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Iceland Gull - Gaivota-islândica (Larus glaucoides): 1st winter bird

Setúbal/Portugal (11/03/2026)

Three-striped Poison Frog (Ameerega trivittata), family Dendrobatidae, Peruvian Amazon

Twin-spot goby (Signigobius biocellatus) off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia

i know that they know that he looks like the dog from the mask 2 after it puts on the mask so im not going to bring it up

PL*Forest Eyes l’Bond

🐱 Norwegian Forest Cat

📸 Dorota Biskupska [Forest Eyes*PL]

🐱 Elf Sphynx [Elf Cat REFR]

📸 Maximus Frun [Elven Tale Cattery]

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There's one person working at the CDC right now with clinical experience with rabies. One.

This isn't solely down to anti-vaxxer sentiment, though. This is the same type of intentional gutting of public health that this administration is famous for and that does end up endangering human health. Individual states and municipalities still require rabies vaccination for domestic animals and will issue fines if you don't get your pets vaccinated. But a pre-exposure rabies vaccine isn't typically given to human beings unless they are intentionally placing themselves in an environment where the risk of contracting rabies is higher (e.g., a scientist studying bats or a wildlife rehabilitation specialist).

Human rabies vaccination is typically post-exposure prophylaxis (a series of shots after suspected exposure to the virus). What pausing rabies surveillance does is blind us to current and future rabies outbreaks in animal populations, which then raises the likelihood of increased rabies exposure in humans.

It's the rabies vaccine legally required for dogs and cats? Yes.

Are there communities online that make fake rabies certificates that I've seen people admit to using? Yes.

Are some counties/cities so backed up and understaffed that there are people who have never received something telling them to license their dog and people use that as an excuse to not get the rabies vaccine? Yes.

Do people have outdoor cats that they simply never take to the vet? Yes.

Do many breeders tell people to delay or even avoid the rabies vaccine entirely? Yes.

An unvaccinated dog gets bit by something and owners don't notice and this dog, in the early stages, goes to... a dog park, or a family gathering and bites/licks people/dogs and now we've got mass rabies outbreaks.

Once, many years ago, a family member once was bitten by a local, usually-friendly indoor-outdoor cat, and I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that the owners had actually vaccinated him. Thankfully, this was years before the antivax rot got prevalent, because the family member in question of course took the proof of rabies vaccine as sufficient reason to not get the postexposure shots. Nowadays, I would be extremely wary of just trusting that, because it could have been faked (and you DON'T fuck around with rabies), but you'd probably run into your health insurance bitching about paying for the shots when you weren't electing to (posthumously!) test the animal.

Every animal that came in to my shelter was vaccinated on either intake day or the day after. If they were old enough, this included a rabies vaccine.

Those are actually not spiky feathers at all! They sure do look like it, though, and that's likely the point- if I were a raptor looking down upon a pincushion, I would think twice about grabbing it with my bare feet.

However, it's a ruse! Just a marking on a feather

Niinku