RAPID Rabies Live Test

12/20/2025

12/07/2025

Please join this Zoom 8am EST December 10 to learn more about the cruel RAIDER test for rabies. This test is invasive, and not Point of Care, involving drilling into the animal’s skull and inserting a straw so fluids from the brain can be put onto a test. This is ridiculous as saliva can be used for testing, without harming the animal.

Reliable rabies diagnosis is essential for effective surveillance and timely public health action, yet access to confirmatory testing remains limited in many settings. Lateral flow devices (LFDs) — rapid, point-of-care tests — can support rabies detection in animals where laboratory capacity is ...

10/25/2025

https://criphumanimal.org/2021/12/07/urban-lycans-the-fear-of-wild-canids-and-the-neurodivergent-guest-post-by-nicole-corrado/

Guestpost by Nicole Corrado On the morning of November 22, 2021, Toronto Police Emergency Task Force fatally shot a coyote behind a school and sent her body away for rabies testing. The coyote was…

10/24/2025

Please comment about switching from brain dissection to humane testing.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has proposed changes to how it responds to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in farmed deer and elk.

The proposed changes will move away from mandatory herd destruction and toward a regional, management-focused approach to control disease spread. The new proposed CWD control program will recognize regional variability in CWD status for the purposes of CWD risk management.

Under the new proposed program, the CFIA will not order the destruction of CWD-infected herds in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba -- provinces in which the disease is considered to be established or emerging.

Source: Canadian Cattlemen, October 21, 2025

10/22/2025

Did you know that each year, both wild and domestic animals receive emergency medical care to help combat the effects of consuming rodenticides?

Join Pickering Animal Services and Rodenticide Free Ontario for an important educational session on how to effectively wildlife-proof your home, and learn why rodenticides pose serious risks to people, pets, and local ecosystems!

🗓️Wednesday, October 29
🕖7:00 - 8:30 pm
📍Virtual

Register for the virtual session➡️ https://ow.ly/lI9750XgyyY