Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
I don't even remember how young I was when my parents were already telling me to never touch dead animals (like birds killed by window collisions). Salmonella was mainly mentioned back then, but rabies is naturally such a horror story that it doesn't need a separate mentioning.
We scoop up dead birds in our yard whenever they happen to be there with pretty much zero awareness for safety. It's not like we lick them since they're dirty and all, but we don't particularly think about diseases when we're handling them.

It's usually some cat's handiwork.