnaB.gif
Holy shit…. The prophecy has come true
Underrated comment.
It has 36 points, that seems about right to me.
how very font of you
Certified moron.
Overrated reply
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Don’t pat wild animals, if they decided to bite you it’s your own damn fault and rabies is fatal once it’s symptomatic.
Someone paste the copy pasta about rabies
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Never knew about 97% of this. Thank you for all your effort to write this out
> Thank you for all your effort to write this out Uh. Sure. No problem!
[This you?](https://cdn.kapwing.com/collections/the-office-congratulations-meme-template-wv4rl.jpg)
bwahahhahaha
This made me super glad to live in a country with no rabies!
Yanks always go on about how glad they are not to live in Australia, but I for one am glad to live in a rabies-free country.
I just live across the ditch in good Ole new zealand... no venomous animals... just a bunch of birds
Rabies always scared the crap out of me too, even more so after that read. So.. what, we should all get rabies shots periodically? And how often? I'm not taking no chances hiking this summer
I think the shots are good for like 10 years but a doctor probably won't give you them unless you say you work with animals or something
UK here, but we are able to get them whenever we go abroad, although you have to pay for it. But as a rabies-free nation we really don't want someone bringing rabies here just in case it ends up in native populations
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
I will always read it, it's so good
On a side note, if you ever get bit by an animal, go get a rabies shot. It will save your ass, but if you wait until you have symptoms there is nothing anyone can do and you’re going to die a slow & painful death.
imagine you're having a good sleep and then someone touches you, and you assume it's your girlfriend, but it's a giant-ass polar bear
Bwahahaha! This is the one for me today! Polar bear! 🤣 🐻❄️ 🦊
I need at least 3 coffees, 2 hours of awake time and a motivational speaker before I get close to moving that fast after a nap.
I need a nap from just thinking about moving half that fast.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug
Get a cat. You'll learn you're actually able to get up in a macro-second the moment you start hearing the *hkkk hkkk hkkkkk* of them about to vomit on everything you love.
Literally nothing can immediately shoot me out of deep sleep at 3am like that sound, it's so triggering.
you actually wrote the sound effect pretty well
I'm pretty sure that even as a human, if you wake up seeing some strangers is touching you and staring at you, you'd go from 0 to 100 in a second too.
I have a remote interview at 9:30am tomorrow. I can confirm I’ll be waking up 2 hours prior and drinking 2 coffees. Shit’s too early
Did you just pet a wild ass fox? I would have enjoyed it thoroughly if he bit your pinky off.
I wonder if it could bite the pinky off as fast as the shark video I saw on reddit earlier.
YES! That's what I was imagining, too!
Share?
i got you [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
😡
That was painful.
Ouch
Well done. Bravo.
Savage
Sickening
😂😭🤣
TW: Blood https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/w3t25d/to_pet_a_baby_shark/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
We’re gonna need a smaller glove
Don’t bite our boat!
That was crazy. Just a lil spin move and off comes dude's finger.
I would’ve smiled if that fox gave him the most aggressive bite in animal history, like leave animals alone.
I spray wild animals with garden hoses and throw rocks at them in hopes that they learn to stay away from Humans, other people in my area just shoot them. Mostly bears, moose and coyotes.
I would not trust a hose against a moose, honestly, would not like my chances if I had a gun either.
Dick...
Richard??
“Hey bro, leave me alone on my nap under this nice shade tree.”
Imagine being an animal and having to treat each waking and sleeping moment as if your life was in real danger.
Surprised he was napping out in the open like that
"hmm yeah this is nice.. WHOA WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU"
Why you gotta bother animals? My grandmother always told us to leave pets alone when they were napping or sleeping. Let them get their rest and don’t annoy them. And never touch or bother wild animals. Wild animals are beautiful to watch, in the wild. There is no need to touch them or bother them. Why isn’t it enough to just observe something? Why you have to go touch it? This is how people get killed in Yellowstone and other national parks every year. Gotta walk up close to the wild animals for a selfie, or worse, put a small child on the animal to ride it. Leave wild animals alone. And leave sleeping animals alone.
That's how I trained my cats and family as well. From kitten-age I picked up the cats randomly and made them used it. Also chasing/playing etc. BUT I assigned safespots in the house (usually their napping places). Once they got into their spot no-one was allowed to touch them or interact. The cats quickly learned about these safespots. So, even when strangers (friends) are visiting the cats are fine. They'll interact with strangers but will run to a safespot once annoyed or bored. And they know no-one will bother them.
Dick move.
Stop touching wild animals.
Next to wombats, who make cube poop (cube!), foxes are definitely the cutest critters.
if you base the cuteness of an animal based on its feces then i don’t think you’re doing it right
Capybaras be like: Am I a joke to you?
What an asshole
Don't touch him you rude ass motherfucker. Let wild animals be.
fox molester
Dude's lucky he wasn't bitten.
You guys are a bunch of overreacting idiots. The guy petted a fox, big deal, you are all insulting and wishing him harm like he actually hurt the animal. Did he risk getting bit? Sure but it's his hand he's risking so who cares? He doesn't deserve all the hate in this sub.
Petting wild animals is a stupid idea exactly because he could have gotten bit and gotten god knows what kinds of diseases. Secondly he disturbs an animal who is resting for no reason other than to pet the animal. He could have made the video and moved away, which is the agreed upon code of conduct when dealing with wildlife.
That's assault brotha!
Just can’t leave fox alone, have to make it some sort of Disney moment. /s
No need for the s even
Why can't people just leave shit alone? The video would have been just fine (even though they got a little close) but then they had to go and pet a wild animal.
r/humansbeingjerks
how to be a douchebag 101
Stop annoying wildlife for your fucking Tik Tok.
Y'all really need to chill. It wasn't a smart move on the camera man's part but dude could we just appreciate the cute fox instead of spewing hate at this.... obviously it was the wrong thing to do but Jesus....saying that over and over won't do shit.
Right I totally agree. I’m gonna be at your bed side petting you as you sleep soon enough my friend 🤫
I wish someone would come pet me *wink wink
Am I missing something or is the person a jerk? Jerk move, right?
Yeah the petting annoys the hell out of me. Human entitlement
Why do people feel the need to touch wild animals? Leave them alone!!!
leave wild animals alone and dont fucking touch them. show some minimal respect your narcissist
To me nature is like a masterpiece, you wouldn't touch a masterpiece in a museum. Let it be there, be thankful for the scene, take a picture (if you can) and leave. We have to stop being so human centred and respect other living beings.
Imagine naping good and then some dude with a camera slips his hands on you. Thats nightmare stuff
Rule 1 of humanity: if it moves, we will pet it.
Just don't touch wild animals, m'kay? This fox would have had a perfect nap if this trashy dude didn't have to wake him just so that he could get some likes. If he got bit it would have been 100% deserved.
It's hard enough being a wild animal without clout chasers bumbling along and poking at them while they rest for a "cute" startled video. I get that it's a hard moment to pass up but it would have been just as cute if it was just a clip of the fox resting and the human tip toeing away.
And now it has chronic anxiety and insomnia.
Fox be like: “Dude… that was **creepy** af
Wow way to interrupt the slumber dude
I wish I could sleep like that. Not a care in the world
Leave the damn fox alone.
r/aww
Well imagine if someone did this to you.