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If Flavor Truck doesn't mind, I did AC for about 10 years so I can also answer questions. Did a thread in PI about it some years back which has fallen into archives.
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EXTREME INSERTION posted:Did you see any pet sharks, wolf dogs, or tigers?
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You get to developing a really thick skin, but stuff can still get to you. Burnout due more to heavy workload - like most AC departments we were understaffed and underfunded. I was fine while working but in the time after I quit I had a bit of mild, I dunno, PTSD about it. Like "goddamn, how did I deal with that all the time?" We did get animal first aid taught to us and carried a small med kit in our trucks. Really basic, like how to stop bleeding and the like. Not much different from a basic human first aid course. As far as rabies goes, if it was a suspected exposure then it depended on the animal's vaccination status. If current a 10-day quarantine at home, if not either strict 6 month quarantine at a vet's office or euthanasia for immediate testing. Wild animals like bats and raccoons usually got euthed and tested right away. Never encountered a domestic animal suspected of being actually rabid. The vaccines work great and it's why they're stressed so heavily. It's nothing to gently caress around with. Fun fact: I am vaccinated against rabies. They didn't give me a tag to wear though 
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Jul 6, 2015 21:07
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Prophylaxis rabies shots are no different than any other kind of vaccine - got mine in the upper left arm. The poo poo is like syrup though and it feels like Mike Tyson punched you there for a couple of days. "Treatment" rabies shots consist of 1 immunoglobulin shot and then 4 followups over 2 weeks. I think the abdominal stuff is how they used to do it way back in the day. Luckily people are fairly naturally resistant to rabies, it's just that it's 99.9% fatal if you do get it so nobody wants to gently caress around. Other fun rabies facts: it's only transmitted by/to mammals. Birds and reptiles carry no risk. The further away from the brain you're bitten, the longer it takes to manifest symptoms. An animal can be carrying rabies but not be contagious yet if it hasn't gotten to the brain. The virus is transmitted through saliva. Blood is not a risk. Bats are most commonly associated with rabies, but skunks and raccoons are usually worse carriers and way more likely to bite you than a bat, which aren't really aggressive. Most human to bat exposures involve children or babies, either by them finding a sick bat and playing with it or a rabid bat ending up in a crib. The only recorded human-to-human rabies transmissions have occurred from organ transplants 
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Jul 8, 2015 01:32
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Tamarillo posted:We don't have rabies in Aus/NZ and there were a bunch of people being all "OH customs you guys are a bag of dicks for not letting Johnny Depp keep his dogs that he smuggled into Australia without quarantine, SO MEAN" 
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Mine were very good. Sometimes a couple of them would act put out to help us but for the most part they were excellent. In one jurisdiction we serviced a few of the officers would call me directly if they found an animal problem that was especially bad like dogfighting (because a couple of the people that worked for us were  and they knew I would handle it competently) and I'd just radio dispatch that I needed a case to assist an officer and off I'd go. Also when I was a young pup I worked in a coffee place and it was in the bad part of town so the cops were there constantly and I got to know a lot of them so when I was working AC they'd drop everything to come help if I needed backup. It was like having very overprotective aunts/uncles coming to your aid  The dog thing would never happen with us because we always had somebody working and if it was an important call they'd wake you up if you were on call. If it was just a DOA they'd let dispatch know who'd write up a call to be put into queue for the next normal shift, if it was when we had regular hours we'd go pick it up then.
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