The boyfriend of an Echo Hill Road resident re-donned his sweatshirt after using it to get a raccoon out of the house over Memorial Day weekend, so now he (the boyfriend) needs to talk to his doctor about a rabies vaccination, police say.
It happened at 12:42 a.m. on Saturday, May 24, according to Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt.
The raccoon had wandered inside the house and was “trapped” there by a dog—a small, 3-year-old Labrador retriever mix—that ignored commands to leave the visitor alone, according to a police report.
“The dog had the raccoon cornered, and an individual that was inside the house, a boyfriend, got it out by throwing his sweatshirt over the raccoon and taking it outside,” Kleinschmitt said. “Then he took the sweatshirt and put it back on, so if there’s saliva on it that we don’t know about, and the animal is sick, it could be a problem. We don’t have the animal to test it, so now he has to talk to his physician.”
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Separately, a black Labrador retriever killed a baby raccoon on Turning Mill Lane.
That happened around 8:50 a.m. on May 23, according to police.
The anima’s carcass was sent to a state lab for rabies testing, and it came back negative, Kleinschmitt said.