LEE COUNTY, GA – Animal control officers set traps around a Lee County home today to catch feral cats after a rabid fox attack.

The man who lives there asked for help getting rid of the cats.

After he was attacked by the fox as he fed the cats. And a deputy was attacked as well he wants the cats gone.

Coleman says he has been feeding those cats for more than ten years and considers some of them as pets but their food may have attracted the rabid fox a reminder that you should refrain from feeding any stray animals or feral cats outdoors and even make sure to put all food away if you feed your own pet outdson.

“I’m not going to come out here and feed no cat,” said Coleman.

Sunday a rabid fox attacked Coleman as he was feeding the cats. He eventually got away from the fox and called 911.

When a Lee County deputy arrived the fox attacked him too. That means Coleman and the officer have to undergo a series of shots since to protect them from rabies.

“They shot me in the hip there and shot me in there,” said Coleman.

Coleman goes back for his second treatment tomorrow and he says he’s not looking forward to it.

“Did it hurt, oh that hurt,” said Coleman.

Environmental health director Dewayne Tanner says the treatment is a four to five shot series that can be pretty pricey.

But thanks to the advances in modern medicines..there has been a dramatic drop in rabies cases in people since the 1940′s

“In 2008 there were 27 cases of rabies in the United States,” said Dewayne Tanner, Environmental Health Director.

Rabies vaccines have also helped keep it out of the pet population as well but feral cats continue to be a problem, so Coleman has a word of advice for other people who may be tempted to feed cats as well.

“Make sure you have a gun on you, make sure it’s loaded too,” said Coleman.

Raccoons are the most common wild animals infected with rabies in the United States. Skunks, foxes, bats, and coyotes are the other most frequently affected.

Cats are the most common domestic animals with rabies in the United States… a reminder not to feed or come into contact with feral cats.

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(nytimes.com) SLAMABAD, Pakistan — An American drone struck militant hide-outs in northwestern Pakistan for the second consecutive day on Thursday, despite public calls by the Pakistani government halt the controversial covert C.I.A. campaign.

Estimates varied on the number of fatalities killed in Thursday’s strike. Seven to 10 suspected militants were believed to have died when the drone struck a compound in northwestern Pakistan, government officials and locals said.

The drone strikes come at a time when diplomatic relations between the United States and Pakistan have worsened over Pakistan’s refusal to reopen NATO supply lines that were closed down last November. Pakistan has been demanding an American apology over an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. In order to reopen the NATO supply lines, Pakistan’s Parliament has demanded an end to drone strikes and the government is seeking a much higher transit fee for each NATO container.

Thursday’s drone strike occurred in Hasso Khe in the Lar Dewar area, about two miles from Mir Ali town in North Waziristan, an area considered a redoubt of local and foreign militants. Most of the militants killed in the strike were Uzbek fighters who belonged to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, said local residents who were reached by telephone.

A strike on Wednesday in the village of Datta Khel Kalai, also in North Waziristan, killed four suspected militants, The Associated Press reported, citing Pakistani intelligence officials.

The American drone strikes are immensely unpopular in the country and have caused increasing friction between the two countries. While the United States views the unmanned aircraft as vital in the fight against militants, the drones are seen as a breach of national sovereignty that also cause civilian deaths.

Politicians across the political spectrum have been unanimous in their criticism of the unmanned aircraft.

Earlier this week, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chairman of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and the son of President Asif Ali Zardari and slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, demanded a halt in drone strikes during a speech in New York.

“The continuing unilateral U.S. drone attacks on Pakistani soil are a constant irritant to Pakistani public opinion — both as a clear violation of our sovereignty and the toll of collateral damage to innocent victims,” Mr. Zardari said, addressing a gathering of supporters.

“I would like the American public to consider what their reaction would have been if American troops had been killed in such an attack on their border with Mexico,” he said.

Political analysts here say that the anti-American public sentiment and the view that drone have caused a high number of civilian casualties forced the government to adopt a tough posture on the strikes, even though some officials previously gave tacit support for the strategy.

Protests against the drones have been more visible in the country’s urban areas though rarely seen in the tribal regions, where local residents acknowledge the drones have forced the militants to flee deeper into the mountains.

“It’s quite obvious that drones are giving the Americans the kind of results they want against the militants,” said Nadeem Farooq Paracha, a columnist for Dawn, a leading English language daily. “Drone strikes fill the gap that Pakistan’s armed forces and government should be filling, but are not.”

Mr. Paracha said that despite the public outcry, it is obvious that drone strikes will continue.

(TAMPABAY.COM) ST. PETERSBURG — Certainly, the Rays had some issues Tuesday, beyond whatever led to Carlos Peña and Luke Scott finishing the TV interview with Todd Kalas after the 8-5 win wearing their new gladiator helmets.

Rookie starter Matt Moore gave away the chance for his second win as he nearly gave away an early six-run lead by walking the bases loaded. They continued their bumbling ways with two more errors, both on the same play. And their offense, with homers from Peña (who was moved to the leadoff spot), Scott and B.J. Upton, remains a collaboration of inconsistency.

But as rough as it has been going, losses mounting along with injuries, there is little reason to be picky.

“You take ‘em all,” manager Joe Maddon said. “You talk about winning ugly, but in the end they’re all kind of beautiful, actually.”

