04/05/2025
Rabies incidents are rising fast here in southern Arizona. Please remember we require your pets to have had the rabies vaccine. This is a deadly disease that isn't nice.
We received word yesterday that the horse in the post from the other day was in fact positive for rabies. That horse was from the Eden area. There has been a positive fox found dead in Ft Thomas. There was a rabid coyote that attacked someone in Greenlee county this past weekend. And Cochise county has been flooded with positive rabies animals.
It is so droughty right now that all the wild animals are heading to the same water holes and feed areas and it greatly increases the spread of rabies. If your dogs or cats are not current on rabies, call today and schedule them. If you have horses and you live in an area where there are wild animals, it would really behoove you to vaccinate them!
Rabies is a terminal disease. Unvaccinated animal quarantine post exposure is very long and very expensive. I get that it feels like a lot of money if you have a lot of animals but trust me when I tell you it will be cheaper than what you have to pay to quarantine your animals that are exposed and not vaccinated and a lot less money than what you are going to have to pay for your own rabies treatment shots at the ER that are not covered by your insurance!
Vaccinate your animals. Vaccinate your animals against rabies for them and for you!