I don't have a lot of experience with rabies, but one of the few wild animals to ever come for me, unprovoked, was a large, boar raccoon--and it was just this time of year, about five years ago, on my farm in Northern New York.
In my case, I believe it had something to do with aggression during mating season. The raccoon that "advanced" on me, (and was shot in the head with a .22LR for his trouble), was suffering from several wounds caused, I am pretty sure, by another large, boar raccoon. I don't know if "my" raccoon was the winner, or the loser, but he was hurt--and pretty cranky.
I was on my way to a shed for a load of firewood, late in the evening, before I turned in. It was snowing pretty hard, but there were very fresh tracks--and a little blood--preceeding me into the building. I got one of those "funny little feelings", and went back for the Marlin lever-action I kept beside the kitchen door. When I had to use it, a few minutes later, I was at the back of the shed. That large raccoon popped up between me and an open door. He could have gone either way, but he chose to come for me. It was weird.
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