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Animal Services Monthly Report <br />September, 2007 <br />7 <br />staff stresses the immediate reporting of any possible contact to animal control and/or <br />public healt h authorities to ensure the healt h of all members of a househo ld—human and <br />pet alike. <br />As can also be seen fro m the table on rabies exposures, Animal Control Officers <br />investigated eighteen (18) cases in which there were possible rabies exposures. Usually, <br />these are cases invo lving known or suspected contact between a domest ic small animal <br />such as a dog or a cat and a wild animal such as a raccoon, as well as whether there is an <br />indirect contact between a human and pet member of a househo ld in these situations. But <br />our Animal Control Officers are also responsible for bite reports invo lving dogs and cats <br />(as well as other animals) and a human victim. In these cases, it is a legal requirement <br />and public health precaution that a dog or cat biting a human being be contained and <br />observed for a period of ten (10) days—thereby ensuring that the bite victim was not <br />exposed to the rabies virus. <br />Efforts to ensure current vaccination, for the welfare of pets and the people with who m <br />they come into contact, are ongoing and act ivit ies in this area are captured by vaccination <br />statist ics compiled by our Animal Control Divisio n. As is ordinarily the case, the <br />majorit y o f these vaccinations – 1,514 out of a total o f 1,852 vaccinations – continue to <br />be performed at veterinary establishments. <br />The Animal Services Department organized three lowcost rabies vaccination clinics for <br />Orange Count y in the month of September, and a total of two hundred and one (201) cats <br />and dogs were vaccinated at this clinic. In addition, another one hundred and thirtyseven <br />(137) animals were vaccinated at our Animal Shelt er prior to their adoption or recovery. <br />All o f these act ivit ies—public educat ion and outreach, invest igations and enforcement, <br />and providing lowcost vaccination clinics—are crit ical given that Orange County <br />continues to be affected by the epidemic of “eastern raccoon rabies” that began in the <br />latter half o f the 1990s. Their essential nature is further underscored by the current view <br />that we are on the upside o f a raccoon rabies cycle that may bring even higher numbers of <br />confirmed rabies cases than we have seen in recent years. North Carolina public health <br />veterinarians have articulated this view because of their awareness that last year 520 <br />animals were confirmed rabid by North Carolina’s rabies laboratory, an increase of 62 <br />cases fro m the year before. <br />Special Monthly Notes <br />There have been several challenges and changes that have affected animal disposit ion <br />numbers this month. One of the most notable has been the typical seasonal increase of <br />animal intakes during spring and summer, a clear indicat ion of the ongoing problem of <br />pet overpopulation. <br />Another notable challenge over the last six mo nths has been the housing o f 17 dogs that <br />were confiscated due to a cruelt y case. In May, nine of these dogs were humanely
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