"But trixie has rabies." *60's dramatic noises*

Rabies is so scary. It's like a zombie virus.

Rabies will always be the #1 scariest thing to me. Literally the closest we'll ever get to a zombie apocalypse.

I used to be a nanny, and I once got chased across a field with three toddlers by a rabid coyote. I picked up the smallest kid and told the other two to hold hands and run ahead of me. It followed us for nearly a mile, panting and snarling and biting at the tall grass. One of the scariest things I’ve ever seen.

But trixie has rabies *DUH DUHH DUHHHHH*

Rabies is a real zombie threat.

This is exactly how advice should be given. No biases, no sugar-coating and no private interest. We all deserve public access to emergency services & advice.

I love how they explain everything and how they also tells you respect the dog and take care of him.

That poor dog chewing on the crate =(

I feel like they should still have informative ads like this some people don’t vaccinate their animals at all

Two years ago my beloved cat was bitten by a stray dog, after about 20 days my cat bit me and my brother in one morning. I thought she was being playful and went to work without thinking much of it. The next day she started showing rabies symptoms and thats when i looked into my wound, it was swelling and bite marks were filled with puss. Went to the hospital and took the vaccines, the cat ran off to a nearby jungle and died the next day. The next 30 days are the most horrific days of my life...each day thinking that the symptoms may show up and it would be the last week of my life. But thanks almighty I am still alive 😊

These old films are so intriguing to me. They’re informative and simple. But they also have a sense of creepiness and stillness- it almost kind of directs my attention to the film even more than I would any normal video or film, as if something might scare me if I don’t pay good enough attention.

These old films are ALWAYS the MOST informative. Straight to the point.

When I was a kid, there was an outbreak of rabies among the local stray dogs in my town. I was walking home from school and this dog was slowly sauntering down the sidewalk. He stopped and started making this horrific wheezing sound. As I walked past, he turned his head and stared at me, but there was just nothing in his eyes, he was looking at me, but didn't see me. As I walked past, I heard the dog quietly growling, I shouldn't have, but I ran all the way home. I will never forget that sound.

This is actually incredibly informative. I didn't know there was a type of rabies with less obvious symptoms. I also didn't know about all of the out behaviour like biting metal or sticking their entire head in water to drink

Rabies sounds like something that could be turned into a horror movie tbh..

"But Trixie has rabies" Trixie: :P

'Don't hesitate to report the dog because of your love or sense of loyalty' 'Don't allow fear or affection for your dog keep you from having your dog vaccinated, regularly.' *It's amazing how simple and sensible the messaging used to be*

I love the ending about loving and taking care of your dog and your health. Although the topic was sad, it was incredibly informative.

My dad did a lot of fear mongering when I was little, and one of the things he told us was if you got rabies you had to have a big needle to cure you. Then around age 6 or 7 I got scratched by our cat, enough to draw blood, and I remember hiding it because I was scared of having to get a needle. Luckily the cat was fine, but I think about it all the time how I could have ended up dead because my dad had scared me too much to go to him for help.

Rabies is so horrific. When I was a toddler in the early sixties we got a puppy. Within a week my parents wouldn’t let me touch it, then it disappeared. Years later I found out it had rabies. It was so sad.

Rest in peace 60's Doggos Edit: On a side note, On October 20, 2021 I lost my boy Chihuahua of 14 years of age from heart failure and on October 12 I lost my good boy Cat that was hit by a car. The goodest and sweeties boys I have had. I had my dog and his sister since they were puppies. Both fitted in one hand and they grew up and fitted each on my arms and on top of each other. And my cat just arrived one day infront of my home. Since he was sick with FIV(I have cats inside) he couldn't come in until I completely cured him from other conditionshe had. I don't know what made him cross the street but his suffering stop that day but not how I would wanted it, I did as much I could for him but still feel I should have done more. For ever they will be my in my heart.

I had a Health Dept. job that included transporting animal heads and intact bats to a lab for testing. This film is perfect! Everything that was said in this 50's film is still completely accurate and appropriate. Nothing is outdated. I like the addition of "Don't stick your hand through a fence." From what I saw, most dog bites are from teasing a dog and/ or putting a hand through a fence. I forgot that a few years ago and reached over a fence to a neighbor's dog. The top of my hand is permanently scarred from having my skin torn off by the dog.

