Could You Imagine?
Could you imagine having to spend 81 days in the hospital, away from your dogs? Imagine if while you were there, a rabid bat managed to find its way into your house where you dogs were. Imagine if, even though that bat did not come into direct contact with your dogs, their lives were now in danger because of it?
For my friend Morgan, she doesn’t have to imagine. This is the hell she is currently living in. While she was in the hospital, a bat managed to break into her house. It was caught and later tested positive for rabies, resulting in animal control removing her dogs for the standard 10 day quarantine. However while the dogs were in quarantine, it became clear that Morgan had been lied to. Rather than keeping the dogs UTD on their shots as promised the people she trusted instead pocketed her money, resulting in the dogs’ lapsing on their rabies vaccination.
As per North Carolina law, all unvaccinated dogs, cats and ferrets that may have come in contact with a rabid animal must be kept in veterinary supervised quarantine for 6 months. This quarantine is at the owner’s expense and comes out to about $33 per day. This cost does not include fees associated with medicating or vaccinating her dogs as needed.
Morgan has unfortunately fallen so far behind in her payments that the vet is threatening to send the dogs back to animal control, where they will be euthanized. These dogs are her life, and losing them would destroy her. If you can’t donate, please signal boost this!