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Citizen complaint of the day: It's no raccoon, but weasel in Franklin Park might be rabid, too

By adamg on Sat, 08/19/2023 - 8:40pm
White weasel in Franklin Park, possibly rabid

Possible weasel of Caerbannog, with a vicious streak a mile wide, on a Franklin Park path.

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a white weasel with no fear on the Forest Hills Street side of Franklin Park this evening:

Rabid white weasel at Franklin park. Chased after me and my dog and was not bothered by my dog’s barking and growling.

Earlier:
Rabid raccoons popping up in Boston; five so far.

Neighborhoods: 
Jamaica Plain
Free tagging: 
Franklin Park
Weasels
Wildlife
rabies
311


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Comments

By Fenway Crank on Sat, 08/19/2023 - 9:02pm.

I’m pretty sure I just saw a rabid white weasel on TV

By Tim Mc. on Sat, 08/19/2023 - 10:41pm.

I've heard that weasels can just be like that sometimes, no rabies involved. (Maybe defending a burrow?)

By anon on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 6:16am.

Somebody’s escaped pet

By KTK on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 6:47am.

They are not exactly known for being friendly

By monkeynaut on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 11:03am.

They're cute, but they are fierce. If they're hungry or determined enough, they will take on much larger animals or groups of animals. I have seen a few get into friends' poultry enclosures. One weasel vs twenty chickens is not as lopsided a fight as you'd think.

By MrDines on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 7:41pm.

It’s doing the Dwarf Nebula Processional March.

By jmeltzer on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 11:21am.

the Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue.

And keep your mamas away from those guitars.

By GaryC on Sat, 08/19/2023 - 11:16pm.

It was chasing your dog, not you. Hungry weasel looking for a quick meal.

By anon on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 2:57am.

Sad. Abandoned ferret.

By Homer Simpson on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 6:44am.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel.

By Cleary Squared on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 8:08am.

It must be a relative of the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

By jmeltzer on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 2:17pm.

It was just mean.

By merlinmurph on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 1:05pm.

Our local police report is filled with entries of people seeing a wild animal, always with the comment "possibly rabid". These judgements are meaningless and I believe are simply to raise attention and priority to their entry.

Anyways, cool looking animal.

By xyz on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 5:26pm.

Technically not wrong, any mammal is "possibly" rabid in the same way I might "possibly" be President someday. (In both cases, let's hope not.)

By FakeBostonCharlie on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 4:01pm.

Who would you bet on?

By xyz on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 4:16pm.

There's only one way to find out: try it. Whichever one loses, we win.

By monkeynaut on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 11:03am.

It depends on how many of each there are. Doesn't take too many weasels to chew through all the wiring harnesses and brake lines on a dirtbike. On the other hand, if the bikes are already moving, the weasels might not have the vertical jump to pull this off.

By anon on Sun, 08/20/2023 - 5:07pm.

Maybe a pet ferret, that could explain the behavior.

By Nonagenarian on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 12:08am.

Could that be someone’s escaped pet ferret? Would explain confidence.

By C,Hirsch on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 8:26am.

That looks a lot more like a white ferret (domesticated species predating domesticated cats) than a weasel, and the reason that it might be relatively unafraid is that it was raised with humans and dogs.

I hope that Animal Control can catch it.

By NoMoreBanks on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 11:08am.

An aggressive wild animal is not automatically rabid. Anyone who has experienced an animal actually in the stages of rabies where they are aggressive will tell you it is not like normal animal aggression. There is a weird zombie-like quality to it.