Rabies Vaccine Question - Page 1

     If you were to feed an animal food with a rabies vaccine in it, would it get vaccinated?
The reason I ask is this, I have 10 rabies shots in my fridge, that are not  being used. I seen a mother and 3 baby racoons down the road from my house tonight and was wondering if I could inject some hotdogs and the racoons ate them, would they get protection?

Why would you do that?

No, kitkat, vaccines need to be introduced into the bloodstream. This is different from antibiotics, which you could hide in hotdog.

There is an oral rabies vaccine. However, it is not the same as the injected rabies vaccine, and as Keith stated it is species specific. Giving your extra vaccine to the raccoons will have no effect. Maybe you could donate the vaccine to a shelter?

Edit: Oral rabies vaccines are being used to control rabies in various wildlife populations (skunks, raccoons, coyotes...).

     That's what I was wondering about. Thanks for the answers. I was hoping that I could have used them for the wild animals.
     One of my sisters a few years back had to get the injections when her Beagle mixed it up with a racoon. Thank goodness the dog did not get rabies, he had to quarantined while the coon was sent to be tested. The racoon was positive for rabies and being my sister seperated them, She had to get them very painful treatments (my sister lives right next door to me, so the rabies has been pretty close in the past).
       Wishful thinking I guess!!!

LC..