This week's Farm Side, which will run tomorrow in the Recorder, was written about a recent spate of rabies cases in nearby counties, and about the risks associated with importing dogs from not so very developed countries with less stringent rabies rules than ours.
Since I sent the column on Tuesday yet another rabies case has cropped up just west of here, bringing the total in the past two weeks to four and ANOTHER (!!!!!) dog imported from Egypt has rabies.
I think we need a better screening process if we are going to fill our shelters with dogs from overseas.
Here are some links on the topic.
CDC on the first rabid dog from Egypt and several others
The new case of a rabid dog from Egypt
200 dogs imported from S. Korea
I am stunned! Why isn't that a screening process...there are huge processes to take our animals over-seas!!!
ReplyDeleteI've never been able to understand why rescue groups bring in dogs from other countries. I can understand that those dogs don't have a very bright (if any!)future but look at all the dogs and cats in this country that need homes. For every dog or cat they place in an American home, one dog or cat already in a shelter here is going to die.
ReplyDeleteDiane
Linda, it is much hard to take a dog from here to S. Korea than to bring one here from there. At this point at least 7 dogs that had active rabies have been imported in fifteen years. Pretty awful!
ReplyDeleteDianne, i don't get it either. How can we be expected to take in all the homeless dogs in the world when we can't manage our own?