You should contact her vet. Usually, domestic mice do not have rabies, but the vet may feel that there is a need for a rabies booster. Rabies Fact Sheet
What Is Rabies?
Rabies is a deadly disease caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system. The virus is present in the saliva and nervous tissue of a rabid animal.
What Animals Can Get Rabies?
Rabies is most often seen among wild mammals such as raccoons, bats, skunks and foxes. Cats, dogs, ferrets and livestock can also get rabies if they are not vaccinated to protect them. Deer and large rodents, such as woodchucks, have been found rabid in areas affected by raccoon rabies.
Some animals almost never get rabies. These include wild rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, rats, mice, guinea pigs, gerbils and hamsters. They can get rabies, but it almost never happens.
There are other animals that never ever get rabies. They are birds, snakes, fish, turtles, lizards and insects.
What Are The Signs Of Rabies In Animals?
The first sign of rabies is usually a change in the animal's behavior. It may become unusually aggressive or unusually tame. The animal may lose fear of people and natural enemies. It may become excited, irritable and snap at anything in its path. Or, it may appear affectionate and friendly. Staggering, convulsions, spitting, choking, frothing at the mouth and paralysis are sometimes noted. Many animals have a marked change in voice. The animal usually dies within one week after showing signs of rabies.
How Do People Become Exposed To Rabies?
People usually get exposed to the rabies virus when an infected animal bites them. Exposure may also occur if saliva enters a scratch, open cut or mucous membrane (eyes, nose, mouth).
What Should You Do If You Are Exposed To Rabies?
Wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water and seek medical attention immediately. Contact your doctor and your county health authority immediately. Try to capture the animal without damaging its head or risking further exposure.
If an apparently healthy domestic dog, cat, ferret or other domestic animal bites a person, it must be captured, confined, and observed daily for ten days following the bite. If it remains healthy during this period, the animal did not transmit rabies at the time of the bite. All wild animals must be tested for rabies if human exposures have occurred.
Report all animal bites to the county health authority.
If a rabies-suspect biting animal cannot be observed or tested, or it tests positive for rabies, treatment should begin immediately. Human treatment consists of a dose of rabies immune globulin administered as soon as possible after exposure. If there is a wound, the full dose of immune globulin should go into the wound, if possible. The first of five doses of rabies vaccine is given at the same time, with the remaining injections given one each on days 3, 7, 14, and 28 following the initial injection.
People in high-risk occupations such as veterinarians, wildlife biologists, wildlife rehabilitators, animal control officers and taxidermists should consider obtaining rabies pre-exposure vaccination which consists of three injections of rabies vaccine in the arm, the first two a week apart, and the third 14 to 21 days later. A blood sample should be checked after two years and annually thereafter to determine the need for an additional injection of vaccine (booster) if the risk of contact continues. A person already vaccinated and later exposed to rabies must receive two booster injections three days apart immediately after exposure.
What If My Pet Is Exposed To A Rabid Animal?
If your pet has been in a fight with another animal, wear gloves to handle it. Isolate it from other animals and people for several hours. Call your veterinarian. Your vaccinated pet will need a booster immunization with rabies vaccine within five days of the exposure. Unvaccinated animals exposed to a known or suspected rabid animal must be confined for six months or humanely destroyed.If my dog bit a field mouse would she b ill?
Mice and rats can carry diseases, also if they had been poisoned that could be dangerous for the dog. When in doubt, call the vet. Especially if the dog starts to vomit or has blood in stool or urine or anything adverse to their health. She may be snappin and barking because she doesn't feel well and doesn't want anyone to touch her.
She could pick up a parasite if the mouse was infected. Sometimes rodents carry more serious diseases, which does include rabies, but if she has had her rabies vaccine, she should be okay.
Barking may be her way of saying she feels weird, though, so keep an eye on her. Common illness after biting rodents includes diarrhea and blood in the stool/urine, as well as vomitting.
you should call your vet just to make sure..when it comes to stuff like this why ask random strangers? i know there are some people with great answers out there..but really, call your vet
I would definately have her checked out by a vet, especially if there is a chance that the mouse might have ate some poison!
ur dog is retarded, but never let him hear you say it.
She's fine.. The strange behaviour is all in your mind cause you are watching her too hard looking for a problem. As long as the field mouse was alive, it's likely that everything is going to be fine.
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