4/14/2009 10:30:00 PM State officials confirm bobcat had rabies
The Daily Courier
State officials confirmed Tuesday that a bobcat that attacked two people in Prescott Valley Monday had rabies.
The human victims, as well as a dog that suffered bites in a separate attack Monday, must get rabies vaccinations now.
PV police killed the bobcat shortly after it attacked a mother and daughter along Lynx Creek near StoneRidge Drive Monday afternoon.
The bobcat was acting extremely aggressive, so the rabies came as no surprise, said Zen Mocarski, an information officer with the Arizona Game and Fish Department's Kingman office.
To hear the police dispatch tape of the 911 call for help when the bobcat attacked the mother and daughter, visit The Daily Courier's website at dcourier.com. The website also contains a more detailed story that ran Tuesday.
Mocarski said he fielded a lot of calls Tuesday from Prescott-area citizens concerned about all the recent northern Arizona attacks by wildlife with rabies.
People might want to carry a walking stick, but "The odds of encountering a rabid animal remain very low," Mocarski said.
