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Are Cougars Rabies Carriers. I’m suspicious like others here.
Almost all North American mammals are rabies carriers, including people. Opossums and some of the smaller rodents and lagomorphs are uncommon carriers and opossums virtually never. To be a 'carrier' pretty much just means that they can get it and survive for a period of time, usually a fairly short period of time, often less than a week. Mammals don't just carry it in their systems for their entire lives. If they have rabies, they are dying from it. It is almost 100% fatal.
Cougars can get rabies, but aberrant behaviors that people often attribute to animals having rabies can be caused by a whole host of other issues. Older animals (such as the bear that killed/ate Timothy Treadwell) may behave in manners not typical due to their advanced age and inability to procure food from other sources, for example. I know folks that kill raccoons they see in daylight because they believe coons never come out in daylight unless they have rabies, yet in summer time, raccoons will come down from their trees and hydrate in the middle of the day and then usually return back to their trees.
According to the Tueller drill, a human can cover 21' in 1.5 seconds. However no human can hit 40 to 50 MPH and a big cat can.
You are mixing information here. 21' in 1.5 seconds is from a standing start. While big cats like mountain lions can run 40-50 miles per hour, it is only for very short distances and only done when necessary. They will approach at a much slower speed if the animal is not already in motion. The reason for this is that the cat cannot change direction very quickly at high speed compared to lower speeds. If their prey bolts laterally and the cat is moving too fast, it will overshoot the prey, so they tend to ramp up speed at the last moment necessary. He supposedly shot the cat at 10 feet, not that he drew and fired when the cat was at 10 feet and the cat was running 40-50 mph. We don't know the distance of when the cat was first spotted, when the dog was on point.
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