We need modern versions of PSA videos like these. I have learned SO much from these kinds of old style educational videos. They are a very great resource. You can literally burn countless DVDs full of these educational videos and put it into a collection and that collection would be an amazing source of knowledge in an easy to digest format.

If you are forced to kill a suspected rabid animal, don't like shoot it in the head. The brain needs to be examined.

i thought this was gonna be some weird creepy art project, turns out i am just learning about rabies and its effects

The only thing as bad or worse for a family pet is Lyme Disease, we thought our dog had the shot but miscommunication led to it not happening and of course he got a tick. I’m still traumatized about how sick he got. We tried everything to help him to no avail. Do not mess around. Get your pets all the vaccines they need and keep it up to date yearly. Please.

Bring these 60s style films back. Far more informative and less patronising than anything we have today.

The old kind of videos like this add more of a creepy vibe to it.

seeing all these dogs in such pain absolutely breaks my heart. that white dog with black speckles biting and clawing the cage wires, he looked so terrified and distressed. its awful.

a breath of fresh air . Actual informative content and clear English with no slang. This is gold

When I was a kid a lot of our neighbours died cause of rabid dog bites cause they ignored them claiming "they had tough skin" or "they were used to bites". It ain't no joke and I'm glad it's becoming less and less of a problem

"If you see a dog with rabies, stay away from him." Great advice! I was going to give the dog a big hug instead.

I remember one time when I was younger I was riding my bike and saw a hedgehog or something and on the ground and picked it up. It bit me immediately and I didn’t think anything of it. It didn’t have rabies but looking back, it could’ve and I wouldn’t be here to talk about it. Anyway, I’m telling my grandkids that bitch had rabies and I’m immune to rabies

I really enjoy and appreciate how informative and helpful videos like these exist. It definitely saved the lives of many people and especially back then when they did not have internet.

I’m a cop and EMT in the state of Georgia, and I can say beyond a doubt that all of this information is still 100% relevant in 2023.

Rip all doggos in this vid 😢

It’s truly a shame that we don’t have a similar way of conveying accurate public health and safety information to our communities like we could with the 1960s era PSAs. These programs saved many peoples lives and were sources everyone could trust.

Old informative films are always...The most enjoyable, its chill...and best of all, its informative, in the best way.

Old video ads are always straight to the point.

i like watching old shit like this...

"Under no circumstances should you kill or DESTROY THE DOG"

The world needs these knowledge accountability & behaviour videos back BADLY!!!

Why is this kind of comforting for me, just the narrator and old styled graphics? This is... kind of nice.

My son was bitten by a friend's dog. It barely broke the skin, but since they couldn't locate vaccination records for the dog, I insisted it be tested for rabies--which they can now do non-invasively (they don't have to kill the dog to do it). My wife and son were mortified, but I wasn't willing to risk my son's life because it was 'awkward'. Once you show symptoms, it's too late. As expected, the dog wasn't rabid, and after a few days' observation, it went home, and no harm was done. Don't mess around with rabies.

"treat him like any close friend" i love that even back then abusing animals was frowned upon as much as it is today

It’s amazing how much more complicated our safety procedures have gotten since this came out

So informative, no bullshit - a set guideline and how to deal with it. Shame social media is now a load of contrast ideas on the same topics.

My great grandfather always called it “Hydrophobia” and I’ve picked up on the habit. For some reason the animal suffers a painful jolt when its visually stimulated by the sight of water and retreats. Hence why it’s called Hydrophobia.

And just to note, it's only mammals that get rabies. At least if our pet lizard or turtle bites we don't have to worry about it from them. (I don't mean a snapping turtle.) Though some people say opossums seem to be immune to rabies, but when defensive, they sure can act rabid.

