Neighbors come together to capture rabid raccoon terrorizing children in Troy

TROY, Mich. – A clearly sick raccoon was aggressive, foaming on the mouth and leaping round a number of houses Friday morning in Troy in a neighborhood stuffed with younger kids strolling to high school simply ft from the subdivision.

Neighbors known as Troy police and had been informed to name county animal management or the Michigan Division of Pure Sources (DNR).

The DNR mentioned it was not their downside. Oakland County did too. Neighbors pushed again on Oakland County Animal Management and had been bounced round to varied numbers and voicemails.

“It was irritating as a result of nobody might appear to inform us what to do,” mentioned neighbor Beth Regner.

Somebody on the county informed neighbors to only let the animal go on its manner.

With youngsters shut by, that wasn’t an choice. They trapped it themselves with a rake and a canine crate and reached out to a pest management firm to come back to get the poor factor.

Native 4 known as the Oakland County Govt’s Workplace, which instantly began investigating what occurred.

Usually animal management doesn’t reply to raccoons. Nevertheless, if the animal is harmful to individuals, particularly kids, they’ll and may come out.

Oakland County is attending to the underside of the communication downside.

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