Is it Safe to Handle a Wild Columbus Animal with Bare Hands?

• What can happen?
Handling wild Ohio animals with your bare hands is definitely not safe. There is a huge chance for rabies to be transmitted between the humans and the animals. This can be transmitted through the saliva or bite from the infected animals. The typical carriers of the rabies are the bats, foxes, skunks, racoons, and coyotes, also many mammals may get rabies too.



How to be safe?
In order to stay safe from rabies, Columbus animals that are injured, sick or orphaned should not be handled barehanded. Even if the look young and week, you may not be safe. In case any animal bites you, get yourself checked by a physician immediately. Using an antiseptic soap, scratch and scrub the wounds and flash the area with water several times.

• Raccoons and the disease they cause
The Ohio raccoons are very dangerous as they are the common host of the roundworms. More importantly, they are the host of the abdominal parasites called the Baylisacaris procyonis. For the raccoons, they are harmless but for the other species including the humans, they may prove to be potentially harmful or even fatal. While handling the raccoon feces or during the ingesting of their eggs, these parasites are transmitted. There is a high risk of being infected by this disease of the raccoons are handled without the use of protective gear.

• Cautions with wild animals
Wild Columbus animals should not be kept as pets as getting Involved with the wild animals is not always good. Let the doctor have a full diagnostic if scratched, bitten or even licked by a wild animal as if can prove to be fatal. If you find an abandoned animal, make sure that it is certainly abandoned as it is likely that its mother will come to get it. There is no chance of rehabilitation if the animal is rabid. Always call the people in charge if you find such wild animals and always use a blanket or gloves to put it in a safe area if it is at risk.

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