I think this Reddit post belongs here. Keep in mind I did not write what's inside the dashes. ----- Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. ------ Rabies has an almost 100% mortality rate and there is no cure. Once you show symptoms, even just a slight fever, you will almost certainly die. There are approximately 59 thousand deaths annually worldwide and the family that contains the most common cause of rabies (Rabies lyssavirus) also contains at least fourteen other species of viruses that can potentially cause rabies. ANY warm-blooded mammal (including but not limited to skunks, bats, foxes, coyotes, racoons, and even herbivorous species such as deer and elk) is a possible carrier and if you are bitten should be treated as if it's confirmed to already be infected unless proven otherwise. It is MUCH better to get vaccinated and treated because you've assumed the animal is infected already than to be wrong and dead. Let me say this again. Rabies has an almost 100% mortality rate. For comparison, the Black Death (the same disease that killed about a third of the European population in 1347) has a mortality rate of just 10% with treatment. That means that if 1000 people got Rabies and 1000 people with the Plague were given treatment, only about 100 of the plague patients would die while every single Rabies patient would be dead, and most would die within the week that symptoms started. Get you and your pets vaccinated. Don't let your cats or dogs outside unsupervised without a fence. Make sure your dog has tags that can identify it, and for the love of God, go to the doctor if you get bitten by any warm-blooded mammal. Something else important: having no symptoms in the first 10 days since a bite won't make you safe. Rabies can incubate for YEARS before you ever show symptoms, and by that point, you're already dead. While rare, it's better to be safe than in the morgue.

These old films are so accurate but also kinda disturbing sometimes 💀

I like how the "clean" dog is named "Lady" and the "diseased" dog is named "Trixie". I guess Trixie got around a bit in her day......

I remember when I was 5 years old I saw a raccoon on our front poarch. I told my dad and he told me to go upstairs. My Dad tried to feed it, but it didn't move. I will never forget the look it gave me. It's eyes were glazed over. As if it wasn't there. It just stared at me up the stairs. I knew something was wrong with it by the way it didn't move. It was thin and sickly.

Wow, Watching this I'm kinda blown away by how informative and instructive these types of 1950's/60's videos were. It's pretty incredible how far society has fallen in the past 60-70 years.

I appreciate the sincerity of the time. You don't get that kind of communication nowadays.

RIP to all the dogs, cats, other animals and people (and any other creatures) who have ever died of rabies... I wish you all the best for your current and future lives, and I wish all the best to all whom you ever knew!

Was bitten by the neighbours dog and later he told me that the dog hated kids which was the reason of it's malicious attack. I didn't get injured, but it hurt as hell. I told my mother about it, she hinted the thought of rabies, but since it is Norway it's quite rare for a dog to have it. Still, always be aware.

This is actually really informative for me thanks

If I'm not mistaken, amazingly all the information is still pretty much up to date.

Poor old Yeller my you rest in peace😭

Makes me feel so sad for them, I love my dog so much and can't imagine the pain these dogs went through.

Well this showed up in my feed today. Nice to see that even back then they had this loke this mostly figured out.

All this good information about not only rabies but also just being kind to the dog. Don't tease, put your hands though the fence, let them eat in peace. Man, I wish this was broadcasted everywhere today. People need to learn how to respect animals all over again.

For anyone in Australia claiming that there's no Rabies in Australia. This may be true for dogs and cats, but flying foxes and other bats do carry a very similar version to the American type of rabies, and all it takes is a scratch from an infected animal. Symptoms often won't show till months later, but by that time, you'd better start making plans. It's to late once symptoms show.

A St. Bernard named Cujo might trap you and your diabetic son in a Ford Pinto for days while it slams its head into the car door every time it hears the phone ring inside the house..... (This warning wasn't known until 1983, they didn't know about Cujo at the time of this documentary).

Thanks, Unit 731, for the useful information

One thing I liked very much about this was how to the point all the things were no bs nothing literally to the point amazing

I’m a Health Dept employee in Tennessee and honestly we still recite this same thing to all of our animal bite cases. I wish I could just email this to everyone who lives in my county!

I actually saw a rabid cat before. It was drooling with foam and then it just walked straight with its mouth open and the drool all over its face and body. It's very sad.

Informative video and banger song in the end instead of an annoying song. 10/10

Informative, interesting and captivating. Surprisingly good video on dangers no fear mongering or otherwise useless information very well done stood the test of time in my opinion

How old is this video? I miss this style!

It’s odd how this is still rather accurate.....

We need these played in school. This is just straight up life advice some parents never think to tell their kids or just don't find it important.

Additional fact, any mammal and ONLY a mammal can contract rabies, so be cautious when around any wild/stray animal. If you have been bitten by a reptile, such as a lizard or non venomous snake, rabies isn’t a concern. After you have been bitten, rinse the wound and pat dry. Then clean the wound with hydrogen peroxide and apply a sterile bandaid.

