If you have a better explanation for the madness phenomena in animals, let us in on it.....
Uh.......viral destruction of bits of the brain??
Really, Buz! Lyssaviruses
have actually been cultured and observed!!! Negri bodies can actually be seen with a microscope in the brains of critters that have rabies! Demons? Not so much. You are reaching rather far.
"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken