 coon and muskrat?
#266402 - 02/24/2010 02:39 PM |
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What about feeding raccoon and/or muskrat to my dog? Ive tried a goole search and did find once forum that 1 person said they feed muskrat but so far nothing else has turned up. While we're on this...what about beaver, ground hogs and moles?
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Re: coon and muskrat?
[Re: Angie Stark ]
#266406 - 02/24/2010 02:57 PM |
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Angie, depending on where you live, I'd be very careful about racoon. In Virginia they are a huge carrier of rabies. Granted, any mammal can be, but that was just the first thing that came to my mind. The more experienced will chime in later, I'm sure.
Meant to add that I used to have a dog that LOVED hunting and eating moles and she never had a problem. If she could have caught a beaver or ground hog it would definitely have been dinner as well. 
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#266407 - 02/24/2010 03:01 PM |
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this and other parasites is my concern and why Im asking. I have been told that rabbit and squirrel have to be frozen below zero degrees for a year prior to feeding for them to be ok.
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[Re: Barbara Schuler ]
#266409 - 02/24/2010 03:06 PM |
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I wouldn't do it in the case of raccoon. Raccoons are filthy parasite and disease bearing critters. Rabies, distemper, and lepto to start with. Then just add in their neurological attacking parasites and I'm done with that idea. Personally I won't eat one unless it's cooked through to the point that it's pretty well stewed.
As far as rodents I don't see why muskrat would be out anymore than nutria.
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#266417 - 02/24/2010 04:12 PM |
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Thought I'd would chime in. My backyard is a fish and game reserve. My K9's GSD's hunt eat eat everything the reserve offers from deer, raccoons, possums and rats and I never had one problem. My K9's are on a raw diet- I believe a K9 fed dry or canned food would have stomach distress suddenly eating raw meat such as raccoon.
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#266418 - 02/24/2010 04:19 PM |
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I am going to repeat what others have said, raccoons DO carry rabies. Now, as long as the dog has been vaccinated (for rabies), if it should kill one and munch on it in the woods or on the farm, it'll probably be okay. However, one way animals catch rabies is from eating the nerve tissue of a rabid animal. Raccoons and skunks often get it from eating a rabid bat (scavenging).
BTW, I heard of a story of a GSD bring home a raccoon (half eaten, of course) up on a ranch in Wyoming. One of the children started messing around with the carcass. The dog had been vaccinated, but the child had to go through rabies post exposure prophylaxis.
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#266425 - 02/24/2010 05:02 PM |
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Here is a guideline that I heard a lady use on a yahoo list.
She never fed pointy teeth to pointy teeth. I think that is good advice to follow.
I think that animals that eat a similar diet don't need to eat eachother. Coon's are probably more omnivorous, but they still eat meat.
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#266426 - 02/24/2010 05:04 PM |
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ok, that makes sense to me and is easy to follow. Thanks!
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#266427 - 02/24/2010 05:11 PM |
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ok, that makes sense to me and is easy to follow. Thanks! Well, I have little more to back it up than a hunch.
It just makes sense in my head.:smile:
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#266434 - 02/24/2010 05:59 PM |
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Raccoons are filthy parasite and disease bearing critters. Rabies, distemper, and lepto to start with. Then just add in their neurological attacking parasites and I'm done with that idea.
I am with Melissa on this one. Just last weekend, I was watching one of those shows on Discovery Health about this little boy who had come into contact (from crawling on the ground outside)with
a round worm, that raccoons are a primary carrier of, that the baby ingested and the round worms went to his brain. It was pretty bad, what happened to the baby.
Not to be alarming, but for sure Racoon should be off the list.
As a city girl, I never knew much about Racoons, but I know now!
Joyce Salazar
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