I've lost a relative to rabies here in northeast brazil, he caught it from a stray cat that he tried to take off of the streets, and the cat had bitten him. He take the vaccine almost 3 hours after he got bitten. He thought he was cured and completely ok, but a month later he started having the symptons and died. The last time i saw him, he was in a catatonic state, he didn't looked at me, he was just staring at the ceiling and when he tried to drink something, even though he was thirsty, he could not drink it, it was like his body was preventing him from doing so. That was one of the saddest things i've seen in my life, and that memory sticks with me from that moment to this day. Now everytime i see a cat or a dog, doesn't matter how cute or defenseless it looks, i don't get near them and get really anxious next to one of them, it's like seeing my relative slowly die that terrible death, has unlocked a inner fear inside of my brain. Take care people, i know some animals look cute, and you may see them in a bad situation and could create lots of empathy, but you can't go near animals if you don't know if he has a disease. We can't forget that animals, are wild after all, and the fact that they live near us, don't change that.

"You shouldn't kill or destroy the dog" LMAO

when i was a kid animal planet had an episode about dogs and rabies and it scared the hell out of me

I think i learn more through this videos than the new one

I love the way public broadcasting announcements used to sound compared to them now a days!

"But if a dog is sick with rabies,he will die in 11 days" I'm getting the Plague Inc vibes from hearing this.

I was about 4 when the neighbor's dog bit me. I didn't tease him, he just went off the chain and had a bad temper. No one told me about rabies, and I thought that the worst thing that could happen is that I would be scolded and i hid the bite... Thank God there was no virus, so now I have both cats and dogs who receive the necessary veterinary care and do not sit tied to a pipe all their lives. It's terrible how people endanger themselves and others

This explains a lot that I didn’t know about Cujo reading it and watching the movie. Why he kept running at the car and the outside structures of the house every time the phone rang.

I know the people shown are experts on that matter but I can't help but shudder when I see them handling them with short sleeves and only a glove ._.

This was filmed in St. Louis at 6:13 .The 'Health Division Rabies Control' truck has an address of 2120 Gasconade Ave. A quick Google search says 2120 Gasconade Ave is the location of the "Gasconade Animal Control Center" . So they've been at the same location for a very long time...

This is very informative

Rabies is one of the saddest, most terrifying ways to die imaginable. Old videos of people dying of rabies are so incredibly sad.

This was randomly in my recommended and reading the comments really gets me thinking of how much the disease still affects us today. Stay safe y’all.

"Never put your hands through a fence to pet a dog" Kid: I'll fucking do it again

I saw this when I was a little girl and it terrified me. Im old now, it still terrifies me!

I love animals so much, I often go into a trance watching or sitting with them and also have an (diagnosed) ASD level of obsession with science and how it relates to animals, but also science about how or why things happens, psychology, and psychopharmacology in particular So I sat through and absolutely hated that I did so in my awkward curiosity and need to finish the videos I have personally clicked on. Edit: That was over twelve minutes, and I could have just sped it up 2x at the beginning and actually taken in 100% of the information and enjoyed the shorted video but didn't realize until 11min in when I also noticed I had become distracted on an ADD loop.

1:19 That is a fruity ass way to stand

VIDEO DIDNT HAVE ALL SYMPTOMS OF RABIES WHICH IS BELOW (1) Numbness in limbs (2)Headaches (3)Fever (4)Lack of Cordination/ Falling (5) Hallucinations (6) Uncontrolable Irrability (7) Uncontrolable Over Excitement (8) Uncontrolable Insomnia (Lack of sleep) (9) Strong Seizures/Shaking (10) Excessive Drooling (11)Fear Water (Hydrophobia) (12)Fear Air(Aerophobia) (13) Fear of Light (Heliophobia) (14)Body Paralysis (Body Stiffness) (15)Choking (10)Coma (11)Death

Cllllassical (& educational) KZfaq recommendations

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5:14 “never try to treat any dog bi- [REDACTED]”

Nice documentary, this is the kind of things that should be shown at schools even today.

These old films convey information very well. They are also creepy as hell imo.. they could make one about anything and I would still find it eerie

Ngl I thought this was a horror film or something but its genuinely interesting and informative