{"id":1162,"date":"2007-08-28T23:27:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2007-08-28T23:27:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:27:59","slug":"take-care-to-keep-rabies-from-affecting-pets-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/take-care-to-keep-rabies-from-affecting-pets-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Take care to keep rabies from affecting pets, family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently in Georgia, a calf that had been shown at a livestock event was diagnosed with rabies and had to be humanely euthanized. A veterinarian with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System says rabies in cattle is rare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we do see rabies in domesticated animals, it&#8217;s not the norm,&#8221; said Dr. Soren Rodning. &#8220;Recent studies show that more than 90 percent of all animals diagnosed as rabid are wild animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He points out that most reported cases of rabies in Alabama are in wildlife, primarily raccoons, bats, skunks and foxes.<\/p>\n<p>Rodning adds that it is important to have dogs and cats vaccinated for the fatal disease.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070825\/LIFESTYLE\/708250314\/1005\">click here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently in Georgia, a calf that had been shown at a livestock event was diagnosed with rabies and had to be humanely euthanized. A veterinarian with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System says rabies in cattle is rare. &#8220;While we do see rabies in domesticated animals, it&#8217;s not the norm,&#8221; said Dr. Soren Rodning. &#8220;Recent studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}