There are no hard and fast set symptoms of a Sarasota animal being sick because like humans and their pets wild animals can get different things wrong with them, from a pimple to cancer, animals get them all and they also like us react to all of them differently, we are all individuals no matter what species we are. The major things you have to watch out for the wild animals, well mammals anyway, are things like them staggering around aimlessly, foaming at the mouth and not seeming to have a real good idea of what they're doing or why they're doing it, if you see these kind of symptoms then you should be on the phone to your local animal control immediately because there is a fairly good chance an animal displaying all of those symptoms has advanced rabies and is contagious.



Just because a Florida animal behaves the peculiar fashion which after all is just it behaving in a fashion that you don't think is normal doesn't mean it is sick or diseased. The classic example of this has to be the opossum's please leave me alone routine. It will hiss, shake from side to side and appears to be totally deranged but it is just putting on a show for you because it wants to be left alone and the show usually works, when it doesn't work the animal usually gets killed because the person thinks it has rabies.

Most wild Sarasota animals that get sick don't live very long, I assume as with humans when animals get sick their senses get impaired as most animals are prey for something else then they become easy targets for predators. If an animal is seriously sick, like displaying obvious rabies symptoms, even other much larger predators will usually not go near them because they sense something is badly wrong and to approach the sick animal is not in their best interests. It is also probably part of nature's way of organizing things that sick animals don't survive for very long at all.

I constantly come across references from all kinds of authorities saying that if you come across what you think is a sick Floridaanimal then the best thing you can probably do is to watch the animal and wait to see what it does next, because a lot of the time the animal was not sick or injured is just doing something that you don't expect it to do.

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