Contractor to trap wildlife in Marble Falls at rabies site for testing
Connie Swinney/The Highlander
Marble Falls Animal Control Officer Jacey Ferguson responded recently to a report involving a stray dog roaming a neighborhood. The community is on extra alert due to a report of a rabid gray fox which chased and bit a woman in her yard.
Connie Swinney
Staff Writer
The city of Marble Falls has hired a contractor to trap and rabies test wild gray foxes near a neighborhood where a woman was attacked and bit by the creature, prompting a public alert.
The federal contractor, who lives in the Hill Country area, was scheduled to start trapping Sept. 13 in a rugged and wooded area adjacent to the 400 and 500 blocks of Avenue B and the 300 block of Sixth Street in Marble Falls.
On Sept. 4, the Marble Falls Police Department animal control division launched into action with flyers and public notices in that neighborhood after a bite incident involving a fox. The test results from the Texas Department of State Health Services came back positive for the rabies virus following the incident. . . .
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