i don't know if my dog got rabies. help?

Question

yesterday i was washing my dog and he bit my finger pretty hard and i bled a lot. my dog is usually mean.
newais so like i was saying he bit me and after he bit me while i was holding him he started acting retarded and he peed on me which he usually don't pee on people. after that i put him on the tub and he started foaming from his mouth for couple of seconds and stopped and couldn't stand he kept falling to the side and couldn't control his balance.
but i heard if dogs have rabies they don't eat food or drink water
but my dog EATS a lot and DRINKS a lot so i don't know if he has rabies or not. Right now he's perfectly fine.
oh and after i got bitten i went to the hospital and got a shot on the arm incase if i get infected. if my dog did have rabies would that shot prevent me from getting rabies?
help please! i'm so scared T_T

Answer 1

It sounds like your dog just doesn't like baths and was throwing a temper tantrum. Not much you can do there. Maybe take him to a trainer. He sounds like he needs to learn some manners.

Answer 2

It sounds like you went to the Hospital and got a tetanus shot. Rabies shots are given in series. IF your dog has not had rabies shots and is acting ill like you described, you need to contact your Vet and ask about what to do with the dog and that you are concerned your dog might have rabies. Many things could cause your dog to act as you described, including rabies. If your dog has not been vaccinated and/or you know that it was bitten by a bat or an animal within the past month or so then contact your local health department so you can begin your shots. It is no longer painful like it used to be. People that work in animal shelters get rabies shots but there is a different schedule for shots after a person has been bitten by an animal suspected of having rabies.
There is a very good possibility that after you contact your Vet you may come to the conclusion together that there is no need for rabies shots.

Answer 3

Um, sorry to say but if your dog has not been vaccinated against rabies, the incoordination, the foaming at the mouth, the peeing, his irritated behavior, are all signs of stage II rabies, also known as the Furious Phase or "mad dog syndrome". Dogs in this phase will eat more than usual, and will try to eat stuff that is not food. Here are the symptoms for you:

Furious phase: "mad dog syndrome"
The second phase of infection usually lasts 2 to 4 days and not all rabid animals experience it. Animals that enter immediately into the final paralytic phase are sometimes said to have dumb or paralytic rabies. Animals that spend most of their diseased state in the furious phase are sometimes said to have furious rabies. An infected dog may viciously attack any moving object, person, or animal; a caged rabid dog will chew the wire, break their teeth, and try to bite a hand moving in front of the cage. Rabid cats will attack suddenly, biting and scratching. Foxes will invade yards and attack dogs, cows, and porcupines.
They may show the following signs:

Craving to eat anything, including inedible objects
Constant growling and barking
Dilated pupils
Disorientation
Erratic behavior
Episodes of aggression
Facial expression showing anxiety and hyperalertness
Irritability
No fear of natural enemies (e.g., wild animals may not be afraid of people)
Restlessness
Roaming
Seizures
Trembling and muscle incoordination

You NEED TO TAKE THE DOG TO THE VET NOW and have him tested IMMEDIATELY. If he comes out positive, you NEED TO GO TO A DOCTOR immediately. Rabies affects the central nervous system and will kill you if you are not treated appropriately. The shot you received at the doctor's will NOT protect you against rabies, it was just a tetanus shot. Humans are not routinely given rabies shots.

The first link has all the information you need on rabies symptoms in animals, the second has information on how to deal with a bite from a rabid animal. You need to get off the computer and take your dog to the vet NOW.

Answer 4

Your dog, most likely, does not have rabies. Rabies actually is not all that common in many areas of the United States, and unless he was bitten by an animal that had it, his likelihood of getting it is quite low.

What you witnessed was most likely a seizure. The symptoms you describe... falling over, unable to control his balance, urinating uncontrollably and even the foaming at the mouth can all be symptoms of a seizure. It doesn't have to look like the stereotypical falling over and twitching.

I would definitely get him to a vet ASAP. In the meantime, wash out your wound, pour some peroxide on it and keep a close eye on the bite and your dog.

Seizures occur for a number of reasons... poor autoimmune response to a vaccination, inherited epilepsy (depending on the breed), ingestion of a poisonous or toxic substance, and more. They can be worse/happen more frequently around the time of the full moon (which was last night). And they can often be controlled with medication, homeopathy or gold bead implants.

First and foremost, your dog needs to go to the vet for a complete physical, and describe what happened in detail to your vet. Successive seizures CAN be worse if left untreated.

His biting you was an instinctive reaction to something bad happening within his body, not him lashing out at you. He was either hurting or scared of what he felt his body doing.

Answer 5

It sounds like he might have had a seizure!! Get him into the vet and checked out. Has he had a rabies shot? If so, then you are probably safe. If not you need to go back to the hospital. Rabies can incubate for years! It does not always just show up it two weeks. Plus, by then it may be too late for you. I know of a little girl that just died from rabies, she'd been exposed almost a year ago.

Answer 6

for one thing there is no preventive measures for humans & rabies but if your dog has had his shots in the last 2 years he probably does'nt have rabies. If you got a shot it probably was a tetnus shot not a rabies. About your dog foaming at the mouth did you have any thing around his neck because my dog foams almost every time we go for a walk because of her coller. As for the dog falling over & peeing on you it could be the food that you feed him . with that poison food scare I would check the food if it is on the list take it back to the place where you bout it hope I helped !!

Answer 7

Doubt that shot will help. It was probably a tetanus shot.

The good news is, if your dog lives another 2 weeks it probably doesn;t have rabies.

Bad news is, if it does have rabies it is gonna get a lot meaner and will die a painful death. Then you are gonna have to get a series of painful shots to deal with the rabies.

Want to know for sure? Call the local animal control and they will test your dog. The test will kill your dog however.

Answer 8

He probably hates baths and was angry. But foaming at the mouth (are you sure it wasn't just shampoo bubbles?).
Better check with the vet just in case. If your dog doesn't have a rabies shot, get it now.

Answer 9

Simply go to the vet and tell them what's going on. You should make a calll first, and if they think somethings wrong, get them to the vet immediatly! If it ends up with rabies, you will have to put it down and get a shot or you might die as well as the poor dog.

Answer 10

Has he had his Rabies vaccine? If so he doesn't have Rabies. If he hasn't get yourself any anyone else who he may have bit checked. Rabies is no laughing matter and is contagous to every one any anything biten. I don't want to scare you but there is only one test to determine if Rabies are present in the dog...and you don't want to read about it here. Call your vet and tell him your concerns.

Answer 11

Why don't you pursue the obvious course of action and take him to the vet? And of course the rabies shot will prevent you from getting rabies, that's kinda what they were, you know, MADE for. Did he get loose at all? Does he have bite wounds anywhere? If so, then he may have rabies.