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I booped a squirrel (i.imgur.com)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by yucandu@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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No squirrels were harmed and I worshed my hands after.

EDIT: Also I feed the squirrels, we're chill, that's why this one was so comfortable having his back turned to the gate. He just got a little too greedy.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They can be rabid, but they'd have to bite you to transmit that.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

As a trained squirrel handler, while it's not impossible for a squirrel to get rabies, there is probably a single digit number of them out there at any given moment.

At least in the US, no one has ever gotten rabies from a squirrel.

Your rabies prone species are bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons, and skunks.

That said, it's unadvisable to touch any wild animals. (Though I'd still boop that squirrel.)