N.J. town officials ask residents to get pets vaccinated after raccoon with rabies attacks dog
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Last Tuesday, Elizabeth Dellapietro had just put her dog Tilly in the backyard of her Highlands home to play and gone inside when she heard startling yelps.
She ran back outside to find a raccoon attached her pet’s paw, so she hit the raccoon with a watering can until it let go, then called animal control. Animal control arrived a short while later to capture the raccoon, which later tested positive for rabies, Dellapietro said.
“I was stressed. I was shaking,” Elizabeth Dellapietro told NJ Advance Media.