Rabies in Cork

Pacoa

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/sable-kept-as-pet-in-co-cork-found-to-have-rabies-like-virus-1.4151687

Dr Turk Turkelton

I've said it before and I'll say it again but we really need a Trump like wall around Cork cutting it off from us normal people.

Pacoa

Cutting the rest of yee off from us you mean

Say my name

Pacoa wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/sable-kept-as-pet-in-co-cork-found-to-have-rabies-like-virus-1.4151687

I thought they were going to say the small number of people were put down there for a second. :pac:

So that's cork now phecked for the meantime.

gozunda

Imo such pets are a significant risk to biosecurity in this country. There are few if any checks on same being privately transported here on ferries etc as far as I can see.

whisky_galore

gozunda wrote: »

Imo such pets are a significant risk to biosecurity in this country. There are few if any checks on same being privately transported here on ferries etc as far as I can see.

What happened to the anti rabies public awareness campaign that seemed to stop in the 1990s? I'm sure some still recall the tv ads.

Why are people importing these weird things? Were they going to grow their own fur coat?

_Brian

whisky_galore wrote: »

What happened to the anti rabies public awareness campaign that seemed to stop in the 1990s? I'm sure some still recall the tv ads.

Why are people importing these weird things? Were they going to grow their own fur coat?

Boom time’s massively explodes the private pet market.
Everyone has a dog now, must be massive money for vets practice.

whisky_galore

_Brian wrote: »

Boom time’s massively explodes the private pet market.
Everyone has a dog now, must be massive money for vets practice.

Keeping animals as accessories and the rescue homes are full of unwanted animals, even some exotic ones. Just what we want, another invasive species. Are Customs half asleep letting these things in?

alps

whisky_galore wrote: »

Keeping animals as accessories and the rescue homes are full of unwanted animals, even some exotic ones. Just what we want, another invasive species. Are Customs half asleep letting these things in?

But are the customs even checking for things, are there even customs? I havnt seen any customs coming off the ferries either in Dublin or Rosslare. There gardai there checking nationality, but haven't seen customs with years...

_Brian

Customs have definitely been getting more prominent at the ports in recent years.
But it’s all drugs related activity.

Coming back from France they do look for human trafficking, randomly searching caravans and motor homes. Our caravan was searched for hidden people this summer gone by.