There is never a solid answer to questions like this one. Sorry....
If you mean animals with rabies they would be shot. I doubt they ran into many animals with rabies. I have read numerous diary entries written by people who were pioneers and not one mentioned animals with rabies. They wrote about dust, disease, death, birth, flooded wagons, the mountains and snow.
Very few of them get rabies. Otherwise they would have perished.
Rabies shots are given to help prevent the spread of rabies to animals. This has multiple benefits including the protection of the animal vaccinated from a deadly virus, the protection of other animals from exposure to rabies through the animal vaccinated and the protection of people from exposure to a rabid animal.
Rabies is transmitted by bite of rabid animals. Usually the carnivorous animals transmit the rabies. The virus is there in the saliva of the rabid animals.
over a million people get bit or are attacked wiith rabies
There is definite statistic for this but less than 5,000 people a year. According to the CDC website only one or two people die each year in the USA of rabies. It is usually because they were unaware they were exposed. Most animals in the US that carry rabies are wild. i.e racoons, foxes and bats. Domestic dogs and cats hardly ever have rabies.
Animals get rabies by being bitten by another animal that has rabies.
There are many animals that cannot carry the rabies virus, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates. Only mammals can carry the rabies virus; of these, the least likely to carry the rabies virus would be the marine mammals.
10,000 out of 200,000 die from rabies annually.
Rabies virus is found in the saliva of an infected animal. A bite will transmit it. It is passed from one animal to another this way.
if you get bitten by a dog with rabies you might get them
People that stay outside a lot. (with wild animals)