Re: 2-week-old Ariz. girl dies in dog attack
- From: roothliss@xxxxxxxxx (Ruthless)
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:16:19 GMT
Hey TD,
Berry says officers found the infant in the living room with bite wounds
on her head. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene.
The dog, a chow, was quarantined.
Chows are nasty dogs. In 35 years of working with animals, I've known
maybe 5 full-blooded chows that weren't dangerous. Mix them with just
about any other breed and you end up with a great dog, but if they're
full-blooded, they scare me way worse than any pit bull ever has scared
me.
As for quarantining an animal that has killed someone...
The reason for a 10-day quarantine when a dog or cat bites a human being
is that if the animal bit the person *because it has rabies*, it will be
dead within 10 days. So if the animal is alive at the end of the 10-day
period, the bite victim doesn't have to undergo a series of rabies
vaccines (which are given in the ass now, not the belly, but still it
ain't much fun).
In the 80s, we had a dog kill a child in our area and the dog was
immediately quarantined in the shelter where I worked. I went to my boss
and asked, "Why are we quarantining this dog when the victim is dead and
therefor not in danger of getting rabies? Since the owners have
surrendered the dog for euthanasia, why can't we go ahead and put it to
sleep?" He pondered the question and then said, "You're right. We
shouldn't have to quarantine this animal. Let me make a couple calls." He
was a political animal and I'm sure he called the Mayor to make sure there
wouldn't be any flak over a decision like that. He called me back to his
office about 30 minutes later and authorized the euthanasia.
Davi
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