By CreeptacularBait - 07/09/2017 16:29

Today, my husband and I left for a two-month trip. Our roommate called us after 16 hours of driving to inform us that our dog was attacked and sprayed by a skunk and had rubbed all over our stuff. He now has to get shots and be tested for rabies, and we have to toss all our furniture. FML
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CreeptacularBait 10

OP here. A bit appalled at how many people are berating me about his shots! My dog DOES have his rabies shots. He had to have boosters as per the Animal Control Officer who came out. Second, the 'testing' is actually officers coming out and checking my dogs behavior after a week (I was not informed of that till later and was terrified they might kill my dog). The skunk attacked him, chased him around the yard, sprayed him, and continued to try and attack him and our roommate for a week after the intial incident. Our roommate would go to take out the trash or walk the dogs and the skunk would charge her and the dogs. We put out traps to try and catch it humanely and had no luck. This skunk terrorized my poor dog to the point he started having night terrors and actually pissed himself in his sleepyelping and crying in fear. Luckily he is doing fine otherwise and even though he did not enjoy his boosters, he was fully covered by his Rabies vaccine. Our roommate has made sure to give him lots of cuddles and love to help soothe him. My husband was so angry about it he violently kicked in his sleep and said he dreamed about the skunk attacking our dog and was trying to protect him. Being away when this happened has sucked and our roommate was also kind enough to get our furniture cleaned so we wouldn't have to throw it all away but we did have to get rid of it in the end. I hope that clears up some of it but try not to jump to conclusions!

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raven_of_azarath 34

Or trap it and call Animal Control. That way you aren't being a sociopath and inhumanely killing an animal that was just doing what it does.

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BanjoCheeseGuy 26

That started off innocently enough but ****, you are one messed up mind if your brain went to gassing it.

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CreeptacularBait 10

OP here. A bit appalled at how many people are berating me about his shots! My dog DOES have his rabies shots. He had to have boosters as per the Animal Control Officer who came out. Second, the 'testing' is actually officers coming out and checking my dogs behavior after a week (I was not informed of that till later and was terrified they might kill my dog). The skunk attacked him, chased him around the yard, sprayed him, and continued to try and attack him and our roommate for a week after the intial incident. Our roommate would go to take out the trash or walk the dogs and the skunk would charge her and the dogs. We put out traps to try and catch it humanely and had no luck. This skunk terrorized my poor dog to the point he started having night terrors and actually pissed himself in his sleepyelping and crying in fear. Luckily he is doing fine otherwise and even though he did not enjoy his boosters, he was fully covered by his Rabies vaccine. Our roommate has made sure to give him lots of cuddles and love to help soothe him. My husband was so angry about it he violently kicked in his sleep and said he dreamed about the skunk attacking our dog and was trying to protect him. Being away when this happened has sucked and our roommate was also kind enough to get our furniture cleaned so we wouldn't have to throw it all away but we did have to get rid of it in the end. I hope that clears up some of it but try not to jump to conclusions!

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Bingo_Bango 13

People everywhere love to jump to conclusions instead of spending 5 seconds confirming the logic behind their spicy opinion. I didn't assume your dog had never had shots, because it made sense to me that they might do it again when the risk is presented as high. Cos, ya know #sciencebitches Glad the poochy is fine!

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Bingo_Bango 13

5 seconds on google I meant. Have an opinion, back it up with facts! Easy.

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raven_of_azarath 34

Shots or not, if an animal is attacked or a house pet bites someone, they have to be quarantined to make sure they don't have rabies.

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Seymore Collins 7

All these comments about the skunk and the dog and no one comments about how a grown woman and her husband still have a roommate? Or is that just what liberals call their kids these days to help with their self-confidence while living at home with mom and dad?

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kparrot 1

** even if an animal has its rabies vaccine, if it gets bitten or scratched by an animal who’s rabies status is unknown (wild animal) then the animal needs to be boosters and quarantined. To test an animal they need samples of brain tissue which generally means that animal control captures the wild animal if they can find it and test the animal otherwise the pet just stays in quarantine for the 45 days**

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