What happens to the animal that bites someone?
• Cats and Dogs (domestic) Regardless of vaccination status, the dog or cat must be quarantined for ten days or humanely euthanized. If euthanized, the brain must be submitted to a rabies laboratory for testing. If the animal is to be quarantined, the ten day observation period begins on the day the bite occurred. • High Risk Animals Skunks, bats, foxes, coyotes, and raccoons must be humanely euthanized. The animal’s head must be submitted for rabies testing. • Low Risk Animals Opossums, shrews, moles, squirrels, gophers, mice, rats, and armadillos do not need to be quarantined or tested unless the RCA has reason to believe that the biting animal has rabies. Please, contact City Animal Services for additional questions. • Other Biting Animals All biting animals, high risk or low risk, that are not categorized as domestic cats or dogs should be humanely euthanized and tested. However, current rules allow a thirty day quarantine as an alternative to testing. What is quarantine? Quarantin