Having lost two straight and four of six, and looking bad in doing so, the Rays (26-18) now have a chance in today’s matinee finale to salvage a 4-4 homestand.

Moore was cruising toward his second victory as Peña, with a blast off the centerfield restaurant estimated at 452 feet, helped the Rays turn a 1-0 lead into 6-0 with a five-run fourth before 12,307 at Tropicana Field.

But as dazzling as the 22-year-old rookie was in the first four innings, allowing just two hits and a walk while striking out six, he was dreadful in the fifth, a change Maddon attributed to youthful indiscretion.

“I think things started to speed up for him delivery-wise, and all of a sudden the strike zone went away,” Maddon said. “Not that he was trying to be too fine, just the fact that the game mentally speeded up for him to the point where he was unable to control his fastball.”

Moore started poorly, walking Colby Rasmus on four pitches, for reasons he couldn’t explain. “The first four innings I’m going right at everybody with, ‘If you can hit it, you can hit it,’ then with Colby he didn’t have to make his mind up for himself,” he said.

He got a comebacker from Yan Gomes but didn’t make a good throw to second, foiling the chance for a double play. After another fielder’s choice grounder, he walked Kelly Johnson then Yunel Escobar, earning the chance to face Jose Bautista with the bases loaded.

Moore got ahead, then fell behind, and Bautista blistered a full-count pitch to left, scoring two. He ended up behind again to Edwin Encarnacion, got a ground ball on his 39th pitch of the inning but was done in by a defense that has made an AL-high-matching 40 errors in 44 games.

“Even with a couple guys being hurt, we’re better than that,” Maddon said. “Those are the kind of mistakes that we don’t make, and we have to stop making.”

Sean Rodriguez threw wildly past first then rightfielder Ben Zobrist, with his first career outfield error, misfired toward the plate, making it 6-4 and ending Moore’s night, one out short of the minimum five innings for a starter to get the win, which official scorer Bill Mathews awarded to Wade Davis.

“It’s frustrating,” Moore said. “Obviously, I’m just upset with myself in that situation where I know I’m better than that and I know there’s more to come from that. That’s not the way I want to represent myself, not only to what’s going on, but to everybody in our clubhouse.”

As troubling as his performance was, Maddon kept perspective: “I have a lot of patience for young left-handers with that kind of arm.”

(htpolitics.com) Florida’s quest to identify and remove non-U.S. citizens from the voter rolls was started at the direct urging of Gov. Rick Scott, the state’s former top elections official said.

Ex-Secretary of State Kurt Browning, who resigned this year, told The Associated Press that Scott asked him whether or not non-U.S. citizens were registered and if those people were voting. Browning explained to the governor during a face-to-face meeting last year that people who register and falsely claim they are citizens can be charged with a crime.

“He says to me — well, people lie,” Browning recalled this week. “Yes, people do. But we have always had to err on the side of the voter.”

Browning said the conversation prompted state election officials to begin working to identify non-U.S. citizens. The state’s initial list — compiled by comparing driver’s licenses with voter registration data — showed that as many as 182,000 registered voters were eligible to be in the country but ineligible to vote.

But Browning said he decided against telling local election supervisors right away because he wanted to make sure the information was accurate in order to avoid a “firestorm of press” and criticism. Florida then spent months trying to get access to a federal database that tracks non-U.S. citizens in the country, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would not allow it.

“We were not confident enough about the information for this secretary to hang his hat on it,” said Browning, who resigned after the Jan. 31 presidential preference primary.

Browning said media reports earlier this year that raised questions whether non-U.S. citizens were on the rolls required the state to keep pushing ahead with the effort.

In the last few weeks, the state sent a list to county election supervisors of more than 2,600 people who have been identified as non-U.S. citizens. Supervisors have responded warily to the list and have pointed out that it has inaccuracies.

Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel went so far on Monday to put out on Twitter a picture of him holding a U.S. passport that belonged to one of the voters identified on the list.

Last week state officials announced that the Florida agency that handles driver’s licenses and does have access to the federal database would double-check the names on the state list.

Brian Burgess, a spokesman for Scott, did not have direct knowledge of the conversation between Browning and Scott. But he said the governor wants to make sure only eligible voters cast ballots.

“It’s the governor’s job to make sure the voter rolls are accurate, and I don’t know anyone who believes non-U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote,” Burgess said.

There are currently more than 11 million active registered voters in the state, but a few thousand votes could make the difference in what is expected to be a tight race between President Barack Obama and GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney. The 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by just 537 votes in the Sunshine State.

Florida law requires voters to be U.S. citizens and live in the state. Florida also does not allow people to vote if they are convicted felons and have not had their civil rights restored.

While Browning said he wanted to double-check the information, he also said that local supervisors should be working with the state to make sure there aren’t ineligible voters on the rolls.

“The supervisors — all 67 of them — get ultimate control of who comes on and who comes off,” said Browning, the former elections supervisor for Pasco County. “If there are non-U.S. citizens on their rolls, then why aren’t they doing something about getting the non U.S. citizens off?”

Ertel, a Republican, said he agrees ineligible voters should be removed but questioned the accuracy of the list. He also said it was given to supervisors already in a serious time crunch because redistricting was forcing them to change precincts and district lines.

“If the list is so easily debunked, it should have been better vetted,” Ertel said.

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