Couple of things. Everywhere I’ve lived required a dog license and rabies vaccine. OTOH, the only way to enforce this is when your dog gets chunked in jail without tags.
Rabies is more rare than most seem to think. My drunk dumbass picked up a mouse on my wedding night and got bit. Panicked so I looked up the numbers. Turns out the mice and several other mammals won’t pass rabies to humans. Had no idea!
This county and the one next door are mostly wild, and I’m out in it, so this is a concern for me. Turns out that for the entire state of Florida, there were only 110 cases reported for all of 2024. 1 dog. Almost every other case was a coon or a bat.
Couple of things. Everywhere I’ve lived required a dog license and rabies vaccine. OTOH, the only way to enforce this is when your dog gets chunked in jail without tags.
Rabies is more rare than most seem to think. My drunk dumbass picked up a mouse on my wedding night and got bit. Panicked so I looked up the numbers. Turns out the mice and several other mammals won’t pass rabies to humans. Had no idea!
This county and the one next door are mostly wild, and I’m out in it, so this is a concern for me. Turns out that for the entire state of Florida, there were only 110 cases reported for all of 2024. 1 dog. Almost every other case was a coon or a bat.
https://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/rabies/_documents/rabies-case-map-2024.pdf
That’s a testament to our vaccine efforts over the decades. Sounds like we’ve already started losing our advantage.
Fun Fact: Did you know they have an oral vaccine that can be used as a sort of bait?